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The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has signed on to the “Prepare To Prevail” document, a letter from a large coalition of LGBT and progressive groups stating a plan to wait until 2012 before challenging Proposition 8 at the ballot. Task Force head Rea Carey: “As a state that has often served as a political and cultural trendsetter for …

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force executive director Rea Carey will be attending Monday’s LGBT cocktail party at the White House and wants to know what you’d like her to tell the president. I will be joining a group of LGBT leaders that President Obama has invited to a reception on Monday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall …

A coalition of LGBT groups have issued a joint statement condemning the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss a challenge to the Defense Of Marriage Act. Via press release: We are very surprised and deeply disappointed in the manner in which the Obama administration has defended the so-called Defense of Marriage Act against Smelt v. United States, a lawsuit brought in …

I’ve asked some major LGBT rights organizations to issue a statement saying whether they support the proposed March On Washington in 2009. The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s executive director Rea Carey responds: “The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has long held that equality begins at home and that power is built from the ground up. We have …

Last night my loyal companion Aaron and I attended the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s annual New York Leadership Awards, where San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and designer John Bartlett were recognized for their contributions to the LGBT movement. Here’s a quick slideshow of the event; I’ll add more thoughts on the evening later today. Full screen versions of …

On Monday the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force hosts its annual New York Leadership Awards. This year’s honorees include designer John Bartlett and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Tickets available here. My coverage of the 2008 awards is here.

The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force holds a cocktail reception tonight in the West Village to kick off the 2009 New York Leadership Awards. The event takes place at Design Within Reach at 408 W.14 Street from 7pm – 9pm. More details here, where you can RSVP. This here website thingy will be a media sponsor of the awards, …

The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has released a new study (PDF) which shows that support for Proposition 8 was driven more by party affiliation and frequency of church attendance than by race, as has been previously speculated. An in-depth analysis of the Proposition 8 vote released today shows that party affiliation, political ideology, frequency of attending worship services …

Two more of my friends have made it official. Former National Gay & Lesbian Task Force executive director Matt Foreman has married his partner Frank De Leon in San Francisco. The couple has been together for 18 years. From the New York Times: Mr. De León, 46, is the owner and president of FADesign, a graphic design firm in New …

The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s Winter Party Festival (which took place in March) generated a record donation of $180,000 to Miami’s Dade Community Foundation GLBT Community Projects Fund. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force announced at a Coconut Grove reception last night that $200,000 from the 11th Annual Miami Recognition Dinner and the 2008 Winter Party Festival …

Many of you were puzzled or angered by yesterday’s joint statement from a broad coalition of LGBT groups who are asking that out-of-state gays that marry in California not return to their home states and begin filing lawsuits requesting recognition. Today’s Los Angeles Times sheds some light on the story. The memo cautioned that the U.S. Supreme Court has traditionally …

A broad coalition of nine major LGBT rights and legal groups have issued a joint statement asking out-of-state gay couples married in California NOT to then sue the federal government, their home states, or their employers for recognition of their marriage status. Four lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) legal organizations and five other leading national LGBT groups today issued …

Here’s a few more pics from Matt Foreman’s going away party on Saturday, where slideshows projected onto two walls depicted Foreman’s decades of LGBT activism in New York. The photos ranged from his days as a founder of Heritage of Pride, his six years as head of the NYC Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, his six years as Executive Director …

Debbie Harry and former Toilet Böys lead singer Miss Guy performed Kiss member Ace Frehley’s solo 1978 hit New York Groove at Monday’s NGLTF New York Leadership Awards. New York Groove will appear on Miss Guy’s upcoming album and you can stream the single on his MySpace page. And here’s Debbie Harry’s lovely latest single, If I Had You, from …

Here’s the video that Gov. Paterson sent to last night’s New York Leadership Awards. I think he’s fantastic.

Last night Aaron and I attended the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s New York Leadership Awards at the new New York Times building, where although the honorees of the evening were filmmaker John Waters, Gov. David Paterson, and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber Of Commerce, the night was really one long tearful goodbye to outgoing Task Force Executive …

On Monday, April 7th, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force presents the 2008 New York Leadership Awards at the New York Times Center. Hosted by comedian Sabrina Matthews and a featuring special performances by Debbie Harry and Miss Guy, this year’s awards will honor filmmaker John Waters, New York Governor David Paterson, and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber …

And the hits keep coming from the Concerned Women of America, who’ve now got their merkins in a knot because the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force bestowed an honor called the “Leather Leadership Award” to Guy Baldwin at last week’s Creating Change conference. From the NGLTF’s site: Baldwin is a Los Angeles-based psychotherapist, author and activist on behalf of …

NAACP head Julian Bond gave a rousing plenary speech yesterday at the 20th Annual Creating Change conference in Detroit. Creating Change is a yearly meeting of more than 2000 LGBT activists and is presented by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force.