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AVER ELECTS PRESIDENT FOR POST DADT ERA

AMERICAN VETERANS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS

Denver, September 23rd, 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
AVER Public Affairs: 718 849-5665 publicaffairs@aver.us
President: Steve Loomis: 505-301-1737  Email:  sloomis@swcp.com

Re: AVER ELECTS PRESIDENT FOR POST DADT ERA

American Veterans For Equal Rights, America’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender veteran’s service organization, serving active service members and veterans since 1990, has elected Lieutenant Colonel Steve Loomis, US Army Ret., as president at its bi-yearly national convention in Denver.  LTC Loomis will lead the activist organization through the early post DADT era, focusing on equal benefits, advocacy, and equal treatment of all service members and veterans.

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Membership

Membership in AVER includes both National and Chapter yearly fees. Membership benefits include receiving AVER’s National Newsletter – The Forward Observer, discounted rates for national events, such as our biennial convention, and many others…

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Chapters

AVER Local Chapters are located in:

CA . CO . DC . DE . FL . GA . HI . IL . IN . MO . MN . NC . NM . NY . OH . TN . TX . WA

For the prevention of spam, email addresses are not listed on this page. To contact chapters by email, please use the contact forms accessible via the menu to the left.

California

  
Los Angeles

President – Apolonio E. Muñoz III
Voice : 626.806.5717
Website: aver-gla.org
Palm Springs

President – Mel Tips
PO Box 5012
Palm Springs, CA 92263-5012
Voice: 760.329.6560
See Dedicatory program for the
Palm Springs Veterans Memorial
Sacramento

Sacramento Valley Veterans
President – Ty Redhouse
Website: sacvalleyvets.com
San Diego

AVER, San Diego Chapter
President – Ben M. Gomez
4076 Oregon Street, Unit #2
San Diego, CA 92104
Voice: 619.459.1019
San Diego Chapter Web Site

Colorado

  
Denver – Rocky Mountain Chapter

President – John Kelley
1818 Marion Apt 802
Denver, CO 80218
Voice : 303.284.7967
Facebook: AVER-RMC

  

Delaware

  
Chapter in Formation:
Rehoboth Beach

For more information, please contact
Region II Vice President – Danny Ingram

  

District of Columbia

  
Greater DC Area

The National Capital Chapter is looking to reactivate.
For more information, please contact
Region II Vice President – Danny Ingram

  

Florida

  
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale

AVER – Florida Gold Coast
President – Marshall Belmaine

P.O.Box 11247
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33339
Voice: 954.486.9406
Website: aver-fgc.org
Chapter in Formation:
Tampa

For more information, please contact
Region II Vice President – Danny Ingram

Georgia

  
Atlanta

AVER Georgia
President – Alejandro Lopez
P.O. Box 2115
Decatur, GA 30031
Voice: 404.429.1316
Website: avergeorgia.webs.com

  

Hawaii

  
Honolulu

AVER Hawaii
President – Sean Smith
2092 Kuhio Avenue #1705
Honolulu, HI 96815
Voice: 808.497.0650
Website: averhawaii.com

  

Illinois

  
Chicago

Gay Chicago Veterans
President – James C. Darby
PO Box 29317
Chicago, IL 60629
Voice: 773.752.0058
Website: averchicago.org

  

Indiana 

  
Indianapolis
 
AVER INDYana
President – Scott Spychla 
Voice: 317.966.0135
  

Missouri

  

St. Louis

The St. Louis chapter is looking to reactivate.
For more information, please contact
Region IV Vice President – Steve Loomis.

  

New Mexico

  
Albuquerque

AVER Bataan Chapter
Contact – Steve Loomis
6027 Black Ridge Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87120-2181
Voice: 505.301.1737
AVER Bataan Chapter Website

  

New York

  
New York

AVER New York (AVERNY)
PO Box 150160
Kew Gardens, NY 11415
President – Denny Meyer
Voice: 718.849.5665
AVERNY Website

 Chapter in Formation:
Rochester

For more information, please contact
Region I Vice President – Denny Meyer.

