Celebrate Pride with the Task Force!

Stop by our booth at these Prides across the country to meet Task Force staff and volunteers and become a member of the Task Force! Check out photos we took at Washington, D.C.’s Capital Pride.

For a complete list of Prides worldwide, click here.

Stonewall 40th Anniversary

Watch Task Force Executive Director Rea Carey’s interview on a special episode of In the Life, chronicling Pride, Stonewall and the LGBT movement.

“Coming out around the time of Stonewall, in the late '60s was powerful because relatively few people had been able to do so before then,” Carey says on In the Life. “Coming out was a powerful first step in organizing, in self-actualization, in insisting on being who we were.”

For more from Carey, click here to watch the episode online. Look for her in the “State of the Movement” segment at 3:15, 7:32 and 15:01.

Click here to check your local listings for air dates.

Task Force board co-chair named
one of “100 Women We Love”

Paula Redd Zeman, who has serves as Co-Chair of the Task Force Board of Directors, was recognized as one of Go Magazine’s annual “100 Women We Love” this year alongside Rachel Maddow, Wanda Sykes and Rep. Tammy Baldwin. The lesbian magazine honored Redd Zeman for her service as commissioner of human resources of Westchester County, N.Y., and her longstanding commitment to LGBT equality.

“I come from a family of civil and human rights activists centered on validation and acceptance of those who are different,” she told the magazine. “It would have been easy to live in the shadows, but that wouldn’t have been true to my family’s principles of promoting equality for all people.”

Click here to read the piece and check out the 99 other honorees. In 2006, Task Force Senior Field Organizer Becca Ahuja was selected as one Go Magazine’s 100 women.

Honoring Transgender Heroes

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, the International Court System, in collaboration with the Task Force, is recognizing 40 transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals for their contributions toward LGBT equality.

Click here for the list of heroes, who will be honored June 25 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City.

Marking Milestones

Task Force board member Michelle Stecker and her partner Carol Bresnahan along with Task Force Communications Director Inga Sarda-Sorensen and her partner Jennie Talley, whose civil union and wedding announcements respectively ran in the New York Times, were among the 75 same-sex couples invited by the Times to celebrate at a Pride reception. The Times recently reached an LGBT milestone: publication of the 300th same-sex wedding/commitment announcement.

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. makes a toast to the same-sex couples whose announcements have been highlighted in the paper.

Task Force board member Michelle Stecker (r) and partner Carol Bresnahan celebrate at the event. View their announcement here.

Task Force Communications Director Inga Sarda-Sorensen (l), New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (center) and Sarda-Sorensen’s wife Jennie Talley pose for a photo at the event. View the couple’s Times wedding announcement here.