Our enemies list: Richard Nixon may have given enemies lists a bad name, but it's good to know about who is trying to fight equality at all costs. Here are some who plan to derail LGBT America in 2006.

James Dobson

The Granddaddy

Dobson, the infamous leader of the antigay right, is growing more and more powerful by the year. The folksy 69-year-old psychologist founded the D.C.-based Family Research Council and Focus on the Family as well as the latter's spin-off, Focus on the Family Action. And he's got plenty of minions. His 81-acre Colorado Springs compound reportedly gets so much mail that it has its own zip code.

Paul Cameron / Joseph Nicolosi

The "Science" Guys

Cameron, 66, is a discredited psychologist who has made it his purpose in life to disseminate wildly inaccurate "facts and figures" about gay men and lesbians under the auspices of the Family Research Institute, a nonprofit corporation he founded in 1982. In 1994 he spuriously claimed that the median age of death was 42 for HIV-negative gay men and 44 for lesbians. Second prize in this category goes to Nicolosi, cofounder and president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, a font of pseudo-Freudian misinformation about the origins of homosexuality.

Reverend Lou Shelson / Andrea Lafferty

The Sex Police

Sheldon and his daughter, Lafferty, operate the Traditional Values Coalition and do their best to put up roadblocks to gay equality, especially in California. These two are obsessed with sexuality. In 2004, The Washington Post described how they pore over sex ads in the gay press and argue over slang terms for various sex acts.

Peter LaBarbera

The Night Stalker

LaBarbera, head of the Illinois Family Institute and founder of Americans for Truth, is a heterosexually married crusader who goes undercover to gay sex clubs and events, on which he then reports with awestruck personal detail. At Chicago's 2005 International Mr. Leather conference, he was horrified to discover "a veritable cornucopia for the deviant," including "tons of the most disgusting pornography imaginable for sale at reduced prices." According to former "ex-gay" Wade Richards, LaBarbera has acquired a large porn collection and several leather outfits through his "research."

Mathew Staver/ Jay Sekulow

The Lawyers

More dangerous than lunatics are the lawyers, particularly the well spoken Staver, head of the Orlando, Fla.-based Liberty Counsel and a leader of the fight against marriage equality in the courts. Staver began the push for a federal constitutional amendment limiting marriage to straight couples. Just as bad is Sekulow, chief counsel for Pat Robertson's legal arm, the American Center for Law and Justice. He has testified in favor of the federal marriage amendment before a House Judiciary subcommittee.

Local enemies to watch out for:

Maryland

Don Dwyer, Republican state delegate from Anne Arundel County

Background: The founder of Defend Maryland Marriage, Dwyer is public enemy number 1 for gay activists in the state. At one point his Web site warned of the need to "expose vile attempts by militant homosexual activists to sodomize our children." A fan of former Alabama chief justice Roy "Ten Commandments" Moore, Dwyer has reportedly called same-sex affection and cross-dressing "stomach-turning." He has prefiled an antigay constitutional amendment for the 2006 legislative session.

Wisconsin

Julaine Appling, executive director, Family Research Institute of Wisconsin

Background: A graduate of Bob Jones University, Appling is leading the fight to qualify an antigay amendment for the 2006 ballot. Assuming the measure passes the next legislative session, it will go to the state's voters this fall. Appling has a deranged ally in incendiary preacher Ralph Ovadal, who in 2003 wrote to a gay college professor in Canada to warn him that he "will most surely spend eternity in the agony of hell."

Massachusetts

Kris Mineau, president, Massachusetts Family Institute

Background: Mineau is the main voice behind continued opposition to same-sex marriage at ground zero, where the fight for marriage rights has not ended. He leads a group that has started the lengthy process to qualify for the ballot a constitutional amendment that could end marriage equality in the Bay State in 2008.

California

Randy Thomasson, founder and president, the Campaign for Children and Families 

Background: Thomasson runs one of two groups pushing for ballot initiatives that would put a same-sex marriage ban in the state constitution. Thomasson's measure, the Voters' Right to Protect Marriage Initiative, also seeks to invalidate registered domestic partnerships now recognized under state law.

Arizona

Len Munsil, president, Center for Arizona Policy

Background: Munsil is the most visible Christian right leader in Arizona, where an anti-same-sex marriage constitutional amendment is in the petitioning stage. Same-sex marriage, he says, will consign "certain numbers of a future generation of children to living in a home where there will never even be the opportunity of having either a morn or a dad."

Michigan

Gary Glenn, president, American Family Association of Michigan

Background: A relentless foe of gay rights in every context, Glenn has kept LGBT activists on the defensive with a number of local antigay ballot measures, most of which failed. He was also instrumental in the statewide campaign in favor of the anti-same-sex marriage amendment to Michigan's constitution, which voters approved in November 2004.

Indiana

Eric Miller, founder, Advance America

Background: One of the leaders for an amendment that may be put before voters in 2008. He told lawmakers in 2005 that "we must amend our constitution to defend the definition of marriage between one man and one woman in order to protect our children, including those in kindergarten."