Task Force History
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Over Three Decades of Fighting for Freedom, Justice & Equality
"No account of the changes in laws and public policies would be complete without attention to [NGLTF history]. The Task Force played a critical role in the campaign to eliminate the sickness classification of homosexuality. It worked to lift the prohibition on federal civil service employment for gays and lesbians. It strove in the 1970's to make the Democratic Party responsive to the gay community. It took the lead in the 1980's in national organizing against homophobic violence. As AIDS began to devastate gay male communities, the Task Force shaped the first serious efforts in Washington to address the epidemic. It was a founding member of the Military Freedom Project, which prepared the ground for the gays-in-the-military debate of 1993. It has worked with the administrations of presidents from Carter to Clinton." - From John D'Emilio's Interpreting the NGLTF Story
2000's
January 12, 2005 – The Policy Institute releases a report on anti-gay marriage measures in the 2004 elections. Titled "Impact of Voting against Anti-gay Marriage Amendments on 2004 Re-election Campaigns in Five Midwestern States," it determines that incumbents were not harmed when they voted against anti-gay proposals to amend state constitutions. Among the findings: In Iowa, all 7 legislators who voted against the anti-gay amendment were re-elected, compared to 71% (10 of 14) of those who voted for it. In Minnesota, 98% (40 of 41) of House members who voted against the anti-gay amendment were re-elected, compared to 86% of those who voted for it. There were no Republican legislators in five states surveyed who benefited electorally from supporting anti-gay amendments.
January 20, 2005 – Matt Foreman denounces President Bush's second inaugural speech, suggesting that Bush's rhetoric about equal rights and dignity for all runs counter to his ongoing attacks on the rights of GLBT people. "President Bush focused much of his second inaugural address on spreading 'the force of human freedom' across the world. Here at home, over the past four years this administration and its allies have attacked the rights and dignity of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. In his second term, we challenge the president to be true to his words and begin proclaiming -- instead of attacking -- the rights, dignity, and matchless value of gay Americans."
January 25, 2005 – The Policy Institute issues a report titled "Glass Half Full" which chronicles the advance of U.S. laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Currently, 47% of all Americans -- 138 million people -- now live in a jurisdiction that bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Ten years ago, the figure was 34%.
February 4, 2005 – Matt Foreman hails a court opinion by New York City Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, determining that GLBT people should have equal access to marriage.
February 8, 2005 – The Policy Institute issues a groundbreaking report titled "Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People: a Community Portrait" The analysis confirms that 82% of Asian Pacific American LGBT people surveyed had experienced discrimination based on their sexual orientation, and the same percentage had experienced discrimination based on their race or ethnicity. Future studies will study APA LGBT people in U.S. cities with large APA populations, including Los Angeles and San Francisco.
February 15, 2005 – The Policy Institute releases a landmark study on Black same-sex households in major American cities, confirming that such same-sex households are almost as likely as Black married opposite-sex couple households to include children and more likely to report serving in the military; that Black same-sex couples are more likely to work in the public sector, and that they earn less than married Black couples. Same-sex couples surveyed reside in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia. The five-city analysis is a supplement to the groundbreaking study, Black Same-Sex Households in the United States: a Report from the 2000 Census, released in October by the Task Force Policy Institute and the National Black Coalition.
February 25, 2005 – The Task Force creates a new Department of Public Policy and Government Affairs and hires three noted leaders and advocates - including former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Eleanor D. (Eldie) Acheson - to staff the department. Created to strengthen the Task Force's voice in federal matters, the new department will focus on LGBT community health and human service needs and legislation to address inequities in all phases of everyday life. Joining Acheson are Dave Noble, former Executive Director of National Stonewall Democrats and Amber Hollibaugh, a leading expert on GLBT senior issues and HIV in women, most recently from SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Seniors).
March 1, 2005 – The Policy Institute releases its first-ever study of Hispanic and Latino same-sex households. An analysis of the results of the 2000 Florida census, the report confirmed that Hispanic same-sex households bear resemblances to heterosexual households in parenting, military participation and disadvantages in income and home ownership. Hispanic/Latino same-sex couples have more to gain from the legal protections of marriage, and more to lose if the state passes the proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage and other forms of partner recognition.
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| (L-R) Kansas ACLU cooperating attorney Pedro Irigonegaray, Sarah Swartz, and Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman celebrating the March 1 defeat by Topeka voters of a Fred Phelps anti-LGBT ballot initiative. |
March 2, 2005 – The Task Force congratulates the LGBT community and allies of Topeka, KS, for narrowly defeating an ordinance that would have limited laws protecting LGBT Kansans from discrimination for the next 10 years. It would have also repealed existing city ordinances banning LGBT discrimination. The Task Force was a driving force behind the "Vote NO on March 1st" campaign; it recruited and paid for campaign staff, provided technical assistance, contributed approximately $20,000 in cash, and organized volunteer phone banks in New York, Kentucky, Washington (DC), and Tacoma (WA) to call undecided voters. The vote against the ordinance was 52% to 48% (with 95% of the precincts reporting).
March 16, 2005 – The Policy Institute commemorates Women's History Month with a report on same-sex households headed by LBT women of color. This demographic is likely to raise foster or adopted children, but earn considerably less when compared to married, opposite-sex Black and Hispanic/Latino households. Data are taken from three reports published by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute during the last year: Black Same-Sex Households in the United States: A Report from the 2000 Census, Hispanic and Latino Same-Sex Households in Florida: A Report from the 2000 Census, and Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A Community Portrait.
March 17, 2005 – Following the murder of Washington, DC, LGBT leader Wanda Alston, The Task Force contributes $10,000 to the reward offered for information leading to the identity of her slayer.
January 14, 2004 – Responding to President Bush's plans for a $1.5 billion proposal to 'sustain marriage,' Matt Foreman warns that Bush's emphasis on same-sex marriage will really serve as a dividing wedge in the upcoming election year between two heavily Democratic bases, African-Americans and gays/lesbians. Foreman states, "Struggling [African-American] families do not need $1.5 billion worth of marriage counseling. More importantly, they need jobs, health coverage, and decent schools for their children."
