William Henderson April 24, 2008
Diego Sanchez Excited To Deliver Keynote at Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast
http://www.innewsweekly.com/innews/?class_code=Ne&article_code=5307 Called a "historic" choice to deliver this year's Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast keynote address, Diego Sanchez could say that much of his life — which he sums up simply as one of trail-blazing advocacy centering around GLBT issues, people with or at risk for HIV/AIDS and the Latino community — has led him to this moment.
He is director of public relations and external affairs at AIDS Action Committee (which organizes the Breakfast, now in its 19th year, each year), public relations director for the Washington, D.C.-based AIDS Action Council, and an at-large delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Committee platform committee, the first transgender person ever appointed by a DNC Chair to that standing committee.
He worked with the Boston Public Health Commission in 2000 to draft the first formal inclusion of transgender people into its homeless shelters, and he trained staff from those shelters to realize the city's protocol. He directed the nation's first transgender health care access program at JRI Health. And last month he offered testimony on behalf of HB 1722.
