National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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| National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | |
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 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force logo |
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| Formation | 1973 |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Executive Director | Rea Carey |
| Website | www.thetaskforce.org |
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is a pro-(LGBT) non-profit organization. It was founded in 1973 by Dr. Howard Brown, Dr. Bruce Voeller, who was the organization's first director, Reverend Robert Carter and Dr. Frank Kameny, in New York. The current executive director is Rea Carey.
NGLTF runs Creating Change, a national LGBT conference, which receives 2,000 attendees each year.[citation needed] Plenary sessions provide a common meeting ground for the conference to explore current issues in the LGBT community. In 2003, the conference featured the first ever Skills Academy for Leadership and Action, an all day session dedicated to skills training for grassroots activists.[1]
In 2005, NGLTF protested against the Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders, which forbids the ordination of Catholic homosexual seminarians.[citation needed]
The Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is a think tank that conducts social science research, policy analysis, strategy development, public education and advocacy.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ 16th Annual Creating Change Conference Kicks Off in Miami, CommonDreams.org, November 7, 2003, http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/news2003/1107-10.htm, retrieved 2007-10-17
- ^ Policy Institute, NGLTF website, http://www.thetaskforce.org/our_work/policy_institute, retrieved 2007-10-17
