Media

2009

Career Coaching

  • April 28, 2009
    Following Your Dream in a Recession: a Conversation with Rich Tafel
    WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio
    Following Your Dream in a Recession: a Conversation with Rich Tafel. A local financial analyst was recently laid off...
    http://wamu.org/news/09/04/28.php

Social Change

  • April 26, 2009
    Abner Mason Corporate Responsibility Partners "Workplace Wellness"
    I started CRP along with my partners Rich Tafel and Robert Kabel as a response to request from companies we worked with while creating CONAES and JaBCHA...
    www.abnermason.com/FQA-abnermason.html

Politics

  • April 20, 2009
    Pandagon.net
    As Rich Tafel, the former president of the gay Log Cabin Republicans, pointed out to me last week, what Iowa giveth to the Democrats, Iowa taketh away from...
    http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/frank_rich_the_bigots_last_hurrah_is_it/
  • June 4, 2009
    "We've Got a Vision, We've Got a Plan" | Commentary | Advocate.com
    ... Rich Tafel is the president of RLT Strategies, the founding executive director of Log Cabin Republicans and author of Party Crasher: A Gay
    www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid87893.asp
  • May 15, 2009
    NPR: On the Hill, Gays Now Find Acceptance ... Mostly: - May 16
    ...But it's not that easy for everyone, says Rich Tafel, a former leader of the gay group the Log Cabin Republicans...
    www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104196355
  • May 12, 2009
    Miss America Booed Anti Gay - Marriage Answer - Soulforce
    Rich Tafel is president of RLT Strategies, which provides personal and organizational strategy. An ordained minister and founder...
    www.soulforce.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6233
  • April 26, 2009
    Telegraph: Miss California becomes Right-wing pin-up
    ...Rich Tafel, founder of the gay advocacy group the Log Cabin Republicans said: "I think it was a perfectly acceptable question...
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5225489/Miss-California-becomes-Right-wing-pin-up.html
  • April 30, 2009
    Equality Forum Day 4
    (Part 1): Politics 101 (Domestic... there were two identifiable Republicans on the panel (former Mass politician Guerriero and former Log Cabin Republican leader Richard Tafel),...
    http://wordinedgewise.org/blog/2009/04/30/equality-forum-day-4-part-1-politics-101-domestic/
  • June 7, 2009
    Documentary “Outrage”
    The House Next Door: The elixir of role-playing:
    Notes on: I ...“All the reporters are gay,” states Rich Tafel, the former executive director of Log Cabin Republicans. And in the footage of television anchors that the...
    http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2009/06/elixir-of-role-playing-notes-on-outrage.html
  • May 22, 2009
    Homosexual hypocrisy under the microscope -- chicagotribune.com
    ...The most arresting bit in "Outrage" comes from former Log Cabin head Rich Tafel, who came out years ago. Among certain circles -- the film...
    www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/chi-tc-mov-outrage-0520-
  • May 19, 2009
    Interview with Kirby Dick about his controversial new documentary
    ...One of the things that fascinate me the most involves Rich Tafel, who is a Republican who is out and is a fierce advocate for anyone in...
    www.filmindependent.org/filmmaker-blogs/1419
  • May 7, 2009
    Salon.com: Behind Washington's closet door - Beyond the Multiplex
    ...In the film, Rich Tafel has an interesting comment relating to that. He was executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans,...
    www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/05/07/kirby_dick/
  • May 7, 2009
    Newthinkamerica: The Twisted Psychology of Closeted Politicians
    ...Most alarming is Dick's recollection of a conversation with former Log Cabin Republican director Rich Tafel, who told him that some closeted...
    buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:92b6dc2414626aa2640fe4fd102b8605.../The-Twisted-Psychology-of-Closeted-Politicians
  • May 2, 2009
    CNN.com - Transcripts
    RICH TAFEL: To this day, I have not seen any place like it. So these probably like the gayest place. Unfortunately, it's probably still the ...
    transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0905/02/cnr.05.html
  • Chain Camera Pictures & Magnolia Pictures Present A MAGNOLIA
    Rich Tafel – Former executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans. President of RLT Strategies and author of “Party Crasher: A Gay Republican Challenges.
    www.magpictures.com/resources/presskits/outrage/outragefinalnotes.doc


2008

Politics

  • July 5, 2008
    AMC - Blogs - Future of Classic - "Family Values" vs. Valuing As Rich Tafel, head of the Log Cabin Republicans, argues in debates with religious-right opponents of his party, 'You can't have it both ...
    blogs.amctv.com/future-of-classic/2008/07/family-values-the-birdcage.php
  • February 4, 2008
    Organizing for America | BarackObama.com
    ...Rich Tafel, Formerly of National Log Cabin Republicans * Jeff Soukup, Board Member of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation...
    www.barackobama.com/2008/02/04/prominent_lgbt_supporters_of_s.php


2007

  • October 28, 2007
    Sermon: The Swedenborgian Church-Sermons - Healing Our Spiritual Blindness Healing Our Spiritual Blindness By the Rev. Rich Tafel
    ...Rich Tafel - Healing Our Spiritual Blindness, Rich Tafel...
    www.swedenborg.org/odb/sermon_detail.cfm?sermonID=3700 Politics
  • September 23, 2007
    OP-ED COLUMNIST: Pardon Poor Larry Craig - New York Times ... As Rich Tafel, the former executive director of the gay Log Cabin Republicans, points out, this internal contradiction could not hold once

