Smallwood Funeral Draws Hundreds
Local LGBT community bids farewell to a ''icon''

by Yusef Najafi
Published on April 22, 2010, 2:34am

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Hundreds filled the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on Monday, April 19, to say farewell to a pioneer: Charlotte Smallwood.

''The community has lost an icon,'' said transgender activist Earline Budd, speaking to Metro Weekly shortly after the service. ''Not just the LGBT community, but also the D.C. housing community. She was involved in many different organizations and she was phenomenal.''

The 73-year-old lesbian activist died one week earlier, on April 12, from brain cancer.