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Melanie Nathan

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Melanie Nathan is a South African-born attorney, a mediator, equality activist, and human rights advocate, who advocates, speaks and writes on issues impacting LGBTI communities around the world, with a focus on the United States and Africa.[1] She immigrated to the U.S. in 1985. She publishes the LGBTI advocacy blog O-Blog-Dee-O-Blog-Da (Life goes on...). She is the executive director of the African Human Rights Coalition (African HRC). She was appointed a community grand marshal for San Francisco Pride 2014, in recognition of her global human rights advocacy work for LGBTI people.[2] She is also a director of the Peacemaker Museum World Tour.

She is co-producing Armagayddon, "a documentary that exposes the historical anti-gay crusades of right-wing movements and their influence on the Republican Party through a critical examination of national figures, social movements, and conservative organizations and think tanks, focusing on the anti-gay rhetoric and policies of the Republican Party, as well as the use of homosexuality as a political weapon and wedge issue."

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  1. ^ "oblogdeeoblogda.me". oblogdeeoblogda.me. February 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  2. ^ "SF Pride | Parade | Grand Marshals". Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.