Bryan Ball

Bryan Ball is an American LGBT civil rights activist, who serves as the president of the Democratic Party organization Stonewall Democrats of WNY.[1][2][3][4][5] [6] Ball also currently serves on 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's New York State leadership team.[7] In the 2016 Democratic Primary, Ball ran on candidate Hillary Clinton's slate of delegates in the 26th Congressional District. [8] In May 2016, Ball was elected at a meeting of the New York State Democratic Party’s Executive Committee to be a part of the NYS Democratic Delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. [9]

In June 2016, following the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, Ball spoke at a Vigil in the City of Buffalo’s Niagara Square, saying: ““There are not words to do justice for the incredible pain our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and allied communities – as well as our entire nation – have been dealt, but we will use words to try. We owe it to all who have been lost and all who have been left behind to always try.” [10] [11] [12]

Photo, Bryan Glenn Ball, April 2013, Buffalo, New York.

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