OutFront Minnesota

OutFront Minnesota
Motto	Leading Minnesota Toward GLBT Equality[1]
Formation	1987
Purpose/focus	LGBT rights
Headquarters	Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)[2]
Region served	Minnesota (USA)
Staff	7
Website	www.outfront.org

OutFront Minnesota is a LGBT rights organization in the United States state of Minnesota.

Its mission is To make our state a place where GLBT Minnesotans have the freedom, power, and confidence to make the best choices for their own lives.

The organization is community-based, and uses paid memberships and other fundraising to support its activities, as well as receiving support from foundations and corporations. OutFront Minnesota has had a profound effect upon gay and lesbian equality in both urban and rural Minnesota since its founding in 1987.^{[citation needed]}

Each year, OutFront Minnesota sponsors the a lobby day in the state capitol in St. Paul, called "justFair Lobby Day".

OutFront Minnesota led the historic effort to amend the state's Human Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity, a change which was finally achieved in 1993. OutFront Minnesota also led a successful three-year campaign to defeat an anti-equality constitutional amendment to bar Minnesota's same-sex couples from marrying.

OutFront Minnesota provides a host of unique programs to support the GLBT and allied community including Anti-Violence, Community Organizing, Legal, Education and Training, and Public Policy which includes lobbying the state legislature.

OutFront Minnesota is a proud member of United ENDA, a national campaign to ensure transgender persons are included in national employment nondiscrimination legislation. OutFront Minnesota was one of the first organizations in the country to include transgender people in its mission statement. The organization works in coalition with approximately 30 state and national partners in the GLBT and progressive movements.^{[citation needed]}

In early 2008, OutFront Minnesota experienced the departure of its longtime founding executive director, Ann DeGroot, a visionary leader respected and admired statewide and nationally. Monica Meyer is the current executive director.

OutFront Minnesota has a professional staff, is overseen by a board of directors, and works with hundreds of volunteers every year.

See also

LGBT portal

• LGBT rights in the United States

References

1. ^ http://outfront.org
2. ^ http://www.outfront.org/contactus

External links

• Outfront Minnesota Online
• Tretter Collection