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William Brandon Lacy Campos (1977 – November 9, 2012) was an American poet, writer, blogger, columnist, LGBT and HIV/AIDS activist. == Biography == Campos was born on August 31, 1977 in Duluth, Minnesota, to Deborah Carey Watt and William Edward Lacy. His great-great uncle was the Black historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the second Black man to be awarded a doctorate from Harvard University and the founder of Black History Month. He attended schools in Minneapolis and graduated from the Patrick Henry High School in 1995, where he was a member of the Student Council. He continued his education at the Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and the University of Minnesota where he received a bachelor's degree in political science. He was co-executive director of Queers for Economic Justice where he worked on LGBT issues of social justice in New York City. He was a board member of the Audre Lorde Project. He was also involved in supporting the Hetrick-Martin Institute. He had recently joined as a support, model and spokesman for Volttage.com, a dating site aimed at eliminating stigma and providing support to the HIV-positive community. He was also a founding member of the Lavender Greens, the Green Party LGBT Caucus. Prior to that he worked at the Center for Media Justice in Oakland. Campos was a regular presenter and participant at the National LGBT Task Force's annual Creating Change Conference. He co-chaired the United States Student Association's Queer Student Coalition. He was also a graduate of the Task Force Youth Leadership Training Institute in 1999. HIV-positive since his mid-20s, he spoke extensively about his serostatus, his experience and reflection as a man of colour, but also on his recovery from addiction, his love for food, love and political, social justice reflections on life. He described himself as "a poet, playwright, journalist, amateur chef and life commentator doing his bit to put his foot in the asses of the regressive masses, while putting filling and nutritious food on plates of folks that ain't got much and deserve better." Campos died on November 9, 2012, in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Brandon Lacy Campos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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