OBITUARY: Amber Hollibaugh
Amber Hollibaugh (Screen cap from a 2012 video interview by The Nation) Amber Hollibaugh, 77, activist, organizer, author of My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home and self-educated leading public intellectual in the LGBTQ, feminist, sexual liberation and economic justice movements, died suddenly of complications of diabetes in her home in Brooklyn on Oct.
20, 2023. She is survived by her life partner, award-winning novelist Jenifer Levin, and her stepsons Mak Levin and Van De Laurier.
Amber’s legacy is an integral part of the history of the modern LGBTQ and feminist movements. Her contributions were always visionary, as she worked at the intersections of sexual and economic inequality, LGBTQ and women’s health disparities.
Her legacy and long-term impact in progressive movements is inestimable, and her loss will be widely and deeply mourned throughout queer communities, and beyond.
