Richard J. Rosendall was president of the Gay and Lesbian
Activists Alliance of Washington, DC (GLAA) for three years ending in January 1999.
He is currently GLAA's Vice President for Political Affairs.
He received GLAA's Distinguished Service Award in April 1999. He is a contributor
to the
Independent Gay Forum,
a nonprofit website launched in 1999, and the
Liberty
Education Forum, launched in 2001. His commentaries have appeared in
The Washington Blade and other gay newspapers.
In 1981 he
co-founded the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW),
which he served as public relations director from 1985 to 1996. He received GMCW's Circle of Excellence Award in 1992. He has been active with the
Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses,
and sang at its first five choral festivals (1983, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1996). 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. For several years beginning in 1997, he represented GLAA as a founding member of the NAACP-DC Metropolitan Police and Criminal Justice Review Task Force. In 1997-1998, he served on the D.C. Citizens Advisory Committee on the Selection of the Chief of Police. 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 http:"//users.starpower.net/rrosendall/".
