As she told the story, the organizer claimed that the reasons the association had been turned away had nothing to do with homophobia. Vaid went to the Queens office of one of the parade organizers to make her case. In 1992, Urvashi Vaid, a thirty-three-year-old Indian American lesbian activist, was campaigning for the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association to be included in the annual India Day Parade in New York City.
