Gay federal appointees.1975: The U.S. Civil Service Commission drops its ban on lesbians and gays in civilian government employment. 1979: President Jimmy Carter names Seattle lesbian Jill Schropp to the National Advisory Council on Women. 1987: President Ronald Reagan appoints Frank Lilly, a geneticist and former board member of Gay Men's Health Crisis The Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) is a non-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based AIDS service organization that has led the United States in the fight against AIDS. , to the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic The President’s Commission on the HIV Epidemic was a commission formed by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1987 to investigate the AIDS epidemic. It is also known as the Watkins Commission, for its chairman, James D. Watkins. . 1992: President George H.W. Bush names conservative lesbian Anne-Imelda Radice as acting chair of the National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. . 1993: President Bill Clinton appoints Roberta Achtenberg to become assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development Noun 1. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; "the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. . 1994: Clinton nominates Deborah A. Batts, an African-American lesbian, to the U.S. district court in New York. 1999: Clinton makes a recess appointment of gay philanthropist James C. Hormel as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. 2001: President George W. Bush appoints Scott Evertz as the first openly gay head of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy The Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) coordinates the continuing domestic efforts to reduce the number of new infections in the United States. In addition, the Office works to coordinate an increasingly integrated approach to the prevention, care and treatment of . He then appoints Michael Guest as U.S. ambassador to Romania. |
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