Terry Bean Pushes for a New Generation of LGBTQ+ Leadership and Accountability
Michigan, US, 10th July 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, Terry Bean, now 76, has spent more than half a century building power, equity, and visibility for the LGBTQ+ community, in Oregon. A nationally recognized figure, Bean co-founded the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. Through fundraising, grassroots organizing, and political strategy, he helped push LGBTQ+ rights from the political margins into the national conversation. But today, with the political climate turning hostile once again, Bean is making a new demand of the movement he helped shape: accountability.
“We’re no longer fighting to be seen,” Bean says. “We’re fighting to ensure the people who claim to represent us actually deliver on the promises they make.”
His message is both urgent and clear: visibility is n...