LGBT and HIV/AIDS Communities Comment On Taylor's Passing

Today, the world and the LGBT community lost a hero of note. Dame ElizaBeth Taylor (1932 - 2011) was a constant and vocal supporter of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the fight against HIV/AIDS. She was the first major celebrity to champion the rights and dignity of those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

The Washington Blade, the Washington, DC based newspaper of record for over 40 years for the LGBT and allied community, is putting up a tribute to the late Dame ElizaBeth Taylor. The Washington Blade covered the 1993 visit and dedication of the ElizaBeth Taylor Medical Center, part of the Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, D.C. Editor Kevin Naff is available for interviews to discuss the impact and special place that Dame Taylor had within the LGBT and HIV/AIDS community.

The Washington Blade was founded in 1969 as a black and white, one-sheet community newsletter distributed in D.C.-area bars. In October 2009, the Blade celebrated its 40th anniversary as an award-winning news source with a large following in print and online. Readers locally and around the world have come to rely on the Blade's unmatched coverage of LGBT news, earning the paper the moniker "the newspaper of record for the LGBT community. You can read the Washington Blade online at: www.washingtonblade.com . You can also follow the Washington Blade on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/washingtonblade or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/washingtonblade.