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Lana Hostetler (died February 4, 1999) was an educator and activist.


Life

Hostetler was an activist in the 1960s for civil rights and an activist in the 1970s for women’s rights. Beginning in 1970, she was also an early childhood education professor at
Lincoln Land Community College Lincoln Land Community College is a public community college in Springfield, Illinois. It has extended branches in different locations, including Beardstown, Jacksonville, Litchfield and Taylorville, Illinois. The main campus is less than half ...
. In the early 1980s she served as President of the Illinois Association for the Education of Young Children. She later served as president of the
National Association for the Education of Young Children The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a large nonprofit association in the United States representing early childhood education teachers, para-educators, center directors, trainers, college educators, families o ...
. Beginning in 1992, she was a lobbyist for the gay rights group Illinois Federation for Human Rights, which she co-founded. The organization is now called
Equality Illinois Equality Illinois (EI) was founded in 1991 to work towards building a better Illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy, and protection of the rights of the LGBT community. Structure The Equality Illinois ...
.


Death and remembrance

Hostetler died at the age of 57, on February 4, 1999, in Memorial Medical Center. There was a fire at her home and she died of smoke inhalation. She was inducted into the
Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame The Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame (formerly Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame) is an institution founded in 1991 to honor persons and entities who have made significant contributions to the quality of life or well-being of the LGBT community in Chic ...
in 2021.


References

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