Background
Spector was born in Lakewood, New Jersey, and raised in Toms River, New Jersey.
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Cheryl Spector
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Education
She attended American University and worked in broadcast television, doing public affairs work for nonprofit organizations before becoming an executive secretary at the Central Intelligence Agency in 2000.
Career
She began by volunteering at the 1987 and 1993 Marches on Washington, and served as Grand Marshal of the District of Columbia Gay Pride Parade in 1998. She co-founded the group Oppression Under Target in the late 1980s. The group distributes safe-sex kits to women.
In 1990, she worked with ACT-Uttar Pradesh to prevent the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus through infected drug needles.
In 2004, she was awarded the "Distinguished Service Award" from the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, Incorporated. (GLAA)
Spector was known for her photography of District of Columbia gay events and people, including the community"s first Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome candlelight vigil in 1983.
Unfortunately, many of her videos and photographs were lost in an apartment fire shortly before her death. She had intended to leave the materials to the Rainbow History Project, which filed for a grant to clean and restore the remaining materials.
She was also an occasional guest on Washington, District of Columbia"s Don and Mike Show, usually reporting on gay pride events in the area.
She died on September 4, 2007 from myeloid leukemia.
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