National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (U.S.)

Founded in 1973 as the National Gay Task Force, NGLTF is the nation's oldest lesbian and gay civil rights lobby. In 1993, it served 26,000 members. Affiliated components of the Task Force include the Gay Media Task Force, founded to lobby the major television networks to improve their coverage of lesbian and gay issues; the Privacy Project; the Military Freedom Project; the Anti-Violence Project; the Creating Change conference (started in 1988); the Lesbian and Gay Families Project; and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, founded in 1995 as a separate, non-profit organization to serve as a national information clearinghouse and resource center dedicated to lesbian and gay men's issues. The Policy Institute has published numerous studies and reports, including Paisley Currah and Shannon Minter's "Transgender equality : a handbook for activists and policymakers" in 2000. In 1997, NGLTF changed its mission statement to include bisexual and transgender people and launched the Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Statewide Political Organizations.

From the description of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, 1973-2010. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 73965586

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