Politics

  • July 18, 2007
    PARTY CRASHER: A GAY REPUBLICAN CHALLENGES POLITICS AS USUAL
    …is RICHARD TAFEL's take on gays and the political scene in the 1990s...
    calamusbooks.com/newsletters/7/4/index.html


2006

Social Change

  • Abner Mason, AIDS Responsibility Project, HIV/AIDS Prevention
    ARP in Brazil (from left) CRP Partner Rich Tafel, ARP's Abner Mason, Merck representative David Greeley, and USAID staffer...
    www.abnermason.com/ARP-pg1.html

Politics


2005

  • Sermons at the Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco
    Rich Tafel is a nationally known strategist with real world experience in the arena of health care, education, politics and human rights...
    www.sfswedenborgian.org/Sermons/sermons.asp


Social Change


2003

Career Strategy


Politics


2002

Politics

December 24, 2002
Tafel bows out - The Advocate
The national ...With the GOP's power at its zenith, now may seem like an odd time for Rich Tafel to leave Log Cabin Republicans, the gay political group he cofounded 12
www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-26978823_ITM 2001


2001

  • June 9, 2001
    Falwell and bin Laden: Kissing Cousins? File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML by Rich Tafel, M.Div. In June 1998, I was invited to speak at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas outside the GOP state convention that summer...
    www.libertyeducationforum.org/downloads/6a_tafel11_1.pdf


2000

Politics

  • La Cage au George W.
    Richard Tafel, the executive director of Log Cabin, is an American Baptist minister who spent six years under the tutelage of the Harvard Divinity School...
    www.commondreams.org/views/040800-103.htm
  • April 8, 2000
    CUTLINE
    Rich Tafel, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, has been at odds with Bush for months...
    www.sfgate.com/c/a/2000/04/08/MN27825.DTL
  • OutSmart - This Issue
    But distinctly absent from the meeting was the national leadership of Log Cabin itself, including its national ex ecutive director Rich Tafel.
    www.outsmartmagazine.com/issue/i05-00/in.html


1999

Politics

  • February 12, 1999
    Popular Articles, Stories & Photos - Los ...
    ... Southern Strategy Has Bottomed Out. By RICHARD TAFEL .... Rich, articles.latimes.com/1999/feb/12
  • December 6, 1999
    Testing the Teflon | Texas Weekly ... Richard Tafel, who heads the gay group called the Log Cabin Republicans, on Gov. Bush's reluctance to meet: "Ten years ago his father met
    www.texasweekly.com/newsletter/tw19991206.html
  • December 3, 1999
    Lead News Stories from the Gay People's Chronicle
    ...Log Cabin director Rich Tafel took issue with Bush's statement about groups. "He meets with scores of groups, including the Christian ...
    www.gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories/99dec03.htm
  • November 23, 1999
    $temp$ SIZE: L = SLUG: BUSH
    ``If you call yourself `a uniter, not a divider,' and a `compassionate conservative,' you would think you would meet with people,'' said Rich Tafel, www.sfgate.com/c/a/1999/11/23/MN89743.DTL
  • April 28, 1999
    Amazon.com: Party Crasher: A Gay Republican Challenges Politics as...
    As the executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, a political action committee for gay conservatives, Richard Tafel is used to criticism and scorn.
    www.amazon.com/Party-Crasher-Republican-Challenges-Politics/dp/0684837641
  • RICH TAFEL. - Free Online Library
    Free Online Library: RICH TAFEL.(Review, Brief Article) by "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)"; News, opinion and commentary Book ...
    www.thefreelibrary.com/RICH+TAFEL-a054939075
  • Party Crasher: A Gay Republican Challenges Politics as Usual ...
    Rich Tafel has done a marvelous job of explaining why "gay Republican" isn't an oxymoron (or shouldn't be). This is a fast-read (I read it in one sitting)...
    www.amazon.co.uk/Party-Crasher-Republican-Challenges-Politics/dp/0684837641
  • Abstracts: Burt Rutan. Dikembe Mutombo. Richard L. Tafel
    Biography of Richard L. Tafel discusses his coming out as a young man, political campaign stints and how he has transformed the Log Cabin Republicans into a...
    www.faqs.org/abstracts/History/Burt-Rutan-Dikembe-Mutombo.html
  • News from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    Richard Tafel, Director of Gay Republican Organization, to Speak on Gay Rights and ... Princeton, N.J. -- Richard Tafel, executive director of the Log Cabin ...
    www.princeton.edu/pr/news/99/q2/0413-tafel.htm
  • 200 Famous Libertarians
    Richard Tafel (Head of the Log Cabin Republicans) Joan Kennedy Taylor David J. Theroux Clifford Thies Mark Thornton Don L. Don Lobo Tiggre Tiggre (Author) ...
    www.geocities.com/~freewillie/FAMOUS-LIBERTARIANS.html


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1994

  • GQ magazine: "He's Here, He's Queer, He's Republican"
    -- GQ magazine published my profile of gay GOP activist Rich Tafel in 1994. The magazine's fact-checkers,as I recall ...
    www.patrickjkiger.com/pjk032709_004.htm


1988

  • July - August 1991
    Harvard Magazine: Ivy League theology
    Richard Tafel, a former HDS student, has written: .... Richard Tafel, "And from My Lips Will Come What Is Right,"


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