Sue Hyde
(? - living) U.S.A.
Activist, teacher, writer
For two decades, Sue Hyde has inspired and nurtured organizers and led community members to participate in democracy with the goal of securing freedom, justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people and their families.
Sue, as a staff member at National Gay and Lesbian Task Force since 1986, and as director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's annual Creating Change conference, has run other initiatives, traveling throughout the South organizing statewide groups, and serving as coordinator of the NGLTF's Fight the Right Project.
Sue is a community organizer and advocate whose issue portfolio at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has included repeal of sodomy laws, rescission of the militarys ban on openly gay, lesbian and bisexual service members, passage of local and state civil rights laws, training leaders to effectively oppose right-wing incursions in their communities, directing the annual Creating Change Conference sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and securing marriage equality for same-sex couples.
She is an accomplished public speaker, teacher and writer whose wit, wisdom and wry observations of politics in these United States frame a tireless dedication to community-building and an inexhaustible faith in our movement and its people. Sue was the recipient of the 2002 Stonewall Award in recognition of lifetime service to the LGBT political movement.
Sue lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her lover of 19 years and their two children.
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