Urvashi Vaid, a longtime LGBT civil rights activist and Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, has died from a prolonged battle with cancer. She was 63 years-old. Her groundbreaking and seminal 1996 book, ...
Her son, Anderson Cooper, the CNN journalist, confirmed her death in a broadcast. Cooper and Vanderbilt were both featured and talked about their lives in the 2016 HBO documentary Nothing Left Unsaid. “The last few ...