my first taste of activism came in college at vanderbilt university, when i was part of a group of students who started the first lesbian and gay organization on campus, vanderbilt lambda.
once in new orleans, i quickly became involved in a local chapter of the fledgling street activist group queer nation, which did direct actions to give voice to lgbtq concerns, as well as act up, a direct action aids awareness group. a few years later, i helped form a new orleans outpost of the lesbian avengers, also a direct action group working on lesbian visibility. in this same timeframe (early 90s), i was one of the founding organizers of the lesbian and gay community center of new orleans, and served on its first board of directors.
later, the momentum of the lesbian avengers would be picked up again by the new orleans dyke march, which i was an integral member of from 1998 through 2006.
