Nicole Murray-Ramirez
Activist
San Diego, Calif.

Nicole Murray-Ramirez is currently the international president of the International Court System, one of the oldest and largest predominantly gay organizations in the world. With chapters in 68 cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico, the court raises money for charity through large annual balls and numerous smaller fundraisers each year. Murray-Ramirez, a San Diego city commissioner, is serving his second term as the first elected chairman of the city of San Diego’s Human Relations Commission. The first elected chairman of the mayor’s advisory board and the chief of police’s advisory board, Murray-Ramirez is also the current chair of the 51st congressional advisory board and past state chair of Equality California. The only gay activist to have been elected to all four past national LGBT marches on Washington, he was elected national chair of Stonewall 25 and the Millennium March on Washington, and he is the past national chair of the National Lesbian/Gay Latino Organization (LLEGO) and served on the national executive board of the then-Human Rights Campaign Fund. Murray-Ramirez has received the key to the city of San Diego and the Cesar Chavez Humanitarian Award as well as lifetime achievement awards from the Latino Unity Coalition, San Diego GLBT Pride and the Asian/Pacific Islander Community AIDS Project.

Last Updated: 5-16-07

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