By Sue Hy, Director of the Task Force’s Natnal Conference on LGBT Equaly: Creatg Change The first s of myster illns affectg gay men
Contents:
- THE NATNAL GAY AND LBIAN TASK FORCE: FIGHTG HIV/AIDS OM THE BEGNG
- BOARD OF EDUTN OF OKLAHOMA CY V. NATNAL GAY TASK FORCE (1985)
- NATNAL GAY AND LBIAN TASK FORCE
THE NATNAL GAY AND LBIAN TASK FORCE: FIGHTG HIV/AIDS OM THE BEGNG
The Natnal LGBTQ Task Force is dited to achievg eedom and jtice for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer people, and their fai through proactive, targeted, change-ducg iativ. * national gay task force *
The Natnal LGBTQ Task Force is dited to achievg eedom and jtice for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer people, and their fai through proactive, targeted, change-ducg iativ. Also known as: NGLTF, Natnal Gay Task Force, Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, The Task Force. Natnal LGBTQ Task Force, byname the Task Force, formerly Natnal Gay Task Force (1973–85) and Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force (1985–2014), Amerin nonernmental anizatn found 1973 that advot for the civil rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) dividuals.
The anizatn mpaigned to have homosexualy removed as a tegory of mental disorr the 1970s. In that same time perd enuraged the Democratic Party to nsir the civil and human rights of the gay muny.
In 1984 the anizatn issued the first extensive report on hate crim directed at the gay muny, documentg anti-gay victimizatn and vlence. As a foundg member anizatn of the Milary Freedom Project, the Task Force helped set the amework for the 1993 bate about gays servg the to the Obergefell v. Kaposi’s sara, a relatively benign form of ncer olr people, aggrsively stck young gay men New York Cy.
BOARD OF EDUTN OF OKLAHOMA CY V. NATNAL GAY TASK FORCE (1985)
Natnal LGBTQ Task Force, Amerin nonernmental anizatn found 1973 that advot for the civil rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) dividuals. It was the first such natnal-level nonprof anizatn, and mobiliz state-level trag of LGBTQ * national gay task force *
As more and more data accumulated, GRID (gay-related immune ficiency), AID (acquired immunoficiency disease), “gay ncer” or “muny-acquired immune dysfunctn, ” changed nam and changed shape. Bce Voeller, former executive director of the Natnal Gay Task Force, would nduct early rearch tablishg that ndoms prevent the spread of AIDS, and he tablished the e of the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, rather than the accurate and stigmatizg “Gay Related Immune Deficiency” to scribe this syndrome. Origally thought to be nfed to gay men, s began to be reported hemophiliacs, Haians and women.
NATNAL GAY AND LBIAN TASK FORCE
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Alarms sound all over the untry, but pecially for gay men and those who red about them. What seemed to be a mor medil mystery morphed to the most profound public health tastrophe to strike gay muni the Uned Stat. In 1982, Virgia Apuzzo, then executive director of the Natnal Gay Task Force New York Cy, saw big trouble brewg.
And a toxic brew turned out to be: a sexually transmted, ially untreatable and fatal disease primarily affectg gay and bisexual men mixed wh ep-seated homophobia and sex phobia.
Board of Edutn of Oklahoma Cy v. Natnal Gay Task Force (1985) affirmed a lg strikg down a law punishg teachers for “public homosexual nduct." * national gay task force *
Dpe lnch of lol first-rponr anizatns like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) New York Cy, Apuzzo believed that meetg the health crisis at sle required rourc om the feral ernment. In 1983, she brought Jeff Levi on to the Task Force staff; Levi was the first AIDS lobbyist om a gay anizatn to work the halls of Congrs and feral agenci.
The anizatn changed s name to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force and reloted s office to Washgton, D.