Amber Hollibaugh
Senior Strategist

Amber Hollibaugh, senior strategist, comes to the Task Force from SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) where she served as the director of education, advocacy and community building. (SAGE is the first national organization dedicated to providing services and advocacy for LGBT seniors.) For many years, she created innovative National HIV and AIDS programs and was the first director of the Lesbian AIDS Project at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). A well-known activist, artist, writer and community organizer, Hollibaugh has been working on cutting edge issues of the LGBT liberation movement since its beginnings in 1969. She is author of My Dangerous Desires: a Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home. She also co-produced and directed The Heart of the Matter, a documentary about women's sexuality and HIV risk, which won the 1994 Sundance Festival Freedom of Expression Award and ran on the PBS series, P.O.V. Hollibaugh is on the advisory panel of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, is a board member of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) and is a founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice.