Late gay ambassador Hormel among 2022 Stonewall Inn honorees
The late gay U.S. ambassador James C. Hormel is the latest San Francisco resident and LGBTQ leader to be named to the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at the Stonewall Inn in New York City.
He will be officially added to the list along with the four other 2022 inductees during a ceremony at the historic gay bar in late June.Hormel, a philanthropist and the first openly LGBT person to represent the United States as an ambassador, died August 13 at the age of 88.
He served as the ambassador to Luxembourg from 1999 to 2001 under former President Bill Clinton.Pioneering Indian American LGBTQ leader, attorney, and author Urvashi Vaid is also being inducted.
Vaid, the first female executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, died May 14 at the age of 63."They were always authentic, genuine, and down to earth, and had time for everyone," said gay San Diego city commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez. "Sometimes people achieve a status that is pretty high and they change.
