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Guide to Abbreviations and Terms
Below is a guide to key groups, federal departments, bills, and laws mentioned in Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage. For the sake of clarity, organization names and legislative abbreviations are spelled out frequently. But for some of the groups listed below, no abbreviations are used, especially when those abbreviations are not in common use.
ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
ACT UP: AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
ADAP: AIDS Drug Assistance Program
AFC: AIDS Foundation of Chicago
AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AFER: American Foundation for Equal Rights
AoA: Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
AVER: American Veterans for Equal Rights
BiNet USA: Umbrella group of bisexuals and others
CDC: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CFW: Chicago Foundation for Women
Courage Campaign, California-based national gay-rights group
DADT: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue, the military gay ban
DNC: Democratic National Committee
DOJ: U.S. Department of Justice
DOMA: Defense of Marriage Act
DPBOA: Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act
Equality Across America
ETHA: Early Treatment for HIV Act
EI: Equality Illinois
ENDA: Employment Non-Discrimination Act
EQCA: Equality California
FMLA: Family and Medical Leave Act
FEC: Family Equality Council
Faith in America, LGBT group
FDA: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FTM: Freedom to Marry
Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, also known as Victory Fund
GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
GetEQUAL: National gay direct-action group, not an abbreviation
GLAA: Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (Washington, D.C.)
GLAD: Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (Massachusetts)
GLAAD: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
GLN: Gay Liberation Network (Chicago, Illinois)
GMHC: Gay Men's Health Crisis (New York)
GOP: Grand Old Party, nickname for the Republican Party
GOTV: Get-out-the-vote efforts
HHS: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HRC: Human Rights Campaign
IGLHRC: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
IMPACT: 1980s-1990s Chicago gay political action committee, not an abbreviation
IVI-IPO: Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization
Join the Impact: National grassroots activist group
Lambda Legal: National gay legal organization
LCR: Log Cabin Republicans
LGBA: Lesbian and Gay Band Association
LGBT or GLBT: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
MSM: Men who have Sex with Men
NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAPWA: National Association of People with AIDS
NARAL Pro-Choice America: National Abortion Rights Action League
NBJC: National Black Justice Coalition
NCAVP: National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
NCLR: National Center for Lesbian Rights
NCTE: National Center for Transgender Equality
NEM: National Equality March
NGLCC: National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
NGLTF: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
NMAC: National Minority AIDS Council
NGO: Non-governmental organization
NOW: National Organization for Women
ONAP: White House Office of National AIDS Policy
OPE: White House Office of Public Engagement
OPM: U.S. Office of Professional Management
Personal PAC: Illinois-based pro-choice political action committee
PFAW: People For the American Way
PEPFAR: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
PFLAG: Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays
PGN: Philadelphia Gay News
Proposition 8: 2008 California voter initiative that banned gay marriage
POTUS: President of the United States
P.O.T.U.S.: Politics of the United States XM radio show
RNC: Republican National Committee
Ryan White CARE Act: Also known as Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act
SAGE: Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders, formerly known as Senior Action in a Gay Environment
SCOTUS: Supreme Court of the United States
SLDN: Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
SSC: Safe Schools Coalition
Stonewall Democrats: National and local chapters
DPBOA: Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act
UAFA: Uniting American Families Act
TWO: Truth Wins Out
UCC: United Church of Christ
Unid@s: National Latina/o LGBT human-rights organization
U.N.: United Nations
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