February 1, 2004 – The Task Force cosponsors the first LGBT Asian Pacific Americans Conference, to be held in New York City March 5 to 7. Its objective is raising the consciousness of one of the fastest growing minorities in the US. The conference will address invisibility, isolation and stereotyping, and the need to incorporate LGBT identity with sexual, racial/ethnic, language, gender, immigrant, and economic diversity within their own community.
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| Executive Director Matt Foreman at the New York rally protesting President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on February 24, 2004 |
February 24, 2004 – President Bush calls for Congress to pass an anti-marriage amendment directed specifically at gays/lesbians. Matt Foreman calls the action "a despicable new low." Foreman adds, "The president's exhortation that this debate be conducted 'without bitterness or anger' is an insult to our families, our dignity and to our contributions as citizens to the life of this nation. We consider today's announcement a declaration of war on gay America."
February 24, 2004 – The Task Force organizes protest rallies in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in immediate response to President Bush's election-year call for Congress to pass an anti-gay marriage amendment.
March 5, 2004 – The Task Force commends the efforts of local activists in Maine, Indiana and Wyoming in preventing the local passage of anti-gay legislation, specifically outlawing same-sex marriage.
March 11, 2004 – The Policy Institute issues a report about the self-titled "pro-family" groups fighting against same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. Titled ?Anti-Gay Groups Active in Massachusetts: A Closer Look", it identifies their true homophobic agenda. Local media outlets are urged to investigate these groups' true motives and sources of income.
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| Playwright Tony Kushner presenting the Leadership Award to Gene Robinson on March 15, 2004. |
March 15, 2004 – V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Bishop in the Anglican Communion, is honored by the Task Force at its 15th Annual New York City Leadership Awards.
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| Member of Congress Barney Frank speaking with Sarah Hamlen and Linda Blair, participants in the Task Force's March 2004 Power Summit. |
March 26, 2004 – The Task Force opens its Power Summit in Boston to prepare local activists for the upcoming Massachusetts constitutional battle over gay marriage. Over four days of workshops, attendees learn grassroots campaigning, legislative action and door-to-door canvassing techniques. Guest speakers include Matt Foreman, Rea Carey and openly gay Congressman Barney Frank (MA-D).
April 1, 2004 – The Task Force announces that it will receive 10% of sales of the reissued book, "Sisters", a lesbian-themed western written by Vice-President Dick Cheney's wife Lynn in 1981. The donations will be made by Left Bank Books of St. Louis, MO. (The Cheneys? daughter Mary is an out lesbian with a partner, while her father supports an anti-gay marriage amendment to the Constitution.) Shortly after this fundraising offer is announced, Penguin Books chooses not to re-issue the book.
April 5-13, 2004 – The Policy Institute issues two reports analyzing the disproportionate financial burden on same-sex couples in both Massachusetts and Oregon. The reports are titled Economic Benefits of Marriage Under Federal and Massachusetts/Oregon Law. These studies confirm the lack of legal support for same-sex couples, as they are exempt from numerous federal and state tax advantages enjoyed by heterosexual couples.
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| (L-R) Sarah Reese, Development Database Administrator Henry Woodside, Executive Director Matt Foreman and Candy Cox carrying the Task Force banner at the March for Women's Lives in Washington on April 25, 2004. |
April 23, 2004 – The Task Force will join the upcoming March for Women's Lives in support of reproductive health and reproductive freedom. Matt Foreman urges LGBT community presence.
April 26, 2004 – The Task Force brings GLBT activists to the DC-based March for Women?s Lives, emphasizing the strong tie between reproductive rights and equal rights. From the pre-March rally speakers stage, Task Force Deputy Executive Director Rea Carey declares a common agenda: ?Our legal legacies depend on each other. We will march today because the enemies of reproductive freedom are the same enemies of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.?
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| Task Force Deputy Executive Director Rea Carey speaking via video at the March for Women's Lives, the largest-ever protest march in the nation’s capital, on April 25, 2004. |
May 4, 2004 – Matt Foreman releases a statement, chastising Democratic politicians for their modest mobilization against the Federal Marriage Amendment. Foreman states: ?The religious right knows how to play adult politics: they insist on getting something in exchange for their support. It's time we did the same. Our community is owed a renewed pledge [from Democrats] - now - that any anti-marriage amendment is dead on arrival in the Senate.?
May 14, 2004 – In a meeting between leading Senate Democrats and leaders of the LGBT community, including The Task Force's Matt Foreman, senators reaffirm the party?s commitment to defeating any amendment to the constitution prohibiting same-sex marriage.
May 17, 2004 – Matt Foreman highlights the hypocrisy of President Bush in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision while simultaneously calling for renewed support for the discriminatory, anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment.
May 17, 2004 – As Massachusetts begins its first day of legally marrying same-sex couples, The Task Force issues a congratulatory statement. ?This wonderful day would never have happened but for the more than four decades of struggle for equal rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people all across our nation. Day after day, year after year, we have opened hearts and changed minds.? Sue Hyde, Director of the Creating Change Conference, is among the first to wed.
May 28, 2004 – The Policy Institute and the Woodhull Freedom Foundation (WFF) launch a study of sex laws still on the books across the United States, to help focus grassroots actions to change these laws, many drafted specifically against the GLBT community.
June 6, 2004 – In response to national mourning over the death of former President Ronald Reagan, Matt Foreman releases an open letter, addressed to a close friend and colleague who died of AIDS. Foreman cites Reagan?s inaction during the early days of the epidemic, which led to tens of thousands of deaths. The letter receives much attention in the press.
June 17, 2004 – The Policy Institute releases a study titled Caregiving Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender New Yorkers. It confirms that GLBT New Yorkers gays and lesbians are often required to become caretakers of aging family members, thus debunking the right-wing's "anti-family" message concerning gays/lesbians.
