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Janet Weinberg was born on 3 April, 1955 in Manhattan, New York, USA, is an American LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS and disability activist. Discover Janet Weinberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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1955

Janet Inez Weinberg (April 3, 1955 - September 1, 2018) was an American LGBTQ activist, advocate for people with HIV/AIDS and advocate for disability rights, based in New York City.

She was a fund-raiser and executive for social service organizations including Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), Educational Alliance, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center.

Weinberg in her later years helped on major projects to mark LGBTQ history in the United States including the Stonewall National Monument, the nation's first monument of LGBT rights and history, the New York City AIDS Memorial, and an effort to create the first national LGBTQ museum.

Janet Inez Weinberg was born in Manhattan April 3, 1955, to Esther Hariton Weinberg and father Herbert.

She grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey, her mother Esther, a homemaker, died when Janet was three.

Herbert, a stockbroker, remarried to a woman named May, Janet has a brother Kenneth who is now a doctor.

Janet attended Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, and graduated from York College, City University of New York with an occupational therapy degree.

Weinberg started working at VTA Management Services (VTA), which provides contract rehabilitation therapy services in New York State, as an occupational therapist (OT) staff member. She mainly took care of children with “learning disabilities, traumatic injuries and neuromuscular diseases”.

Over a decade she rose to a role overseeing “the work of more than 1,000 other therapists”, and earned a reputation for her activism on behalf of people with HIV and disabilities.

1980

“They were never allowed to enter the nursing home,” she said, the city leaders bowed to “homophobia and hatred.” She also witnessed homophobia from medical staff firsthand in the 1980s during the height of the AIDS pandemic, although not HIV positive herself, she was an inpatient and the hospital staff refused to come into her room because she was lesbian.

She became disabled herself in the 1980s due to an illness, and from then required a wheelchair.

1985

Years later she still remembered a 1985 incident in Rockaway Beach, Queens when the local community “erupted” in anger to shut down a proposal to house homeless dying AIDS patients in a nursing home instead of hospitals.

1990

In the mid-1990s, while still working at VTA, she was hired to the board of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center (The center).

The center had made an offer, and she was looking for a transition to work serving “a population still affected by the AIDS epidemic”.

She worked for many years at The center as its development director.

At The center, she also served as co-chairwomen helping lead a $14 million fundraising renovating its Greenwich Village headquarters.

She was disabled and in a wheelchair, and utilized her experience to effect design changes as well as the organizations scope.

1998

She was made vice-president in 1998 of VTA's parent company, Symphony Health Services.

2005

In 2005 she was recruited to join Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), an AIDS service organization, becoming Senior Managing Director of Development and Legislative Funding (from 2005 to 2009), and then becoming Chief Operations Officer (COO), and briefly serving as Chief Executive Officer until she left in 2014.

At GMHC she was a “staunch and compassionate advocate” for people with HIV/AIDS and disabilities.

She also led programs helping the agencies’ thousands of clients with General Equivalency Degree diplomas, financial planning, and immigrant issues.

As the Senior Managing Director of Development and Legislative Funding her duties included public and private fundraising.

2008

Her work there included organizing for AIDS Walk New York, which chiefly benefits GMHC, it's the largest single-day AIDS fundraiser in the world, in 2008 they had 45,000 participants raising $7.4 million.

Weinberg secured GMHC's “first-ever federal appropriation” to mitigate crystal meth use among clients, total federal funding for that effort over time amounted to $1.8 million.

2012

In 2012 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, “relatively early, stage IIB, during a routine mammogram screening” which she said many lesbians don't get due to heteronormativity and homophobia, that after treatments and surgery went into remission.

At a memorial, Urvashi Vaid, who formerly led the National LGBTQ Task Force, talked about “the Breasties,” a breast cancer support group, “We hated the color pink and loved saying ‘fuck cancer.’” From her experience with breast cancer and talking with other lesbians who avoided healthcare for the same bias against them concerns, she became a “fierce breast cancer screening advocate“.

She intended to retire after her work with GMHC but took on consulting work for Educational Alliance (EA) “whose community centers serve 50,000 residents of the Lower East Side and the East Village”.

2014

Her last job, from 2014 to 2018, was as executive vice-president at EA, a Jewish legacy organization started in the 1880s that provides multi-generational programs and services in education, health and wellness, arts and culture, and civic engagement across fifteen sites and a network of five community centers.

She first worked for the organization as a consultant, then was hired as Executive Vice President for Programs and Operations.

One of her biggest tasks was to oversee construction of a center for addiction services and recovery, EA had a large hole in the ground for ten years.

Alan van Cappelle, EA's president, said, “Fill the hole and build the center.

2016

She lived it and breathed it,” with the center opening in 2016.

In later years she was part of major projects to mark LGBTQ history in the United States including the effort to create the Stonewall National Monument, the nation's first monument of LGBT rights and history, designated by President Barack Obama in June 2016.

She also served on the board of the New York City AIDS Memorial, which honors the city's 100,000 citizens who died of AIDS, their carers and activists, that was opened on World AIDS Day on December 1, 2016.

She was also central in an effort to create the first national LGBTQ museum.

Weinberg received “numerous awards from the NYC Board of Education, local political clubs, and professional organizations honoring her many years of service in the nonprofit sector”.

2017

She “dramatically” expanded the organization's mental health and substance abuse programs resulting in a dedicated clinic being opened in 2017.

As COO she helped “secure over $10.8 million in new grants to expand GMHC's core services”.

2018

She died on September 1, 2018, from a chronic heart condition at 63 years old.

2019

In June 2019, Weinberg was one of the inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes” inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument (SNM) in New York City's Stonewall Inn.