Roma Guy (born 1942) is an American LGBT- and women's-rights activist. She was born in Maine and earned a Masters in Social Work from the

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, after which she worked in Africa for nine years. She is openly lesbian. Roma and her partner Dianne moved to

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in the 1970s. They were two of

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's cofounders, and Roma was a cofounder of , SF Women Against Rape, and The Women's Foundation of California. Roma also advocated for women's access to health care in San Francisco. She served for twelve years on the Health Commission City and County of San Francisco. From 1994 to 2007 she worked as a professor in the Department of Health Education at

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. As of 2017 she is the director of the Bay Area Homelessness Program. In 2014 the San Francisco Health Commission adopted a "Resolution Recognizing the Life & Legacy of Roma Guy". In 2018 she was chosen by the

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as one of its honorees for

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in the United States.

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plays the younger Roma Guy and

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plays the older Roma Guy in the 2017 miniseries about

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rights called ''

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''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guy, Roma LGBT people from Maine American LGBT rights activists Lesbians Living people 1942 births