Transitions.DIED: Marian Chapman, 58, an out lesbian attorney from Berkeley, Calif., who worked for equal rights for the state's gays and lesbians, of a heart attack, January 2. DIED: Jim Osgood, 71, a longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective Chicago gay rights advocate who headed the early gay group Mattachine Midwest in the 1960s and '70s, December 25. APPOINTED: John Lipp, an AIDS activist and consultant for nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. groups, as executive director of Pets Are Wonderful Support, an organization helping HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. patients keep their pets, January 5, HIRED: Elizabeth Birch Elizabeth Birch (born 1956, Dayton, Ohio) is an American attorney and former corporate executive who came to Washington in January of 1995 to head the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT organization. , former head of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, as senior adviser for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, January 8. |
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