Celebrating the life of the first openly gay elected official in the former Confederacy, a champion of civil rights and the environment, and the Mayor of Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, N.C. >>JoeHerzenberg.org<<
"Mr. Herzenberg...loved gathering with his friends, listening to Mozart and operas and talking about politics."
- "Franklin Street's unofficial mayor remembered," Chapel Hill Herald, 11/16/07
Photos courtesy of Debbie Herzenberg, Kathie Young, Mark Donahue, and Erik Ose
The organizing that grew out of Lightning and Joe's efforts to form a gay Democratic club in Orange County led to a meeting of approximately twenty activists from across the state on March 27, 1983 at the N.C. Gay and Lesbian Conference in Chapel Hill, and the subsequent founding of the Lesbian and Gay Democrats of North Carolina.
- Jonathan Courtland, a friend of Joe Herzenberg, at a memorial service celebrating the former town councilman's life, on Herzenberg's habit of sending postcards from his world travels to his friends.
