Activist, Blogger Barbara Wold Dies

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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Lesbian activist Barbara Wold, who wrote the blog Democracy in New Mexico, has died at age 63.

Wold died Sunday at her home in Albuquerque, her partner, Mary Ellen Broderick, told Chicago's Windy City Times. She had been diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer in September, but Broderick said, "I never expected her to pass away so suddenly."

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean encouraged Wold and Broderick to start the Web log. Wold worked as a technical writer but spent much of her spare time on the blog, covering LGBT issues such as marriage equality and "don't ask, don't tell." "She was a force to be reckoned with," Broderick told the Times. "I don't know that she knew what a big voice she had." Broderick, who said Dean called with condolences, intends to continue the blog.

A Chicago native and graduate of the University of Chicago, Wold relocated for a time to Boston, where she met Broderick in 1989, and the two had lived in Albuquerque since the early 1990s.