July 7, 2004 – The Task Force, working with SAVE Dade, help pass legislation in Miami Beach City to include non-gender-specific language in its anti-discrimination policies. This provides protection for transgender people who are legally overlooked because they do not fit traditional gender stereotypes.
August 3, 2004 – Matt Foreman issues a statement demanding inclusion of transgender rights in the wording of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).
August 8, 2004 – The Task Force assumes responsibility for organizing the famed Winter Party and Recognition Dinner, both significant fundraisers for Miami-Dade's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
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| A feature story on "Gaymerica," the Task Force's online voter education campaign satirizing the way in which the right seeks to exploit irrational fears about gay people to divide the nation. |
September 24, 2004 – The Task Force unveils its satirical "United States of Gaymerica" online campaign designed to ridicule the hate rhetoric of anti-gay groups. Three short films reaffirm the ridiculousness of right-wing claims against same-sex marriage, including one which calls for the farcical "Bovine Love Amendment."
October 6, 2004 – The Policy Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition release a joint report titled "Black Same-Sex Households in the United States: A Report from the 2000 Census." The analysis confirms disproportional economic and social burdens faced by black same-sex households. These burdens include lack of access to state/federal aid programs designed only to aid married families. Black same-sex couples comprise 14% of all U.S. same-sex couples.
October 8, 2004 – Matt Foreman issues a rallying cry to all LGBT people to defeat the state-by-state constitutional amendments in the coming election through increased community organizing and voter registration. Foreman declares, "We need to face the obvious: we are huge underdogs in every one of these battles. Not because marriage equality is simply a losing issue. It is not. Not because we don't have talented and courageous leaders and organizations on our side throughout this country. We do. Instead, it's because -- with only a handful of exceptions -- our side simply does not have the time, the resources, or the infrastructure to beat back the forces being unleashed against us in this election year."
October 15, 2004 – Matt Foreman dismisses the notion that John Kerry unfairly referred to Mary Cheney's lesbianism during the presidential debates. He urges media to focus on critical issues, stating, "Can we talk about something real, not the patently bogus hurt and anger of Dick and Lynne Cheney??
October 19, 2004 – New York City goes to court to fight implementation of the Equal Benefits Law, which would prevent business with vendors who practice anti-gay discrimination. Condemning the Mayor?s action, Matt Foreman resigns his position on New York City's Human Rights Commission.
November 1, 2004 – The Policy Institute issues a report titled "Couples Affected By 2004 Anti-Gay Ballot Initiatives". The analysis concludes that upcoming discriminatory marriage amendments would affect more than 500,000 same-sex and opposite-sex couples in Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia alone.
November 3, 2004 – In national elections, anti-gay marriage amendments pass in 11 states, with budgets by pro-discrimination groups dwarfing the spending of local pro-equality activists.
November 4, 2004 – Matt Foreman calls a press conference to dispute a growing post-election myth that same-sex marriage was the reason for George Bush?s re-election. Foreman states: "Frankly, the right did a better job in turning out their vote in key places. They've been building their machine - illegally, unethically, or both - through churches for 30 years. They have seized and occupied "moral values" for years. Our side is not going to make up these deficiencies in one cycle. But to pin all of this on "the gays" is wrong. Don't buy it."
November 11, 2004 – The first post-election LGBT conference, the 17th Annual Creating Change Conference, opens in St. Louis and draws 2,500 people. Community's leaders regroup to assess the reasons for an overwhelming passage of anti-gay legislation in eleven states one week earlier.
December 3, 2004 – The Task Force Religious Leadership Roundtable condemns CBS and NBC for refusing to run a television ad by the United Church of Christ, which promotes their policy of inclusiveness to all, and includes same-sex couples.
December 9, 2004 – In an interview with The New York Times, Matt Foreman explained the reason for the passage of 11 state amendments banning same-sex marriage. Foreman states: "Putting a fundamental right up for a popular vote is always extremely difficult to win, no matter what the cause. And when you are talking about something as recent as marriage equality, the bar gets raised even higher." Foreman adds that anti-gay backlashes have occurred in the past, following progress in the movement. But he pledged that The Task Force would remain on the offensive. "A lot of gay people understand the concept of bullies," Mr. Foreman said. "The worst thing you can do with a bully is not fight back because you'll only get hit harder the next day."
December 10, 2004 – The Task Force joins leading GLBT organizations in sending a letter to all members of Congress, denying that community groups will pull back from same-sex marriage or work with the Bush administration to privatize Social Security in exchange for support, as erroneously reported in a December 9 New York Times article. "Where We Stand: A Letter to all Members of Congress" sets off a series of articles in major U.S. media, including The New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe.
December 20, 2004 – The Task Force salutes the fifth anniversary of same-sex civil unions in Vermont. Matt Foreman points out that currently, more than 60% of Americans support civil unions or civil marriage for same-sex couples.
2003 – Timed to coincide with the beginning of new legislative sessions, the NGLTF Policy Institute presents a series of regional trainings to gay and straight activists based on information in the Family Policy Manual.
2003 – NGLTF announces a new feature of the Creating Change conference set to debut in Miami in November 2003: the Creating Change Skills Academy for Leadership and Action.
2003 – NGLTF embarks on a "Legislative Equality" tour, with NGLTF Transgender Civil Rights Legislative Lawyer Lisa Mottet meeting with 150 activists from seven states across the country during the month of March. Two victories that NGLTF assisted local leaders with were in Hawaii where the term "gender identity or expression" was added to the existing hate crimes law, and New Mexico, where both a hate crimes bill and an anti-discrimination bill have been signed into law by Governor Richardson.
February 20, 2003 – The Task Force celebrates 30 years of grassroots activism. During the past three decades, The Task Force has defeated anti-GLBT ballot measures across the nation, trained thousands of local activists, and has been instrumental in both drafting and passing non-discrimination laws on state and local levels.
