Matt Foreman

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Email Address: matt@yahoo.com

Location: San Francisco, CA

Project Contributor Since: July 2007

Entries by this Contributor: 12

Matt Foreman has been a leader in the LGBT rights movement for over 25 years and has served as Executive Director of the NYC Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (1990-1996), the Empire State Pride Agenda, the nation's then-largest statewide LGBT political advocacy organization (1997-2003), and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the nation's oldest and second-largest national LGBT rights organization (2003-2008). He is Program Director of a $9 million human rights program at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund; his views are conveyed as an individual and not in his capacity at the Haas, Jr. Fund.

Foreman is a founder of Heritage of Pride (organizers of New York City's lesbian and gay pride events), where he originated many hallmarks of the annual celebration. He also served for many years on the board of Dignity/NY, an organization of LGBT Catholics.

He is a 1982 graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was president of the Student Bar Association and a lead organizer of the 1979 national conference "Law and the Fight for Gay Rights."

Foreman is married to his partner of 20 years, Francisco De Leon. His parents reside in Ten Sleep, Wyoming.

(Photo credit: Linda Kliewer, Out and Out Productions)