Sandy
@sandyrapp
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Wainscott, NY USA
Joined Dec 12, 2006
Sandy Rapp is a songwriter, activist, and author of God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy. Her best known songs are "Remember Rose: A Song For Choice," about the first back-street abortion fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion cutoff (all editions feature a guest vocal by the late Bella Abzug) and "Everyone Was At Stonewall," a gay history, written for police sensitivity training, which won StoneWall Society's Pride Song of 2004. Rapp was instrumental in the passage of a number of gay civil rights laws on Long Island, NY. Her CDs include We The People, Flag & The Rainbow, Still Marchin' and Salute to the Veteran Feminists. Rapp's appearances include the million-plus 2004 March For Women's Lives, the National Women's Music Festival, National NOW Rallies in Seneca Falls, Manhattan, and Washington, DC, National Women's Political Caucus Conferences, Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival, Chicago's Autumnfest, New York State NOW Conferences, Montana Pride Rally, Palm Springs' Gay Veterans, Manhattan's Peoples Voice Cafe, the 2001 NOW March on DC, the Gay Millennium March, the '03, '05, '06, 2010, and 2013 National NOW Conferences, the 2005 Save The Court Rally in New York's Union Square, the Molly Yard Memorial in DC's Hart Senate Office Building, and the 2009-2018 StoneWall Veterans' Reunions in NYC's GLBT Center. Rapp's premier of "Rise Up Ye Women" at the NYU Law School was toasted in The New Yorker - 11/13/06; and in 2010 Rapp won StoneWall Society's Lifetime Achievement Award.
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