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| New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, surrounded by New Mexico LGBT activists, signing non-discrimination and hate crimes bills into law on April 10, 2003. |
April 4, 2003 – New York City-based veteran GLBT activist Matt Foreman is named successor to Lorri L. Jean as Executive Director of the Task Force. Matt Foreman has worked for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights for 25 years, most recently as executive director of The Empire State Pride Agenda, the nation's largest statewide lesbian and gay political advocacy and civil rights organization. Previously, he helmed The New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project and The Heritage of Pride, organizers of NYC's lesbian and gay pride events). Foreman will take office in May.
April 30, 2003 – The Task Force shares in the credit for the revision of anti-discrimination laws in Covington, Kentucky, which now includes sexual orientation as a protected category. The victory comes days after The Task Force joined with local and regional activists for the Ohio Valley Power Summit, a weekend dedicated to grassroots campaigning which draws 120 GLBT community leaders and allies.
May 28, 2003 – The Policy Institute releases the first comprehensive report to disclose the positions of the Democratic presidential candidates on GLBT issues. The study also charts GLBT voting patterns across America, identifying these voters as comprising nearly 5% of the vote in national Congressional and Presidential elections.
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| New York City Councilmember Margarita Lopez celebrating the defeat of anti-sodomy laws by the U.S. Supreme Court at a Task Force-sponsored rally at Stonewall Place in Manhattan on June 26, 2004. |
June 26, 2003 – The Task Force celebrates the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down sodomy laws across the country, which had classified GLBT people as criminals for several generations. In 1986, The Task Force had launched the Privacy Project, the first national education and advocacy campaign to repeal consensual sodomy laws, following the Supreme Court's infamous 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision.
July 15, 2003 – The Task Force declares its support for DontAmend.com, a website and grass-roots movement dedicated to fighting President Bush's campaign to amend the United States Constitution to prevent same-sex marriage.
July 30, 2003 – Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman issues a strong statement called "Promise and Peril," warning gays, lesbians and their families and friends to prepare for a backlash against recent legal victories, including the repeal of sodomy laws and the passage of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.
August 1, 2003 – The Task Force completes the New Mexico Power Summit, a grass-roots campaign across the state to unite community activists, recognize political allies and raise funds for future battles. The Summit was launched to challenge recent efforts to overturn newly established hate-crimes and non-discrimination legislation in the state.
August 14, 2003 – Matt Foreman is invited to speak at the 40th Anniversary March on Washington. The Task Force plans several events during the weekend, each showcasing the prejudice faced by both African-American and GLBT communities.
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| The Task Force organized over 1,500 volunteers for the August 2003 Civil Rights March on Washington under the banner "We Will March With You." |
August 23, 2003 – The Task Force organizes over 1,500 volunteers for the March on Washington under the banner, "We Will March With You." Matt Foreman addresses the marchers about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?s dream of universal equality, declaring, "I was honored to walk with my African American brothers and sisters in this inclusive 40th anniversary of our nation's historic civil rights March on Washington and I am proud of the LGBT community who came together from across the country to support it."
October 8, 2003 – California's racist Proposition 54 defeated in a ballot measure, thanks in part to the Task Force's get-out-the-vote effort, in which they identified anti-54 voters and later brought them to the polls through phone banking and neighborhood canvassing.
October 17, 2003 – The Policy Institute releases a study titled 'Marriage Protection Week' Sponsors: Are They Really Interested in 'Building Strong and Healthy Marriages?' Analysis proves that President Bush?s Marriage Protection Week efforts disproportionately focus on anti-gay (rather than pro-family) policies. Despite accusations of wealthy gay lobbying efforts, it is proven that anti-gay organizations dwarf even the largest pro-gay groups combined by more than 400%.
October 27, 2003 – The Task Force awards ten Community Impact Fund grants totaling $500,000 to local grassroots organizations across the country. The grants will be used to significantly expand each organization's volunteer base and to use those volunteers to identify at least 15,000 pro-gay voters over a two-year period. This is the largest amount ever distributed by a national gay organization to state and local organizations.
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| Celebrating the passage of domestic partnership registries on November 4, 2003 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (L-R): Heights Families for Equality leader David Caldwell, Task Force Director of Organizing & Training Dave Fleischer and Field Organizer Jason Cooper. |
November 4, 2003 – In Cleveland Heights, Ohio, voters pass domestic partnership registries (both same-sex and opposite-sex) by a margin of 55%. The success comes after the Task Force?s local grassroots efforts on the measure.
November 7-16, 2003 – he 16th annual Creating Change Conference, sponsored by The Task Force, takes place in Miami and attracts 2,000 attendees from across the country. The Conference theme is ?Building an Anti-Racist Movement for Social and Economic Justice.? During the Conference, nearly one hundred workshop sessions focus on topics including: Aging; Anti-Violence; Bisexuality; Campus Issues; Elections and Campaigns; Gender Identity; Health; Legal; Military; Media; People of Color, Transgender and Youth Issues; and, Spirituality and Faith.
November 17, 2003 – The Policy Institute releases a study on LGBT students and the children of LGBT parents, titled "Education Policy: Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth?. While violence and harassment against this group is widespread, more states are taking steps to make schools safer for them by banning student discrimination based on gender identity. The report makes a series of recommendations, involving sex education and after-school programs, to give LGBT youth a greater degree of acceptance.
November 18, 2003 – In an historic decision, the Massachusetts High Court affirms that denying gays/lesbians right to marriage is an affront to their civil liberties, and therefore specifically outlawed in the state constitution. The court demands a 180-day grace period before the decision takes effect, allowing the state legislature to enact ?appropriate action.? Matt Foreman hails the decision as "an exhilarating victory, an important battle won in the struggle for equal rights."
November 24, 2003 – The Task Force issues a holiday appeal, called "Talk Turkey: Bring it Home for the Holidays," asking gays, lesbians and allies to explain to family members during Thanksgiving the damage to their lives caused by the President?s anti-gay amendment campaign.
