Earlier this year I lost a dear friend, V Kingsley, from cancer.
Just a few days ago, we lost another amazing LGBT leader, Paula Ettelbrick, also from cancer.
It wasn’t so long ago that Lisa Tonna and I were working to finalize a book on how to run an LGBT tobacco cessation group, little did we know she, a nonsmoker, would die of lung cancer herself just a year later, at the age of 38. Now I struggle as two other lesbian friends are diagnosed with cancer, both near my age.