Sandy Rapp
Sandy Rapp is a songwriter, activist, and author of God's Country: A
Case Against Theocracy: The Haworth Press; 1991. Her best known songs
are "Remember Rose: A Song For Choice," about the first back-street
abortion fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion cutoff (all editions
feature a guest vocal by the late Bella Abzug) and "Everyone Was At
Stonewall," a gay history, written for police sensitivity training,
which won StoneWall Society's Pride Song of 2004. Rapp was instrumental
in the passage of a number of gay civil rights laws on Long Island, NY.
Her CDs include We The People, Flag & The Rainbow, Still Marchin' and
Salute to the Veteran Feminists. Rapp's appearances include the
million-plus 2004 March For Women's Lives, the National Women's Music
Festival, National NOW Rallies in Seneca Falls, Manhattan, and
Washington, DC, National Women's Political Caucus Conferences, Gulf
Coast Womyn's Festival, Chicago's Autumnfest, New York State NOW
Conferences, Montana Pride Rally, Palm Springs' Gay Veterans,
Manhattan's Peoples Voice Cafe, the 2001 NOW March on DC, the Gay
Millenium March, the '03, '05, '06, 2010, and 2013 National NOW
Conferences, the 2005 Save The Court Rally in New York's Union Square,
the Molly Yard Memorial in DC's Hart Senate Office Building, and the
2009-2014 StoneWall Veterans' Reunions in NYC's GLBT Center. In 2006
Rapp received two OutMusic Award nominations and served as a Grand
Marshal of the Long Island Pride Parade. Rapp's premier of "Rise Up Ye
Women" at the NYU Law School was toasted in The New Yorker - 11/13/06;
and in 2010 Rapp won StoneWall Society's Pride in the Arts Lifetime
Achievement in Music Award. In 2008 Rapp sang several Clinton rallies
and wrote "She Will Rise" and "Walkin' Shoes" for a Hilllary Website.
In 2012 Rapp played the NYC Kate Millett Festival, the Lynn Buck
Memorial at Canio's of Sag Harbor, NY., and in 2013 the Front Lines of
Feminism event at the Wilton Manors, FL Pride Center, reviewed on the
VFA website. See Rapp's 2008 Seneca Falls, NY 160th Anniversary
performance of "Walkin' Shoes" at YouTube.com/SandyRapp.