Lana Hostetler | |
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| Born | 1941 (1941) |
| Died | February 4, 1999(1999-02-04) (aged 57–58) Springfield, Illinois, U.S. |
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Lana Hostetler (died February 4, 1999) was an educator and activist.[1]
Hostetler was an activist in the 1960s for civil rights and an activist in the 1970s for women's rights.[2] Beginning in 1970, she was also an early childhood education professor atLincoln Land Community College.[1]
In the early 1980s she served as President of the Illinois Association for the Education of Young Children.[2] She later served as president of theNational Association for the Education of Young Children.[1]
Beginning in 1992, she was a lobbyist for the gay rights group Illinois Federation for Human Rights,[1][2] which she co-founded.[3] The organization is now calledEquality Illinois.[4][5]
Hostetler died at the age of 57, on February 4, 1999, inMemorial Medical Center.[2] There was a fire at her home and she died of smoke inhalation.[1][6]
She was inducted into theChicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2021.[7]