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Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ rights group, will hold its virtual Evening for Equality Wednesday, April 28, beginning at 6 p.m.
Pacific Time. Headlining the show will be Grammy Award-winning R&B, hip-hop, and soul singer-songwriter Estelle. Other entertainers include Peppermint, Justin Tranter, and Jake Wesley Rogers.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) will be a special guest. Lee, vice chair and founding member of Congress' LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, is a longtime ally of the queer community and has authored many bills around HIV/AIDS and other progressive issues.
Also appearing at the fundraiser will be lesbian state Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), vice chair of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, and Honey
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In a First, Asian-American Lesbian Confirmed to Ambassador-Level Post
press release described her as “a leading authority in international development policy with over 30 years of experience in the multi-disciplinary field that includes finance, technology, and the environment.”Wong has said she was inspired by the late Congressman John Lewis, a longtime civil rights leader. Lewis, she wrote in a Facebook post last year, “taught me about making good trouble but necessary trouble.” She accompanied Lewis on his annual visits to Selma, Ala., where he was beaten by police during a 1965 voting rights demonstration, and videotaped his appearances.Wong is founder of the Conference on APA Leadership, which encourages young Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders to pursue careers in public service. The LGBTQ Victory Institute, which advocated for Wong’s nomination and confirmation, issued a laudatory statement Tuesday.
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