December 16, 2003 – President Bush confirms on national television he will actively campaign to write anti-gay discrimination into the U.S. Constitutional. The Task Force calls on all members to telephone the White House in protest. Matt Foreman responds: ?We consider this a declaration of war on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender America. The President is clearly using our lives and families to pander to the political and religious extremists that comprise his base. We did not ask for this fight, but if the President wants one, he will have one."
December 18, 2003 – The Task Force renews its "Bring it home for the Holidays" campaign for Christmas, urging gays, lesbians and their allies to solicit support from family and friends against President Bush?s anti-gay agenda. 2002 – NGLTF Policy Institute issues three reports: Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud: Black Pride Survey 2000, written by five African American researchers and co-published with nine Black Pride organizations, it is the largest-ever survey of Black GLBT people and reveals fascinating data on the demographics, policy priorities, and experiences of discrimination, racism and homophobia; 2000 Census and Same-Sex Households: A User's Guide which is aimed at empowering activists and policymakers to access Census data on the 600,000 same-sex couples who self-identified on the 2000 Census; and the Family Policy Manual which examines issues affecting GLBT families, partner recognition, parenting, youth and elder issues, health care and end of life issues, and the impact of welfare reform, the faith based initiative, and discrimination on GLBT families.
2002 – The NGLTF Legislative Law Project and the Transgender Civil Rights Project assisted activists in introducing or passing pro-LGBT legislation in more than 20 jurisdictions.
2002 – The NGLTF Policy Institute convenes a meeting of 30 researchers and advocates at the University of Minnesota to review existing research, identify policy innovations which impact safe schools initiatives, and develop an agenda for future research, policy analysis, and strategy development.
2002 – NGLTF Organizing & Training department scores multiple victories in defeating anti-gay ballot initiatives in Florida, Washington, Maine and Michigan. NGLTF provided monetary assistance and sent field organizers to help local activists organize effective campaigns. In Miami, NGLTF recruited nearly one hundred volunteers from across the country and sent the entire NGLTF staff to assist in get out the vote efforts during the final weeks of the campaign. "We would not have won in Tacoma if NGLTF had not made the commitment they made to help us win. NGLTF is able to bring the skills out, teach them to local folks and, when they leave, the community is so much stronger than it ever was before. NGLTF is all about the movement and, in my opinion, there's nothing that advances the movement more than creating local avenues for change." - Tacoma, Washington campaign manager Laurie Jinkins.
2002 – NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Portland, OR and for the first time features a theme, "Building an Anti-Racist Movement: Working for Social and Economic Justice."
2002 – NGLTF secures its first one million dollar grant. The Arcus Foundation Grant will dramatically expand the NGLTF Field Organizing and Training department over the next three years.
2001 – Lorri L. Jean, executive director. "There has never been an example in the history of any oppressed group to get anything more than what they ask for. The Task Force will be out there on the cutting edge saying we want it all. I think when you look at [NGLTF] history, it is extremely inspiring and it shows what a relatively small group of warriors can accomplish when they put their minds to it. Imagine what we could do if more people would get involved."
2001 – NGLTF opens first office on the West Coast, in Los Angeles, CA.
2001 – Leaving Our Children Behind: Welfare Reform and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Community is published by the NGLTF Policy Institute and is the first comprehensive report of its kind to critically analyze welfare's particular impact on poor GLBT people and the GLBT community in general. NGLTF Policy Institute also issues Redistricting and the GLBT Community Strategy Memo.
2001 – The groundbreaking study Social Discrimination and Health: The Case of Latino Gay Men and HIV Risk is issued in both English and Spanish by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Racial and Economic Justice Initiative and documents the correlation between three forms of social oppression - homophobia, racism and poverty - and the risk-taking behavior associated with HIV transmission.
2001 – NGLTF founds the Legislative Law and Transgender Civil Rights Project to provide legislative and strategy assistance to activists and organizations working to pass GLBT-inclusive anti-discrimination ordinances or to add coverage for transgender people to existing laws.
2001 – NGLTF launches the Power Summit program, which provides skills-building training to local activists to help strengthen the GLBT grassroots movement.
2001 – NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Milwaukee, WI.
2000 – From Interpreting the NGLTF Story: "The Task Force has a culture that drives it. NGLTF exists to fill a void. Its purpose from its inception has been to do what needs to be done, but what no one else is doing. This sense of purpose propels it forward, creating a sense of daring, innovation, and living on the edge. It also generates an atmosphere of missionary zeal and sacrifice: the organization is there to serve selflessly the community's needs. Its periods of greatest achievements have come during those times when the void it chose to fill coincided with work that most needed doing and when the organization has been able to achieve consensus internally about what to do. It can lead to crisis and disarray as an organization tries to reinvent itself for the changing times. It prevents an organization from developing expertise and longevity in an area, as the work of one era comes to feel old and stale while the new always beckons alluringly. And it keeps the identity of the Task Force elusive precisely because its work keeps on shifting. No organization had national work in its mission when NGTF was founded in 1973. Starting with pioneering policy change in the 1970's to AIDS policy activity in the 80's, and grassroots activism in the 90's (through Creating Change, issue-oriented organizing projects, Policy Institute reports, and on-the-road training). NGLTF's strength is its ability to reconcile and synthesize approaches that often seem incompatible. NGLTF became a voice for inclusion, arguing that agendas must be developed that embrace the perspectives of the bisexual and transgender community."
2000 – Elizabeth Toledo, executive director. "George W. Bush is heading to Washington, and now is the time for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists -- arm in arm with all social justice activists -- to be visible and vocal. I believe the movement must again reaffirm the power of local organizing, which historically has been ingrained in the mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force."
2000 – NGLTF founds the Racial and Economic Justice Program.
2000 – NGLTF and the White House coordinate a "Federal Partnerships Day" to discuss opportunities for federal funding of GLBT community centers.
2000 – NGLTF Policy Institute issues Outing Age: Public Policy Issues Affecting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders report. Also issues Legislating Equality: A Review of Laws Affecting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the United States A comprehensive report that provides the most extensive description to date of local, county and state laws addressing GLBT equality. This report is an invaluable tool for activists, journalists and policymakers who require reliable facts on laws affecting GLBT people but lack the time, resources or desire to conduct primary research. NGLTF co-publishes Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and Policy Makers.
