Sharon Herrera: Fort Worth’s ‘Fairy Gay Mother’
Sharon Herrera, left, and her wife, Marcel By Tammye Nash Fort Worth activist and advocate Sharon Herrera knows what it means to face adversity and just keep going.
She lived through growing up in Small Town, Texas, losing her mother at a young age and through the witch hunts that plagued LGBTQ+ servicemen and women in the 1980s and ’90s.
And she has survived threats to her job and even her life because of her activism on behalf of LGBTQ+ youth in Fort Worth and around North Texas.
Now, as she and others in the 1012 Leadership Coalition look ahead to the opening of The Fred Rouse Arts and Community Healing Center, Herrera’s own life is proof of what she tells the LGBTQ+ youth she works with: There is help and there is hope. Dallas Voice: Tell me about yourself–how you ended up in Fort Worth and about both your job and your volunteer work. Sharon Herrera: I was living in Austin, working for HEB Grocer and I had a nearly fatal car accident.
