GAY LIFE

A great national Gay group is the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force which is the oldest group of its kind that continues to be around. One of the best things about NGLTF is that every year they produce a national conference for Gay activists, policymakers, community members, and just everyday people. Their conferences are amazing.

I was lucky enough to be able to attend a few several years ago. I talked my national group, Americans United, into allowing me to have a booth of our stuff at their conferences in 1997. That first experience was so good for AU and good for me personally. AU has continued to go to their conferences every year since.

Anyway, I got to attend, while working the booth, in 1997 in San Diego, and in 1998 in Pittsburgh. Then in 1999, I had moved out here to San Francisco, but the conference was in Oakland, so I got to go to some of it while out here. The contacts and friends I made from those conferences have proven continually beneficial to me over the years. I'm still in touch with several of them. And the conferences themselves were a great place for national discussions on local grassroots concerns. I only wish I could attend them again nowadays. And I'd like to participate more in the meetings. Someday, hopefully, I will. And maybe, you will too.