2000 – NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Atlanta, GA.
2000 – NGLTF organized a vigil in Roanoke, VA in memory of Danny Lee Overstreet and the six people wounded when a man opened fire in a local gay bar.
1990's
1990's - From Interpreting the NGLTF Story: "In the early 90's NGLTF headed in the direction of grassroots organizing rather than federal lobbying. By the late 90's, it reconstituted itself as an organization committed to progressive coalition building, even as most of its work focused on issues of concern to the GLBT community."
1990's - NGLTF Creating Change conferences throughout the decade spurred the formation of many organizations, including: Southerners On New Ground (SONG); National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Centers; and the National Consortium of Directors of Campus LGBT Resource Centers.
1999 - NGLTF leads the planning for Equality Begins at Home, the first-ever coordinated set of lobbying events, public rallies, and conferences resulting in 350 political actions in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
1999 - NGLTF Policy Institute issues Courting the Vote: 2000 Presidential Candidates Positions on GLBT Issues.
1999 - NGLTF founds the Legislative Lawyer Project to work on progressive GLBT legislation at the state and federal levels.
1999 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Oakland, CA. Conference was inspiration for a 1500 person march on the Oakland police department for a transgender person who had been the victim of a bias crime and then harassed by the police officer.
1998 - NGLTF holds Celebrate Our Families Town Hall Meetings in over a dozen cities around the country to educate people around GLBT family issues.
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| Then Task Force Executive Director Kerry Lobel announcing "Equality Begins at Home" at the 1998 Creating Change Conference in Pittsburgh, P.A. |
1998 - NGLTF Policy Institute issues From Wrong to Rights: Public Opinion on Gay and Lesbian Americans Moves Toward Equality and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Civil Rights Laws In the U.S.; Co-publishes: Challenging the Ex-Gay Movement Information Packet; and Calculated Compassion: How the Ex-Gay Movement Serves the Right's Attack on Democracy; and Income Inflation: The Myth of Affluence Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Americans.
1998 - NGLTF deploys field organizers to Wyoming to assist in the ensuing demonstrations surrounding the Matthew Shepard murder case.
1998 - NGLTF launches a Hate Crimes Tour traveling to more than a dozen cities to discuss hate violence against GLBT people.
1998 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Pittsburgh, PA.
1997 - NGLTF launches the Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Statewide Organizations.
1997 - NGLTF Policy Institute issues Blueprint for the Second Clinton Administration Regarding GLBT Issues. Also issues All Politics Are Local: Analyzing Local Gay Rights Legislation.
1997 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in San Diego, CA.
1996 - Kerry Lobel, NGLTF Executive Director. "NGLTF strongly supports civil rights protections and affordable health care for transgender [people]. We loathe discrimination and violence perpetrated against transgenders and stand in solidarity with transgender people in their struggle for visibility, inclusion, equality and justice."
1996 - NGLTF coordinates simultaneous grassroots demonstrations and press actions in 36 communities across the country to raise media visibility and awareness about the Supreme Court ruling on opposition to Colorado's Amendment 2. The campaign is dubbed UNDO 2.
1996 - NGLTF sponsors production of the video, All God's Children, which counters Gay Rights/Special Rights, an anti-gay video focusing on the African American community.
1996 - NGLTF Policy Institute presents "Strategizing Change: A Roundtable on Law and Social Science," at Georgetown University Law Center.
1996 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Alexandria, VA.
1995 - Melinda Paras, NGLTF executive director. "NGLTF believes it is time to recognize young organizers and activists as leaders in their own right and to offer young people the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to create change. The Youth Leadership Training Institute will offer those tools to these outstanding activists."
1995 - NGLTF activates the Policy Institute, headed by Dr. John D'Emilio, a nationally known scholar in the field of gay and lesbian history, gender and women's studies.
1995 - The NGLTF Policy Institute holds the first week-long Youth Leadership Training.
1995 - The NGLTF Policy Institute produces a Campus Organizing Manual and a Marriage Organizing Kit. Also releases the first annual survey of state legislation: Capital Gains and Losses: A State-by-State Review of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and HIV/AIDS Related Legislation."
1995 - NGLTF convenes the first Progressive People of Color Grassroots Organizers Summit.
1995 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Detroit, MI.
1994 - Peri Jude Radecic, NGLTF executive director. "We know that the Right Wing will use any research results against gay and lesbian civil rights, because theirs is a movement based not on seeking the truth but on perpetuating bigotry," Radecic said in response to an NIH study on sexual orientation. "Our movement, on the other hand, wants to end discrimination against [GLBT] people, regardless of how or why sexual orientations vary."
1994 - At NGLTF's request, Attorney General Janet Reno issues an historic, first-time order to the Department of Justice's Community Relations Service to mediate anti-gay conflict in Ovett, Mississippi. From the Sister Spirit Defense Committee: "The Hensons produce the Gulf Coast Women's Music Festival, run a food bank and a literacy program, and are currently building "Camp Sister Spirit," a feminist educational and cultural center. In the last several months, these lesbians have been under attack by the local residents of Ovett, Mississippi where the camp is located. Several violent and threatening incidents have been reported by the Hensons including discovering a dead female dog shot in the stomach hanging on their mailbox, and death threats and bomb threats received through the mail, called into local radio stations, and by telephone. Nightly gun shots across their land and anti-lesbian notes left at their mailbox have also been reported." NGLTF took a major role in exposing this harassment and mobilized local, state and federal intervention. NGLTF staff were on the ground in Ovett, with NGLTF staffer Robin Kane working as media director. "I believe NGLTF literally saved our lives here at Camp Sister Spirit in Ovett, Mississippi. We are forever grateful for all that was done on our behalf! May you be there another 30 years and more!!" - Brenda Henson, M.Ed., founder of Sister Spirit Incorporated, upon receiving an NGLTF 30 year anniversary celebration announcement in 2003.
