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Employee Press Union Scrapbook City
Hall tribute to Regina Shavers
LAGIC members
joined with family and friends at City Hall June 18 as City Council Speaker Christine
Quinn, council member Rosie Mendez and state Sen. Thomas Duane honored the late
Regina Shavers.
A council proclamation cited Shavers for her tremendous
contributions to the LGBT community in New York City. At the ceremony were
LAGIC Chair Judith Arroyo, president of Public Health Nurses and Epidemiologists
Local 436, and the Rev. Janyce Jackson, Shavers life partner.
Shavers,
who died in February 2008, was a founding member of DC 37s Lesbian and Gay
Issues Committee, the AFL-CIOs Pride At Work, and the founder and director
of the Griot Circle.
After retiring in 2000 from a long and varied city
career in DC 37 locals 1549, 371, and 768, Shavers initiated the Griot Circle
to provide a community-based social service organization to respond to the needs
of older lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people of all colors. The
Circle offered educational forums, social service referrals, health and fitness
programs, social outreach and more.
This work was part of Shavers
lifelong commitment to advocacy, education and activism for her community. The
Queers for Economic Justice group called her a life force and a shining
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