Return to Gill and the Gay Agenda Page

 

Tim Gill and Like-Minded Donors

Behind the scenes, software mogul Tim Gill and his friends are ambitiously campaigning to remake American politics in accord with homosexual activism.

Homosexual multi-millionaire Tim Gill and his like-minded friends have shrewdly target ed key legislative races to defeat candidates who support traditional marriage and family values. In 2004, Gill and his friends poured millions into Colorado races and gave control of the Legislature to those favoring the homosexual agenda. In 2006, he expanded, targeting 70 key races (in Colorado and other states) and winning an astonishing 50!

In 2008, Gill has even bigger plans. In addition to donations to oppose marriage amendments in California and Florida, Gill and like-minded contributors have again donated to influence a number of state congressional races.

Ruth Adar

In addition to supporting candidates, Adar has donated $10,000 to defeat Proposition 8 in California. Adar, who lives in Oakland, Calif., donates to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and other gay organizations. She is a visiting rabbi at the congregation Ner Tamid. Adar was a rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. She is originally from Nashville, Tenn. She holds a B.A. from the University of Tennessee, and graduated from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Adar has worked as a potter, writer and teacher.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=56633603219962

http://www.victoryfund.org/files/media/2006_vf_annual_report_final.pdf

Troy Benavidez

In addition to supporting candidates in New York and Wisconsin, Benavidez is a former national board member of the Log Cabin Republicans. He is a native of New Mexico. He lives in Philadelphia and works in the pharmaceutical field.

http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/?ak=2046

Annie Bridges

In addition to various candidate contributions in Colorado, Bridges helped her husband found his Bighorn Center to impact Colorado politics. They have donated millions to various 527 and PAC organizations, earning status as one of the “four millionaires” who are re-shaping the state’s government—along with Jared Polis, Tim Gill, and Pat Stryker. They reside in Littleton, Colorado and are active in philanthropy.

http://www.sos.state.co.us/cpf/ContribCriteriaPage.do;jsessionid=0000T9A0Q3JGOU7XrCiUkSR3_D8:11mk6e6e1

David Bohnett

In addition to supporting candidates in California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina and New Mexico, Bohnett has donated $600,000 to oppose Proposition 8 in California. Last year, he donated $100,000 to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. Bohnett resides in Beverly Hills, Calif.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=63234935041710

Ross Draegert

Draegert is cofounder of Wisconsin’s Cream City Foundation Birch Lodge Fund, which donates to gay and lesbian individuals and causes. He and his partner, Robert Starshak, gave $100,000 to fight Wisconsin’s marriage amendment, which passed in 2006. Draegert also supports Action Wisconsin, which fights for homosexual rights. Draegert lives in Fox Point, Wis.

http://www.mkelgbthist.org/people/peo-s/starshak_robert.htm

Adam Freed

In addition to supporting candidates in Colorado, Iowa, Montana, New York and Wisconsin, Freed has donated to pro-homosexual groups, including the Empire State Pride Agenda PAC. He has been the director of International Product Management for Google since 2004. He lives in San Francisco.

http://www.internetstrategyforum.org/events/bio_adam_freed.html

Esmond Harmsworth

In addition to supporting candidates in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, Harmsworth has given $125,000 to oppose Proposition 8 in California. He also supports the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. Harmsworth is a literary agent.

http://veraluxmedia.com/people/harmsworth.htm

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=50135141434257

Mel Heifetz

In addition to supporting candidates in Colorado, Iowa, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Heifetz has donated to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Emily’s List. He also has given $1,000 to oppose Proposition 8 in California. Heifetz owns Me Heifetz Real Estate, in Philadelphia.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=36535193684126

Jim Hooker

In addition to supporting candidates in Iowa, Montana, New York and Wisconsin, Hooker has given $25,000 to oppose Proposition 8 in California. He gave $1.5 million to support the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which is dedicated to gay and lesbian issues. Hooker lives in Los Angeles.

http://www.law.ucla.edu/WilliamsInstitute/about/FoundersCouncil.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=40535254251690

Robert Kohl

In addition to supporting candidates in Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, New Mexico, New York and Wisconsin, Kohl has funded the fight against Proposition 8 in California. He is chairman of the board at Chicago’s Center on Halsted, a leading gay organization.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=41535256875159

http://www.centeronhalsted.org/team.html

William C. Lewis

In addition to supporting candidates in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, New York and Wisconsin, Lewis has donated to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Emily’s List. He funded the effort that defeated Arizona’s marriage amendment in 2006. Lewis is a self-employed investor in Arizona.

http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2006/11/27/story9.html

Carol Master

In addition to supporting candidates in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, New York and Wisconsin, Master has given $10,000 to oppose Proposition 8 in California. She is “married” to her partner and lives in Watertown, Mass.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=16735730070678

Weston F. Milliken

In addition to supporting candidates in California, Colorado, Michigan, New York, Texas and Wisconsin, Milliken has given $25,000 to oppose Proposition 8 in California. He works closely with the Gill Foundation.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=581357324641015

http://cue-consulting.com/biography.html

Jared Polis

In addition to supporting candidates in Colorado, Montana and Wisconsin, Polis has donated to pro-homosexual groups. He is the Democratic nominee for U.S. representative from Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District. The businessman from Boulder, Colo., was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000, and was named a Top 10 young entrepreneur by Success Magazine. Polis served on the Colorado Board of Education, and served on many other civic boards.

http://www.jaredpolis.com/bio

William Resnick

In addition to supporting candidates in Florida, Iowa, Montana, New Mexico, New York and Wisconsin, Resnick is a platinum supporter of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center. He is a psychiatrist in California.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?zip=90048&last=Resnick&first=William

Cathy Salser

Salser, formerly a teacher, supports candidates in California.

http://www.suzeorman.com/aboutsuze/saywhat_avon35.cfm

George Soros

In addition to supporting candidates in New York, Soros is founder of the Open Society Institute, which gives approximately $400 million annually to advance his views. He has given more than $40,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600882_pf.html

http://www.soros.org/about/bios/a_soros

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/donor_lookup.php?name=soros,%20george

Jon Stryker

In addition to supporting candidates in Florida, Michigan and New Mexico, Stryker has given $1,055,000 to defeat Proposition 8 in California. He founded the Arcus Foundation, which funds gay and lesbian causes. Stryker is the heir to the health-care behemoth Stryker Corp. and was listed No. 428 on the 2006 Forbes list of the world’s richest people. The Chronicle of Philanthropy estimates Stryker has given away nearly $250 million in the last decade.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/3P2X.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=88335779850869

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080516/POLITICS/805160367&imw=Y

In addition to supporting candidates in Colorado, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island, Tobias has given $5,000 to defeat Proposition 8 in California. He was voted one of Out Magazine’s 50 most influential homosexuals.

Tobias, who lives in Miami, is treasurer for the Democratic National Convention. In 2005, he served as grand marshal of New York City’s Gay Pride Parade.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=17535783987949

http://www.andrewtobias.com/

Henry van Ameringen

In addition to supporting candidates in New Mexico and New York, van Ameringen has donated to pro-homosexual groups, including the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.

http://www.activistcash.com/biography.cfm/bid/534

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?zip=10011&last=AMERINGEN&first=HENRY

Charles R. “Chuck” Williams

In addition to supporting candidates in Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Williams has given $50,000 to defeat Proposition 8 in California. He founded the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which is dedicated to gay and lesbian issues, and has given more than $10 million to support the institute.

http://echelonmagazine.com/index.php?id=26

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-metro-prop-8%2C0%2C2463893.htmlstory?appSession=15735826232746

Return to Gill and the Gay Agenda Page