Reminiscences of Joe Tarver : oral history, 2002.

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Reminiscences of Joe Tarver : oral history, 2002.

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Raised in Port Arthur, TX and Louisiana; education: B.A. University of Texas in Austin, M.A. University of Glasgow in Scotland; career: 1988 Albert Gore campaign, White House liaison at the Department of State under President William Jefferson Clinton, United States Trade Representative, fundraiser for Empire State Pride Agenda, communications director of Empire State Pride Agenda; September 11th: gridlocked streets, communication with family, mass migration uptown; Empire State Pride Agenda: statewide hate crimes law, local nondiscrimination measures, Dignity for All Students Act, post 9/11 focus of Empire State Pride Agenda: legitimatizing gay and lesbian relationships in face of service assistance and benefits, work to expand definition of family, reports of problems around eligibilty requirements, Crime Victims Board, training service agencies and volunteers on gay and lesbian rights, collaborative work with Anti-Violence Project and LAMBDA Legal Defense and Education Fund, problems surrounding documentation of relationships, temporary guidelines for Red Cross and other organizations, impossibility of identifying and assisting closeted individuals, impediments to receiving federal level assistance, help of Human Rights Campaign in governmental negotiations, back-channel communications in Washington, highly subjective success rates with Federal Victims Compensation Fund, questions/problems surrounding adoption and children of survivors, attempts to make provisions permanent, use of event to highlight widespread instances in inequity and discrimination.

transcript: 38 p.sound recordings: 1 sound disc (77 min.) : digital ; 3 in.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Empire State Pride Agenda

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Incorporated in 1990, as the result of a merger between two statewide organizations: the New York State Lesbian and Gay Lobby based in Albany, and FAIRPAC based in New York City. The Empire State Pride Agenda is a political organization that lobbies the New York State government for legal protection and equal rights for lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. Libby Post and Mark D'Alessio were the Pride Agenda's first co-chairs of the Board, and Richard D. Dadey, Jr., the first executive ...

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Tarver, Joe, 1958-,

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Communications Director, Empire State Pride Agenda. From the description of Reminiscences of Joe Tarver : oral history, 2002. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269256875 ...