Remembering Urvashi Vaid, an LGBTQ activist who spent decades fighting for equality

Urvashi Vaid, then-executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, protests at then-President George H.W. Bush's address on AIDS in March 1990 in Arlington, Virginia. The pioneering LGBTQ activist and attorney died last week at age 63. (Dennis Cook/Associated Press)

Tributes are pouring in this week for Urvashi Vaid, an influential and beloved activist who fought for LGBTQ rights and other progressive social causes for more than four decades.

The author and attorney died at age 63 of cancer on Friday at her home in New York City. Her death was announced by organizations like the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the National LGBTQ Task Force, which she led at the height of the AIDS crisis.