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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
JOANNE E. TRAPANI, IN MEMORIAM
WHEREAS, Almighty God in His infinite wisdom called Joanne E. Trapani from our midst on November 29, 2020; and
WHEREAS, Joanne Trapani was the loving wife of Mary Becker; and
WHEREAS, Joanne Trapani, born in Corona, Queens, New York on August 5, 1949, was the beloved daughter of the late Joseph Trapani and Mary Horvath Trapani; and
WHEREAS, Joanne Trapani was the dear sister of Dolores Delape; and
WHEREAS, Joanne Trapani was the adored aunt and great-aunt of many; and
WHEREAS, Joanne Trapani received her bachelor's and two master's degrees from New York University and spent a number of years working on Wall Street at various financial institutions; and
WHEREAS, Joanne Trapani began her LGBT activism shortly before the Stonewall Riots in 1969. She was a member of New York City's Gay Activist Alliance, Mattachine Society board of director's member, Lesbian Feminist Liberation founding member, and Manhattan Women's Political Caucus member; and
WHEREAS, after a decade of New York City political activism, Joanne Trapani relocated to Illinois and co-chaired the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force for several terms, served as liaison to state and local governments and agencies, and was involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy; and
WHEREAS, in 1997, Joanne Trapani won a seat on the Oak Park village board, becoming the first out lesbian elected to office in Illinois; and
WHEREAS, in 2001, Joanne Trapani was elected Oak Park village president and served a four-year term; and
WHEREAS, Joanne Trapani worked for the Cook County Commission on Human Rights at the outset of that office's creation in 1993 until she retired in 2011, and served as liaison to and an advocate for the lesbian and gay communities of Cook County; and
WHEREAS, Joanne Trapani organized testimony for and lobbied in behalf of the Illinois Human Rights Amendment to include lesbians and gays as a protected class; she also worked for passage of the...
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