From his entire family, thank you, Andy, for the blessings that you, as many people were.
LGBTQ recognized health and transgender activist Andrew Cray died of cancer - a flow of paid support once news of this to the public loss.
His wife Sarah McBride:
With an incredible amount of sadness that I post this. Our Andy died at 15:30 clock today, surrounded by his family. The outpouring of love for Andy - in person, through social networks and through texts and calls - is a great reminder of the incredible impact he had on so many lives. He had a warm heart to the end, always put the feelings and needs of others before his own. It has more than his 28 years than most could dream of love in 60 or 80 years, was loved and helped. He was friend and mentor, regardless of their status or earn interest. He gave value, others for the courage he has shown; not only through her battle with cancer last year, but the authenticity with which she lived her life every day. Denied by his work, which has helped to improve access to health care for hundreds of thousands of LGBT people and led that can ensure national efforts to transgender people to access the care they desperately need, but too often .
Few, if any, have me ever so much as Andy has taught. He taught me a lot about life, perseverance, compassion, optimism, loyalty and passion. He was one of the most spectacular I've ever met, but most ordinary people. Even in his last weeks, he raised his voice in the game or not, but the things he does not do able for others. It was Andy.
From his entire family, thank you, Andy, for the blessings that you, as many people were.
Chris Johnson of the Washington Blade:
Andrew Cray life - and his work on LGBT health issues - was cut last week at the age of 28 until his early death, but people close to him say his messages about LGBT life enroll in health insurance.
Among his achievements was co-Out2Enroll to encourage a project to LGBT people who buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act health. Cray has also worked as a transgender activist to ensure that states require insurance companies to cover the health costs of the transition.
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Lisa Mottet, deputy director of the National Center for Transgender Equality:
As many have expressed, Andy has had a significant impact on the LGBT movement, although he only 28 when he died on Thursday. It was a quiet force behind many victories transgender health care, but also really modest about his impact on the lives of so many. I met Andy in 2009, when I change to witness the emergence of a large eyes and a little shy law student in the hope of the world in a passionate advocate for the health of transgender people first-hand. I do not know exactly when our relationship has changed, but he did; Initially I was given with questions my years of trans awareness peppered, and then there was a change: suddenly, I turned to him because of his expertise in transgender health promotion. As activists across the country, she said, to take discriminatory exclusions of health and wanted to share my thoughts, we send it directly to Andy. I can not tell you how I felt proud of him you, even if it seems a little strange that someone who is quick to say to a colleague, a close friend in the doctrine.