Posted on 09/08/2007 10:58:49 AM PDT by khnyny
SUMMARY: Diagnosed in June with acute myeloid leukemia, the activist and documentarian of many Washington gay rights campaigns dies Tuesday at 49.
Washington, D.C., lesbian activist Cheryl Ann Spector died Tuesday after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia. She was 49.
She was diagnosed with the disease in June and hospitalized for 10 weeks with two rounds of chemotherapy, the Washington Blade reported.
Spector sat on the board of directors for the Rainbow History Project and was an LGBT activist for 20 years, involved with the Human Rights Campaign, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Queer Nation and the Mautner Project, among others.
According to the Blade, Spector came out in 1982 and began documenting the gay rights movement, including the first AIDS candlelight vigil in 1983. She was a key coordinator for the 1987 and 1993 marches on Washington.
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The intersting part about this news story is that nowhere in the entire piece do they mention that Ms. Spector worked for the CIA. She was an executive secretary and had worked for the agency since 2000.
Spector was a Spook, eh?
So THAT’S what went wrong at the CIA! The truth is out!!!
Yep.
Here’s an even better link.
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=22790
From an article:
Spector had been employed at the CIA as an executive secretary. Remarked Kameny, “Over the years one of the issues I became an authority on was security clearances for gay people.”
Added Kameny, “The CIA was the worst of the holdout agencies. There is now an active, open group of gay employees.”
Shhh! Didn't you learn anything from Scooter Libby's prosecution? She's covert, classified and still working undercover -- or, more accurately, underground.
You joined in order to give FR a bad name?
Man...folks are dropping like flies these days. I hope and pray she was saved by Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Her name was her destiny.
Rest in peace.
I was researching DC crime, and noticed that the DC Police Force has a separate Gay & Lesbian Unit, AND a separate hate crimes unit. It’s no wonder crime is so high there, they’ve stopped protecting normal people.
My Mother was an Executive Secretary for General Electric, they were feared, they had control of the files and their own staff. If you had a pimple on your Butt they knew it, Executives came and went but they stayed, promoting those they liked, in a way, and damning those they did not.
RIP.
I think sometimes that it’s more interesting to note the obscure stories, than to pay attention to the front page news. Also, it’s important to notice what’s not said in a story as that can be the most integral point.
To give everyone an anology - in art, the empty space is just as important as what the artist is trying to draw or paint, in fact, the so-called empty space can define the whole scene. Sorry to go off on an esoteric tangent, but I think you get the idea, lol.
Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12968 which enabled gay citizens to obtain security clearances. Who knew?
That’s “analogy”.
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