Mandy Carter

Mandy Carter is an American black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activist.

Career Carter is a former executive director and one of the six co-founders of the North Carolina–based Southerners On New Ground (SONG). Founded at the 1993 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's (NGLTF) Creating Change Conference in Durham, North Carolina, SONG integrates work against homophobia into freedom struggles in the South. She sits on the boards and/or advisory committees of Durham's Ladyslipper Music, Equality Michigan, Vermont-based Kopkind Colony,

In 2012, along with Chicana historian Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez and peace activist Matt Meyer, Carter co-edited We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America, which Maya Angelou called "so needed...in this age and this climate of political posturing and posing."

Honors Carter was given the 2006 Spirit of Justice Award from Boston's Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) for her work on LGBT civil rights in the United States. At the 2008 NGLTF's Creating Change Conference in Detroit she received the $10,000 Anderson Prize Foundation's Susan J. Hyde Longevity Award.