Pat Hussain
Pat Hussain, born in 1950, grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, attending segregated schools. She has been both a Southern debutante and a Marine. She has been a community organizer since she started stuffing envelopes for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in high school. She cofounded Southerners on New Ground (SONG).
Pat Hussain cofounded Atlanta GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), served on the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force board, and worked on the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in Washington, D.C. She served as the Grand Marshall of the first gay pride parade in Knoxville, Tennessee.
In 1996, Pat Hussain led the Olympics Out of Cobb campaign that kept the Olympic volleyball competition out of Cobb County, Georgia, due to that county having passed an anti-gay resolution. In recent years, health issues have kept her from the activism she does so well. She and her wife Cherry have now been together thirty years.
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Pat Hussain, SLFA, edited transcript: http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/SW93Supplement/Hussain
Outwords interview with Pat Hussain (video with transcript):
https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/subjectdetail/pat-hussain