In the colorful world of GLBT activists around the world, few are as colorfully all wrapped up into one package as bisexual author, professor and activist Loraine Hutchins, who was honored Wednesday night (Oct. 21) as part of Washington, D.C.'s Community Pioneers.
She was one of 20 activists (and the only bisexual) to be honored this year, along with prestigious company such as poetessValerie Papaya Mann of the Sapphire Sapphos, Rick Rosendall, who helped organize the Gay Men's Chorus in Washington, civil rights lawyer Mindy Danielsand Toni Collins who co-founded the Transgender Health Empowerment, the first social services agency of its kind. Others in this honored group include the late and loud Jim Zais, who was one of the first openly gay men appointed to a governmental position in Washington, as well as Dr. Theo Hodge Jr., a black doctor who helped educated the community about HIV/AIDS and Randy Shulman who founded the gay magazine Metro Weekly....
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