San Diego City Commissioner Nicole Murray-Ramirez has been elected one of the national co-chairs of the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 11.

“The GLBT fight for equality is the civil rights movement of the 21st century,” said Murray-Ramirez. “And we must continue this fight for equality in the political suites of power and in the streets of activism.”

Murray-Ramirez joins co-chairs Lt. Dan Choi (New York), David Mixner (Washington DC), Natine Smith (Florida) and Cleve Jones (California) on the national board.

This is the sixth time Murray-Ramirez has been elected to a national march committee; he has served on the national committee of the past four national marches on Washington and was the chair of the 2000 march. Murray-Ramirez was also elected National Chair of Stonewall 25 held in New York in 1994.

Murray-Ramirez is currently a national board member of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) and is a past national board member of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Gay Rights Lobby as well as a past state chair of Equality California and past national co-chair of the National Latino/Latina LGBT Association of America. Murray-Ramirez is also currently the national executive director of the International Court Council of Canada, USA and Mexico, with chapters in more than 68 cities in these three countries.

Major GLBT national organizations have officially endorsed the National Equality March on Washington DC including the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Metropolitan Community Church, NGLTF and HRC.