Stonewall has communicated to the Democratic National Committee the need to have a strong, established LGBT outreach program that is able to effectively express the strategic interests of our community.

We are lobbying the DNC to hire more staff to support the current work of Donald Hitchcock, while hiring openly-LGBT organizers for Democratic efforts and campaigns across the country. Stonewall is also pressing for the appointment of more openly-LGBT members of the Democratic National Committee. This will help grow the size and voice of the DNC's Gay & Lesbian Americans Caucus, which has been a vocal proponent for a full-time LGBT Outreach Director and for increasing DNC operations targeting the LGBT community. Looking to the future, we are already working with community activists to increase the number of LGBT delegates at the 2008 Democratic National Convention and working to place many of those delegates in positions to determine the direction and platform of our party for the next decade.

Our organization is separate from the Democratic National Committee, and we have already begun implementing our own efforts for the 2006 elections, opening regional offices and hiring local community activists. While we continue to lobby on behalf of our community with individual Democratic campaigns, we support efforts to bring about a full-time position to implement grassroots LGBT outreach for the Democratic National Committee.

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Mentions of DNC, Democratic, Democrats: 8
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