Janet Weinberg

Janet Inez Weinberg (April 3, 1955 – September 1, 2018) was an American LGBTQ activist, advocate for people with HIV/AIDS and advocate for disability rights, based in New York City. She was a fund-raiser and executive for social service organizations including Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), Educational Alliance, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center.

Weinberg in her later years helped on major projects to mark LGBTQ history in the United States including the Stonewall National Monument, the nation's first monument of LGBT rights and history, the New York City AIDS Memorial, and an effort to create the first national LGBTQ museum.

Early life and education Janet Inez Weinberg was born in Manhattan April 3, 1955, to Esther Hariton Weinberg and father Herbert. She was made vice-president in 1998 of VTA's parent company, Years later she still remembered a 1985 incident in Rockaway Beach, Queens when the local community “erupted” in anger to shut down a proposal to house homeless dying AIDS patients in a nursing home instead of hospitals. “They were never allowed to enter the nursing home,” she said, the city leaders bowed to “homophobia and hatred.” She became disabled herself in the 1980s due to an illness, and from then required a wheelchair. and then becoming Chief Operations Officer (COO), and briefly serving as Chief Executive Officer until she left in 2014. in 2008 they had 45,000 participants raising $7.4 million. She first worked for the organization as a consultant, then was hired as Executive Vice President for Programs and Operations. The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history, while The Wall's unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Personal life Weinberg was Jewish; she joined Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world's largest LGBTQ synagogue in 1992.

In August 2011 Weinberg married her longtime partner Roz Richter, an associate justice on the New York State Appellate Division's First Branch bench in Manhattan, two months after same-sex marriage in New York was legalized.