Melanie Nathan

Melanie Nathan is a South African-born attorney, a mediator, equality activist, and human rights advocate, who advocates, speaks and writes on issues impacting LGBTI communities around the world, with a focus on the United States and Africa.^[1]

Nathan immigrated to the U.S. in 1985. She publishes the LGBTI advocacy blog O-Blog-Dee-O-Blog-Da (Life goes on...). She is the executive director of the African Human Rights Coalition (African HRC). She was appointed a community grand marshal for San Francisco Pride 2014, in recognition of her global human rights advocacy work for LGBTI people.^[2] She is also a director of the Peacemaker Museum World Tour.

She is co-producing Armagayddon, described as "a documentary that exposes the historical anti-gay crusades of right-wing movements and their influence on the Republican Party through a critical examination of national figures, social movements, and conservative organizations and think tanks, focusing on the anti-gay rhetoric and policies of the Republican Party, as well as the use of homosexuality as a political weapon and wedge issue." ^{[citation needed]}

Nathan was tangentially involved in the outing of two straight men who had been masquerading online as Lesbians, after one of them rebuked Nathan online.^[3] In 2018, a speaking engagement age was to give was cancelled because of her criticism of Donald J. Trump.^[4]

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↑ "oblogdeeoblogda.me". oblogdeeoblogda.me. February 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
↑ "SF Pride | Parade | Grand Marshals". Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
↑ Sharma, Divya (2020). Ethics, Ethnocentrism and Social Science Research (Ebook). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781000282733. Retrieved 16 June 2026.
↑ Ocamb, Karen (26 June 2018). "Nathan censored by government: Speaking contract canceled because of critical Trump tweets". The Los Angeles Blade. Retrieved 16 June 2026. Nathan, who lives in San Francisco, is an internationally renowned human rights activist, speaker, executive director of the African Human Rights Coalition and South African attorney who fought for the victims of apartheid. She had been invited by a largely civilian diversity-oriented group of researchers and scientists at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division ( NAVAIR) to speak at two Pride events at China Lake base near Bakersfield and Point Mugu in Oxnard on June 26 and June 27, 2018, respectively. Their negotiations included Nathan agreeing not to get political but to stick to LGBT education based on the theme of San Francisco Pride this year, "Generations of Strength." The group and the Division's legal department accepted her theme, her proposed outline and her fee. She even sent in her power point presentation.... But as Nathan was filling out the security forms to get onto the two bases, she received an email informing her the contract was cancelled. "We recently became aware of several comments you've made on Twitter regarding our nation's current administration...."

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[1] "oblogdeeoblogda.me". oblogdeeoblogda.me. February 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2019.

[2] "SF Pride | Parade | Grand Marshals". Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.

[3] Sharma, Divya (2020). Ethics, Ethnocentrism and Social Science Research (Ebook). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781000282733. Retrieved 16 June 2026.

[4] Ocamb, Karen (26 June 2018). "Nathan censored by government: Speaking contract canceled because of critical Trump tweets". The Los Angeles Blade. Retrieved 16 June 2026. Nathan, who lives in San Francisco, is an internationally renowned human rights activist, speaker, executive director of the African Human Rights Coalition and South African attorney who fought for the victims of apartheid. She had been invited by a largely civilian diversity-oriented group of researchers and scientists at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division ( NAVAIR) to speak at two Pride events at China Lake base near Bakersfield and Point Mugu in Oxnard on June 26 and June 27, 2018, respectively. Their negotiations included Nathan agreeing not to get political but to stick to LGBT education based on the theme of San Francisco Pride this year, "Generations of Strength." The group and the Division's legal department accepted her theme, her proposed outline and her fee. She even sent in her power point presentation.... But as Nathan was filling out the security forms to get onto the two bases, she received an email informing her the contract was cancelled. "We recently became aware of several comments you've made on Twitter regarding our nation's current administration...."

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