Penny Campbell was born in 1953 to two Civil Rights activists. She was a graduate of Vanderbilt Peabody College and Vanderbilt Divinity School. She organized the Tennessee group that marched at the second annual March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987. The following year, she helped to organize the first Nashville pride parade. Campbell was the lead plaintiff in Campbell v. Sundquist (1996), represented by Abby Rubenfeld, which overturned a Tennessee law criminalizing consensual, sexual acts between same-sex adults. For many years she was the director of residential services at the Park Center in Nashville which provides housing and recovery assistance to those suffering from mental illness. Campbell passed away in 2014 at the age of 61.
Penny Campbell
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Penny Campbell was born in 1953 to two Civil Rights activists. She was a graduate of Vanderbilt Peabody College and Vanderbilt Divinity School. She organized the Tennessee group that marched at the second annual March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987. The following year, she helped to organize the first Nashville pride parade. Campbell was the lead plaintiff in Campbell v. Sundquist (1996), represented by Abby Rubenfeld, which overturned a Tennessee law criminalizing consensual, sexual acts between same-sex adults. For many years she was the director of residential services at the Park Center in Nashville which provides housing and recovery assistance to those suffering from mental illness. Campbell passed away in 2014 at the age of 61.