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Adrian Shanker

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Gay and Lesbian, Nonfiction, Memoir

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Adrian Shanker is an award-winning activist and organizer whose career has centered on advancing progress for the LGBT community. He has worked as an arts fundraiser, labor organizer, marketing manager, and served as President of Equality Pennsylvania for three years before founding Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, PA, where he serves as executive director. An accomplished organizer, Adrian has led numerous successful campaigns to advance LGBT progress through municipal nondiscrimination and relationship recognition laws and laws to protect LGBT youth from conversion therapy. A specialist in LGBT health policy, he has developed leading-edge health promotion campaigns to advance health equity through behavioral, clinical ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 239 ratings · 58 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health by Adrian Shanker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel L. Levine (Foreword), Kate Kendell (Afterword) 4.37 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies by Scott Branson (Editor), Mimi Thi Nguyen (Foreward), Bry Reed (Editor) 3.55 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic by Adrian Shanker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rea Carey (Foreword by) 3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Coexistence: Stories

by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Goodreads Author)

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Catrachos: Poems

by Roy G. Guzmán

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Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America

by Chris Murphy

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