Weho Times.“I am sad to report that LGBTQ and feminist icon Ivy Bottini passed away this morning. She passed peacefully at home surrounded by her daughters with her minister beside her reading the latest news in LGBTQ rights,” newly elected West Hollywood City Councilperson Sepi Shyne announced on Twitter.
Born in 1926, in Long Island, NY, Bottini earned a certificate in advertising graphic design and illustration at the Pratt Institute School of Art in Brooklyn in the early ’40s.
She worked in art and ad agencies in New York City before working at Newsday for 16 years, a job she left to relocate to California in 1971.
Bottini’s activism was in place long before the cross-country move. Her activism kickstarted when she joined a gathering of.