1994 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Dallas, TX. Mel White, who left the Falwell industry in 1993 after coming out, addresses the conference and apologizes for his work with anti-gay leaders and organizations. Rev. Mel White came out in 1993 after serving as a ghost writer for members of the Religious Right including: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Billy Graham and Jim Bakker.
1993 - Torie Osborn, NGLTF executive director. "We must recognize that the President sparked a very important debate that helped move the country out of the monumental state of denial that surrounded gays and lesbians in the military," Osborn said. "But it says something about his character that he sparked the debate and then ran."
1993 - NGLTF's Urvashi Vaid is a featured speaker at the March on Washington (MOW). "We've got to march from Washington into action at home. I challenge every one of you, straight or gay, who can hear my voice, to join the national gay and lesbian movement. I challenge you to join NGLTF to fight the Right. We have got to match the power of the Christian supremacists, member for member, vote for vote, dollar for dollar." - Urvashi Vaid, from her MOW speech.
1993 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Durham, NC.
1992 - NGLTF develops the Fight the Right Project, and produces the Fight the Right Action Kit which has been used by thousands of activists and organizers to help combat anti-gay ballot initiatives proliferating throughout the country.
1992 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Los Angeles, CA. The boycott Colorado project - in response to the passage of Amendment 2 - is launched at this conference. [Colorado voters passed Amendment 2, though the US Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1996]. NGLTF assists local activists in the defeat of anti-gay referendum Ballot Measure 9 in Oregon.
1992 - NGLTF leads demonstrations at the Republican National Convention in Houston, TX where Pat Buchanan has declared a culture war on gay and lesbian people.
1991 - NGLTF launches a national campaign against the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain for their homophobic policy stating that their ''obviously'' gay employees were ''failing to comply with normal heterosexual values'' and fired them. More than a decade after Cracker Barrel attempted to purge its system of gay employees by ordering unit managers to fire non-heterosexual workers - a decision it rescinded verbally at that time following negative media exposure but which it had never repudiated in writing, a majority resolution from shareholders requested a change, and at its winter 2002 shareholders meeting Cracker Barrel agreed to amend the equal-opportunity policy of its 466-unit Cracker Barrel Old Country Store chain to say it would not discriminate based on sexual orientation. Former NGLTF board member Lynn Cothren was leader of the fair employment campaign which was conducted primarily in the South.
1991 - NGLTF holds its first L.A. fundraising dinner - which was covered in the L.A. Times, the Advocate, and the Hollywood Reporter. This dinner is believed to be the first major GLBT event where Hollywood celebrities lend their name and presence to a non-AIDS specific GLBT fundraising event.
1991 - NGLTF delivers the first briefing on people of color and AIDS to the Congressional Black Caucus.
1991 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Arlington, VA.
1990 - NGLTF leads the national hate crimes coalition from the early 80's through the signing of the federal Hate Crimes Statistic Act.
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| Then Task Force Executive Director Urvashi Vaid interrupting President H.W. Bush's first and only AIDs policy speech at the National Community AIDS Partnership meeting on March 29, 1990. |
1990 - The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is signed into law, with NGLTF lobbying heavily for persons with HIV/AIDS to be included.
1990 - NGLTF's Urvashi Vaid interrupts President Bush's first and only AIDS policy speech at the National Community AIDS Partnership meeting, holding a sign reading "Remember Gay People With AIDS."
1990 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Minneapolis, MN. This is the first Creating Change to be held outside D.C. area, and the first to utilize a local host committee.
1980's
1980 - NGTF founds the Fund for Human Dignity, a non-profit educational arm of the organization and hires a lobbyist, establishing an NGTF presence in Washington D.C. for the first time.
1982 - Virginia Apuzzo, NGTF executive director. "As our movement grows larger, the traditional pursuit of access and visibility are no longer enough. We need to move from access to responsiveness and from visibility to full participation. We must not just think, but do."
1982 - Jeff Levi is hired as NGTF's first lobbyist, and the first anywhere to specifically focus on AIDS issues. (In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control reports in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on June 5 about five men with rare form of pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii. On July 3, CDC issues a second advisory on Kaposi's sarcoma, 20 cases in New York, six in California.) GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency) which implies it is restricted to gay men, is changed to AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) at the adamant urging of Bruce Voeller in a meeting with CDC officials and as dramatized in the movie And the Band Played On. Death toll is at more than 200. Response to AIDS still slow from mainstream media, even by end of year with more than 300 dead and 800 infected. AIDS makes the front page for the first time in an L.A. Times story May 31, "Mysterious Fever Now an Epidemic." First network mention is on NBC in June, Tom Brokaw: "CDC study shows that the lifestyle of some male homosexuals has triggered an epidemic of a rare form of cancer."
1982 - NGTF launches the first national project to combat anti-gay violence and establishes the first national crisis hotline. The Anti-Violence Project provided technical assistance to local groups, coordinated the first national surveys of hate-based homophobic violence and worked to bring that violence to the attention of the Justice Department.
1983 - Researchers discover the virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV) that causes AIDS. NGTF, in coalition with other gay organizations, raises money and helps launch AIDS Action and the NORA (National Organizations Responding to AIDS) coalition.
 1984 - NGTF issues the first comprehensive report of anti-gay violence and victimization. The NGTF Anti-Violence Project, headed by Kevin Berrill, is one of the most significant projects in the history of the GLBT movement.
1984 - NGTF obtains the first funding by the federal government for community-based AIDS service organizations.
1985 - To make clear the commitment to gender parity and lesbian issues, NGTF changes its name to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF).
Mid-1980's - From Interpreting the NGLTF Story: " By the mid-80's, NGLTF made a conscious effort to keep both insider and outsider approaches to change in balance, so that both were in the Task Force tool kit of advocacy methods. Thus, NGLTF was willing to negotiate with the FDA over its approach to testing and approving AIDS drugs at the same time it was actively supporting militant ACT UP demonstrations against the FDA."
