Courtney’s advocacy and educational efforts have always included outreach to communities of faith.Ĭlayton Delery (he, him) is most recently the author of Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBT+ Nonfiction. She currently serves with other long-time leaders on the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s LGBTQ fund and joins the fund’s visionary leaders’ efforts to support efforts to increase the equity of life for LGBTQ people and their families in the New Orleans area. ![]() At the same time, she lobbied the local PFLAG Chapter and the PFLAG National organization to expand their mission statement to include support, education and advocacy for transgender persons and their families. She actively advocated for and served in leadership positions in the efforts to include protections for gender identity in the City of New Orleans from 1995 to 1998, when the City Council passed the ordinance amending Chapter 86 of the Human Relations Code. She served on the Board of Directors for LAGPAC, Mayor Marc Morial’s LGBT Advisory Committee, and served on the local PFLAG Board of Directors for 22 years. Courtney Sharp (she, her) has been a transgender activist since the mid-1990s.
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