Sean Kosofsky

Email Address: sean@bilerico.com

Location: Detroit, MI

Project Contributor Since: July 2007

Entries by this Contributor: 30

Sean Kosofsky, Director of Policy of Triangle Foundation, has been active in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community since early 1994. Since he began this work he has become one of the most visible, recognizable and accomplished GLBT activists in Michigan. He is also known nationally for his work.

Kosofsky is the most sought-after GLBT diversity trainer in Michigan for law enforcement professionals, but he also has extensive experience training social workers, school professionals, attorneys, business professionals and service providers. Kosofsky conducts trainings on critical activist skills including message development, media advocacy, lobbying, grassroots activism and youth/student advocacy.

Kosofsky joined the staff of Triangle Foundation in the fall of 1996. He has been responsible for a wide range of projects including the Anti-Violence Project and creating the first-ever statewide network of grassroots activists who monitored the media, communicated with policy makers and appeared as public speakers.

Kosofsky works at every level of public and private policy development in Michigan to advance pro-GLBT policies and defeat anti-GLBT legal and political attacks. He is responsible helping to produce most of Triangle's issue papers, talking points and other policy materials.

His campaign work has ranged from running canvass operations, working with media professionals, fundraising, and training volunteer speakers. Kosofsky is on the board of the Equality Federation, the largest GLBT lobbying and activist entity in the nation. As a board member and former co-chair of the Equality Federation he works to aggressively grow state and local GLBT activism in every U.S. State and territory.

Kosofsky writes a bi-weekly column (All Politics is Loco) for Michigan’s largest GLBT newspaper, Between the Lines. He also writes for the Progressive Media Project, based in Madison, Wisconsin, which has helped place his opinion pieces in newspapers across the country.

Kosofsky has received numerous awards from the GLBT community including the 1997 Rising Star award and the 2002 Prism Award, the Political Award and the Spirit of Detroit Award from the Detroit City Council.

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  - Gina de Vries

• A disgrace to the Man Race

  - Alex Blaze

• Cloaked in Bigotry and All Wrapped Up in Pearls

  - Steve Ralls

• Queer Time

  - Paige Schilt

• Florida Fundies using Trans-Scare Tactics

  - Waymon Hudson

• Obama 60-14 among LGBT voters

  - Alex Blaze

• When Batman Was Gay

  - Tyrion Lannister

• Top Ten Check List for Same-Sex Couples Marrying in California

  - Michael Crawford

• Fight Against AZ Marriage Amendment Advances

  - Serena Freewomyn

• Officials Change California's Prop 8 Language on Ballot

  - Waymon Hudson

• Heath Ledger Tribute

  - Abigail Hannon

• Lesbians on Gray's Anatomy

  - Alex Blaze