Paula Ettelbrick, a long-time LGBT activist, died today at the age of 56 after battling ovarian cancer.
Etteblrick was most recently Executive Director of the Stonewall Community Foundation in New York, but her former positions included executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, legal director at Lambda Legal, family policy director at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and co-founder and the first co-chair of the Federation of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Organizations, now the Equality Federation.
She was also the mother of three, the Washington Blade reminds us.
Almost every major LGBT organization in the country has issued a statement with their remembrances and condolences. Karen Ocamb at LGBT POV has compiled a number of them.
My thoughts are with her family, as well as all of us she touched, directly or indirectly, through her work.