After 2 years serving as executive
director of gay GOP group Log Cabin Republicans, R. Clarke Cooper
will be leaving his post next year.
On Friday, the group's national board
of directors named Gregory T. Angelo as interim executive director.
He'll begin on January 2.
“I hope LGBT Republicans and our
allies who support freedom and liberty will join me in welcoming
Gregory T. Angelo as the interim executive director of Log Cabin
Republicans,” National Board Chairman Peter Bertelsen said in a
statement. “Gregory's longstanding involvement with Log Cabin as
leader of the New York State chapter, and his demonstrated ability
with grassroots advocacy as head of our sister think tank, the
Liberty Education Forum, make him the clear choice to continue the
significant strides made by Clarke Cooper over the last three years.”
Angelo, the current head of the group's
New York chapter, led the group's lobbying efforts in support of
marriage equality in New York. He supported former House Speaker
Newt Gingrich for president and was an alternate delegate for
Gingrich.
“There has never been a more exciting
and historic time to be a gay Republican – with the wind at our
backs following four referendum victories for the freedom to marry
last November and the United States Supreme Court soon to rule on
marriage equality, 2013 could mark a turning point in the fight for
equal rights for all,” said Angelo. “It has never been more
critical to advocate for equality to Republicans, as Republicans. As
the Interim Executive Director of this esteemed organization, I will
do everything I can to work for Republican victories that return the
party to its roots of freedom, fairness, and liberty for all.”