Matt Foreman steps down from National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

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Matt Foreman steps down from National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8056108?nclick_check=1
01/23/2008

SAN FRANCISCO—The executive director of one of the nation's leading gay rights groups has accepted a new job with a philanthropic foundation in San Francisco.  At the task force, Foreman has been a prominent advocate for gay men, lesbians and transgender people in the US on such issues as marriage and military ...

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http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=55284

Foreman to Quit Task Force
by Steve Weinstein
New York Editor-In-Chief
Thursday Jan 24, 2008


Matt Foreman, the head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, will step down after five years of leading the organization. Foreman, who cut his teeth in the heady post-Stonewall days of gay activism and went on to lead several organizations, is considered one of his generation's most prominent gay activists. He is taking a job as the head of a gay non-profit foundation, the Haas Fund, which provides grants to LGBT organizations.

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ttp://www.washblade.com/2008/1-25/news/national/11923.cfm

Foreman resigns as director of Task Force     Gay
Longtime gay rights advocate to join San Francisco-based foundation

LOU CHIBBARO JR
Friday, January 25, 2008

Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force for the past five years, announced this week he is stepping down from his job in April to become head of the gay and lesbian program division of a San Francisco foundation that supports liberal social causes.