LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Lee Zevy is co-founder of Identity
House, where she has spent five
decades helping to lead the allvolunteer
community non-profit in its
work to provide counseling to LGBTQ
adults.
Lee has served as an administrator,
clinical director, and director of training
at Identity House, in addition to her
ongoing roles as therapist and supervisor.
Lee has been involved in activism for
most of her life — which she attributes
to her mother’s teachings and the
circumstances of her upbringing during
the fifties. She snuck in to watch longtime
LGBTQ activist Randy Wicker deliver a
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speech at her college campus, and she
went on to join the Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE). She participated in the
March on Washington, emboldening
her activist spirit.
Lee attended Gay Activists Alliance
meetings and became deeply
involved in women’s rights initiatives,
but subsequently focused more on a
career path in social work to provide
counseling to gay people, leading to the
emergence of Identity House.
Lee pursued a master’s degree in
social work from Fordham University
and trained gestalt psychotherapy
at the New York Institute for Gestalt
Therapy, where, as a fellow, she now
teaches and supervises. In 1979, Lee
left her job in social work with the City
of New York and went into full-time
private practice as an out lesbian
therapist.
Lee continued to expand her expertise
in 2001 when she became certified in
integral coaching to assist clients working
to build their careers.
Lee married her longtime partner, Lucy
Ianniciello, in 2013 — 46 years after they
met at Chelsea’s old French Hospital.
Lucy passed away in 2017.
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