GLAA 2010 Officers

Wood was active with the Gay Rights National Lobby during the early 1980s, fundraising and working phone banks to mobilize community opposition to the 1981 effort by Congress to overturn the DC sodomy repeal law. As part of a contingent of nearly 500 student leaders, he was arrested outside the South African Embassy in Washington during TransAfrica’s anti-apartheid protests in 1985.

Wood has been active in several AIDS advocacy and ministry organizations, including Whitman-Walker Clinic, the NAMES Project, the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition and the Episcopal Caring Response to AIDS (ECRA), for which he served as secretary and president (1997).

A lifelong Episcopalian, Wood was a member of Integrity-Washington. He served two terms on the vestry of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Dupont Circle, where he continues to be active with fundraising, communications, education, and worship activities. In November 2000, as part of a 100-strong group from Soulforce and Dignity/USA, he was arrested at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception during the annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to protest the exclusionary policies of the church toward gay Catholics.

Wood also has volunteered for the Human Rights Campaign, served on the steering committee for the District’s Equality Begins at Home campaign and is a supporter the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and Lambda Legal.

Along with his partner of 11 years, Gary Collins, a 20-year U.S. Navy veteran, Wood has participated in activities of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and the DC chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER). Professionally, Wood is graphic designer for the communications & marketing department of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).

Vice President for Political Affairs Richard J. Rosendall was president of GLAA for three years ending in January 1999. He received GLAA's Distinguished Service Award in April 1999. He is a columnist, writing "Holding the Center” for the Boston gay newspaper Bay Windows and "Center Field" for Washington's Metro Weekly. His work has appeared in Salon.com and FrontPageMagazine.com. He is a contributor to Independent Gay Forum and Liberty Education Forum. He co-founded the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) in 1981, served as its public relations director from 1985 to 1996, and received its Circle of Excellence Award in 1992. He was active with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses in the 1980s and 1990s, and attended its first five choral festivals. He produced benefit performances by the gay male vocal quintet The Flirtations for the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League in 1991. His interest in international activism led him to persuade both GLAA and GALA Choruses to join the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), whose conferences he attended in 1993 and 1994. In 1996 he launched world wide web sites for GLAA and GMCW, and he continues to administer the GLAA site. He is a founding member of the NAACP-DC Metropolitan Police and Criminal Justice Review Task Force. He participated in "celebrity roast" fundraisers for DC's Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day in 1996 and 1997. He wrote and officiated at a gay wedding ceremony for friends in October 1994. He is a native Washingtonian. His personal webpage is at www.holdingthecenter.net. (Photo by Patsy Lynch)

Vice President for Administration Kevin Davis has been a GLAA member since 1998. He previously served as president, administrative vice president & secratary.  Kevin is employed by Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a Bethesda based real estate investment trust company. Kevin is an "Unsung Hero" awardee for the Mautner Project (2006). Mautner is a national lesbian heath organization. Volunteering since 1999 and in 2001-present Kevin has helped  coordinate Mautner's annual GALA benefit. Mautner educates all women on women's health issues regardless of sexual orientation.

Secretary Miguel Tuason is originally from the Philippines, and moved to McLean, Virginia in 1981. He moved to New York City for school and, after departing Fordham University (College at Lincoln Center), he worked as a Broadway publicist at Boneau/Bryan-Brown (1993-98), James LL Morrison and Associates (1998-99), and the Pete Sanders Group (1999-2001). During that period, he worked with such clients as Disney Theatrical Productions (Beauty and the Beast, King David and the Lion King), the Really Useful Group (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Sunset Boulevard), Drama Dept., LAByrinth Theatre Company, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Signature Theatre Company, Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!, Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat in Annie Get Your Gun, Lebo M, Tap Dogs, among others.

As the publicist for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (1994-98), Miguel helped to develop and executed the media and marketing strategies for all of BC/EFA's events, annual fundraisers, and initiatives including: Gypsy of the Year; the Easter Bonnet Competition; Broadway Bares; Broadway Bears; In Celebration of Life; the Broadway Cares Flea Market; and numerous one-night-only galas.

In 2001, he moved to Prague. There, he was the Managing Editor of the English-language magazine, think again; and he co-directed and stage managed the Czech premiere of Out at Sea by Slawomir Mrozek. Finally, he also worked as Internal Communications Manager for the mobile phone company, Oskar (now Vodafone).

In late 2004, Miguel returned to his hometown, where he now lives in Arlington and serves as the Bids and Proposals Director and Creative Director for TCS Translations, a DC-based federal language services provider.

Treasurer Gary Collins is a native of Columbus, Ohio. He spent twenty years in the United States Navy deployed on aircraft carriers and worked as an a P-3 Orion aviation flight crew engineer, retiring from active duty in January 2000. He currently works at Joint Services Base Andrews as a commercial truck driver and fuels lab technician.

Gary has attended Service Members Legal Defense Network Lobby Days to advocate for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and as a member of American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER), served as treasurer for AVER’s DC Chapter. He has been a member of GLAA for the last three years. Gary lives in Northeast Washington, DC, with his partner of 13 years.