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Name
  
Carole LaFavor

Role
  
Novelist

Died
  
November 21, 2011


Books
  
Evil Dead Center, Along the Journey River

Nominations
  
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Carole S. LaFavor was an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse. She was a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995–1997 and a founding member of Positively Native, an organisation that supports Native American people with HIV/AIDS. She was featured in Mona Smith's 1988 film Her Giveway about her experiences as a person living with AIDS. Her two novels, Along the Journey River and Evil Dead Center were both published by Firebrand Books and her essay "Walking the Red Road" appears in the anthology Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS edited by Andrea Rudd and Darien Taylor.

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Personal life

She was born in Minnesota on February 12, 1948.

LaFavor was Two-Spirit and Lesbian identified.

Death

LaFavor died on November 21, 2011.

References

Carole LaFavor Wikipedia