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
Greensboro News and Record, July 28, 1990
An Orange County group is moving closer to establishing a home for AIDS patients, and organizers say they hope to get a better reception than the last time they proposed the idea.
"This house could go in any neighborhood," said Joseph Herzenberg, a member of the town council and of the Orange County AIDS task force. "It's my hope that neighbors anywhere would treat people living in this home as neighbors."
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- 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.
