Diane Sabin

Who is Diane Sabin?

Diane A. Sabin is a lesbian feminist activist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her early work was in production of lesbian musical performers as well as the San Francisco Pride stages. She founded Sabin Chiropractic, a successful community clinic in the Castro. She does activist work to improve the health of lesbians and the LGBT community through representation in the larger health care institutions and research.

Sabin is the Executive Director of the Lesbian Health & Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco as well as the Associate Director for the National Center of Excellence in Women's Health. She co-founded 100 Lesbians and Our Friends, a lesbian philanthropic community initiative, and serves on the board of directors for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and Woman Vision. She received the Astraea Philanthropic Activism Award in 2001.