Meet Angie Brown

Angie Brown (she/her) is a lesbian Louisiana native who returned two years ago after 30 years of being away. She has a lot of passions including football, cooking, writing lesbian fan fiction and the singer Pink who she’s seen eight times live. Angie loves nature, water and animals(she has three rescue cats who she raises with best friend Wendy Eveland) and will never pass up an opportunity to learn something new. A really cool fact about her (that I only know because she casually let it slip in conversation) is that she was a part of ACT UP in the late 80s/early 90s. For younger members in the group, ACT UP is an incredibly important political activist group dedicated to ending the AIDS crisis. They changed the way pharmaceutical companies and the government researched AIDS medications, stopped the catholic church from preventing condom distribution in New York schools, made clean needle swaps legal in New York and changed the way Queer people living with AIDs were presented in the media. Angie’s chapter of ACT UP participated in protests and assisted local synagogues with their Holocaust Memorials while wearing pink triangles to represent LGBTQ individuals murdered by the Nazis. 

Angie is an incredibly warm, charismatic and awesome human. You can find her at the Fresh Market where she is a baker or at her favorite restaurants with patios including Mortons, The Chimes and the Beach House.  

Thank you Angie for your important work as a queer rights activist and for generally being a badass. Seeing you always brightens my day. ❤️