Virginia M. Apuzzo
(1941 - living) U.S.A.
Activist and politician
Adviser to Governor Mario Cuomo, former head of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Assistant to President Bill Clinton for Management and Administration; at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, she co-authored the first lesbian and gay civil rights plank ever adopted by a major American political party; former executive deputy commissioner of the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal; former commissioner of the New York State Civil Service; former director of the National Gay Task Force:
"What we have to acknowledge is that our own passivity has given the opposition a free rein to the loudest voices...We are the last acceptable prejudice, and we've got to say that intolerance is intolerable."
Quote source: Rutledge, Leigh. Unnatural Quotations
Photo source: http://tps.studentorg.wisc.edu/TPS/mblgtcc/headliners/virginia_apuzzo_bio.html
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