winterbadger | (no subject)

I was horrified to learn earlier this morning that a friend of mine died quite suddenly of cancer this morning. She had fought through a bout before, and had come through OK, though only after great pain and hardship. Apparently there was a sudden resurgence of it in the last few months, and it carried her off very quickly.

She was a very much larger-than-life person, acerbic, loud, honest, outspoken, a gay rights and anti-AIDS activist. I don't believe she had a partner at the moment, though I feel rather bad that I don't know for sure.

There's an obit in the Washington Blade, I'm glad to see. I'm very proud to have been a friend of hers.

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My condolences. She seems to have done good things with the time she had.

How did you know Cheryl Spector? I heard of her a few months ago when a fire destroyed her house and the local LGBT archives she was keeping there. Various local lesbian groups held fundraisers for her. She sounded like an interesting person, but I didn't recognize her name.

Where did you two cross paths?