[1][3] She was appointed to the Governor's Task Force on AIDS, and assisted in the creation of an HIV/AIDS antibody testing program for the city, which handled clients anonymously.
[1] She also started and ran the campus Sexual and Reproductive Health Education (SHARE) program[3] and was a member of the lesbian/gay/bisexual concerns committee.
[1] Among the AIDS educational initiatives she oversaw were a peer education program employing students to talk to other students in dormitories, fraternities, and sororities; the distribution of thousands of condoms at AIDS workshops and at a permanent "AIDS table" at the university health center; and a "Love Carefully Day", which featured STD information tables in the campus gymnasium and the distribution of gift packets containing a carnation flower, a Hershey's kiss candy, and a latex condom for students to give to "that special someone".
[1] The center, named in honor of Mabel Sine Wadsworth, a pioneering birth control activist and women's health educator in Maine, was formulated as a private nonprofit in response to President Reagan's enforcement of the global gag rule in 1984, which prohibited federally-funded programs from handling abortions.
[7] After eight years of operating on a volunteer basis,[8] the center named Lockhart as executive director in January 1992,[1] a post she held until her retirement in May 2015.
[6] The center opened with the goal of promoting abortion rights and health care for lesbians, and was regularly picketed.