1985 - Jeff Levi, NGLTF executive director. "For several years we have pressed the federal government to respond to the violence [against LGBT people] yet the actual response has been denial and neglect."
1985 - NGTF main offices move to D.C. in response to the increasing emphasis of work at the federal level.
1985 - NGLTF, in NGLTF v. Oklahoma, wins the overturn of a law that prohibited gay teachers from discussing gay rights.
1986 - GLBT History: In Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court rules that the Constitution allows states to pass and enforce sodomy laws targeting homosexuals. This resulted in the first GLBT Washington D.C. demonstration [in Oct. of 1987] and the largest demonstration (estimated at 5000 people with an estimated 700 arrested) against the United States Supreme Court.
1986 - NGLTF convenes groups working on sodomy repeal at the annual Southeastern Gay and Lesbian Conference in Atlanta - the beginnings of the NGLTF Privacy Project.
1987 - NGLTF sodomy/pride tour of southern states visits 10 cities during pride season to promote work on sodomy laws.
1987 - NGLTF was part of the March on Washington steering committee, and was represented by various staff members from the very beginning through the event itself. Urvashi Vaid served as the media coordinator for the March, and organized the first in a series of Town Hall meetings organized under the NGLTF Privacy Project - bringing an estimated 500 attendees. NGLTF produced a resource guide of action packets for activists to take home and gave away hundreds of signs regarding state sodomy laws for the March, with the tagline 'never another jailed for love.'
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| Then Task Force Media Director Urvashi Vaid and then Privacy Project Director Sue Hyde at the 1987 National March on Washington for lesbian and gay rights. |
1988 - GLBT History: October, ACT UP stages a wild civil disobedience action "die-in" in the street in front of FDA headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. More than 1,000 people participate in the nine-hour protest; 176 are arrested. NGLTF's Sue Hyde is chair of the action committee.
1988 - NGLTF convenes Military Freedom Project, to overturn the ban on military service for gays and lesbians and to campaign for military freedom for women's rights. NGLTF exposed instances of women being called "dykes" and "lesbos" for refusing to have sex with men.
1988 - NGLTF in coalition with HRCF, ACTUP and others brings AIDS issues to both major conventions in Atlanta (DNC) and New Orleans (RNC).
1988 - First of the annual NGLTF Creating Change conferences is born. Held in Washington D.C., the conference will grow to an average of 2,000 activist participants from all over the country each year.
1989 - NGLTF launches the Families Project in conjunction with the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
1989 - Urvashi Vaid, NGLTF executive director; Vaid's involvement with the Task Force began as an NGLTF board member in 1985.
1989 - A National Day of Mourning is organized by the NGLTF Privacy Project to protest Bowers v. Hardwick on the occasion of the third anniversary of the decision.
1989 - NGLTF Creating Change Conference is held in Bethesda, MD.
1970's
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| (L-R) Task Force co-founders Bruce Voeller, Frank Kameny and Howard Brown at a press conference announcing the founding of the Task Force in November 1973. |
1973 - National Gay Task Force (NGTF) Foundation founded in New York.
1973 - NGTF works to change the American Psychiatric Association's classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder, and worked with psychiatrist allies to defeat a proposed association-wide referendum to stop the declassification.
1973 - NGTF lobbies the American Bar Association to be on the record in favor of sodomy law repeal.
1974 - The National Gay Task Force, Inc. is founded and incorporated in New York as a separate 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization. NGTF, Inc. is a "social welfare" organization legally authorized to engage in significant grassroots and direct lobbying to either help defeat anti-LGBT ballot initiatives and other measures or help push pro-LGBT legislation and other measures.
1975 - NGTF lobbies for the successful ruling by the U.S. Civil Service Commission allowing gay people to serve in government employment.
1975 - NGTF works on the introduction of the first gay rights bill in the U.S. Congress (HR5452), sponsored by Rep. Bella Abzug.
 1975 - NGTF secures a resolution from the National Council of Churches condemning anti-gay discrimination.
1975 - NGTF coordinated one of the first national protests against the media in response to a homophobic episode of the television show Marcus Welby, M.D.
1975 - NGTF wins a reversal of an IRS policy that denied tax exempt status to organizations that argued that homosexuality was acceptable.
1975 - NGTF conducted the first national survey of major corporations to determine their hiring practices, and then began to advocate for non-discrimination policies.
1976 - Bruce Voeller and Jean O'Leary, NGTF co-executive directors. "[NGTF's purpose is] to re-educate society, including its homosexual members, to esteem gay men and women at their full human worth and to accord them places in society which will allow them to attain and contribute according to their full human and social potential." - Bruce Voeller, in the first NGTF Newsletter.
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| The Task Force staff and board in 1976. |
1976 - NGTF initiates Democratic National Convention project, surveying presidential candidates and organizing constituent meetings. NGTF gathered signatures from 600 delegates in support of gay rights and sodomy law repeal.
1977 - NGTF launches national educational campaign in response to Anita Bryant's anti-gay campaign to repeal gay rights ordinances across the country.
1977 - NGTF executive director Jean O' Leary is appointed to President Carter's International Women's Year commission and coordinated the passage of sexual preference resolutions at 30 state conferences and the national conference in Houston - a milestone in making equality for lesbians a key feature of mainstream feminist advocacy.
1978 - NGTF releases the first-ever study of private sector workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.
1978 - NGTF successfully lobbied the U.S. Public Health Service to stop certifying gay immigrants as "psychopathic personalities."
 1979 - Charles Brydon and Lucia Valeska, NGTF co- executive directors.
1979 - NGTF co-sponsors the first national conference of Third World gays and lesbians, which spurred autonomous organizing in the 1980's within people of color communities.
NOTE: This list is not in any way all-inclusive of every project the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has worked on over the last three decades. It is meant to be a way to flesh out major accomplishments throughout the years. If you feel a major milestone has been inadvertently omitted, please e-mail dates and relevant information to media@thetaskforce.org
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