North Carolina

 
Charlotte

AVER of North Carolina
Founder: Cecilio Orta
3812 Dry Brook Road, Unit J
Charlotte, NC 28269
Voice: 704.900.2905
Website: avernc.org

  

Ohio

  
Buckeye Region
(Columbus & Central Ohio)
BRAVER
President – Lee Reinhart
See Region I contact page.		 NorthEastern Ohio
(Cleve/Ak/Can/Young)
NEOAVER
For more information, please contact
Local POC – Marie Bohusch
Website: neoaver.org

Tennessee

  
Memphis

AVER West Tennessee
President – Tim Smith
See Region II contact page.

  

Texas

  
Houston

Houston AVER
For more information, please contact
Region IV Vice President – Steve Loomis.

 San Antonio

AVER – San Antonio
President – Robert O. Weeks
9915 Powhatan Drive #6-H
San Antonio, TX 78230-2228
Voice: 210.722.0873
Website: aversanantonio.com
South Texas

President – Dan Pugh

 Texas Chapters in Formation:

Austin
For more information, please contact
Region IV Vice President – Steve Loomis.

Washington

  

Seattle

AVER Puget Sound is looking to reactivate.
For more information, please contact
Region V Vice President – Julz Carey.

  

Chapters in Formation

AVER chapters are forming in:
Austin, TX
Minneapolis – St. Paul, MN
Rehoboth Beach, DE
Rochester, NY
Tampa, FL

For information about these forming chapters or for information on forming a chapter in an area not yet listed, please contact our Membership Director via the National Officers Contact page.

AVER Sponsorship

AVER is a 501(c)3 volunteer non-profit organization. As such, beyond basic membership dues, we are largely dependent on outside fundraising, donations and sponsorship gifts, both at the national and local chapter levels. We very much appreciate the generosity both within and without the organization, and extend many thanks to those listed below.

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All gifts to AVER are tax deductible. To receive proper receipts for any donation of $250 or more, we require your return address. Regardless of the size of your gift, PayPal will email an electronic receipt to you for your records.

To see our Convention Sponsors, click here.

The following general sponsorships
have been pledged since the AVER
2005 National Convention:

Plank Owner – $500

anonymous
Lara Ballard
John Brady
Thomas T. Carpenter & Art Andrade
MAJ Jeffery M. Cleghorn, USA (Ret.)
Michael-Todd Kilmer, M.S.W. & Tim Breidigan
Ken Sholes
Tony Smith
Essayons – $250

John Ames
James Apedaile
Robert Stout
Flight Line – $150

James P. Donovan
Bill Joseph Helwig
Edward L. Modesto
Gigi B. Sohn
William T. Winnewisser
Grunts – $75

Francis Allen
Donna L. Groman
Fredric J. Mulvihill
Demetrio Munoz
Father Philip G. Salois, MS
Hank Thomas

The following have made donations
to help offset the cost of the
AVER 2007 National Convention:

In-kind donations have been made by the following:
CLAW traded a full page 2007 program advertisement with AVER, and has provided an information table for AVER during CLAW 2006-2008.

American Airlines
American Airlines Advantage miles program		 American Airlines has provided
a 5% group flight discount.

AVIS AVIS Rent A Car System has
provided a car rental group
discount rate.

SLDN SLDN has generously donated a
number of items for attendees’
“goodie bags.”
Level VI
– $500.00+
Georgie's Alibi Video Bar, Cafe, and Sports Bar - free WiFi spot
Georgie's Alibi Video Bar, Cafe, and Sports Bar - free WiFi spot Georgie's Alibi Video Bar, Cafe, and Sports Bar - free WiFi spot Georgie's Alibi Video Bar, Cafe, and Sports Bar - free WiFi spot
Level V
– $250.00-$499.00

Log Cabin Republicans

AVER Florida Gold Coast Chapter
Level IV
 – $150.00-$249.99

Equality Ohio . org

CheckMark Services, Inc. Accounting and Tax Practice

SLDN Note: This donation is in addition to the
generous in-kind donation listed above.

Ron T. Clarke – AVER Region IV VP

Level III
 – $80.00-$149.00

TAVA Ohio Chapter

Body Language - Cleveland Ohio

Chicago Chapter of AVER

Level II
 – $45.00-$79.99

OUTlandish

Bill Mullins
Dick Rogers

Level I
 – $25.00-$44.99

Enlistee
 – up to $24.99

Amy Mundhenk
Bruce

Please note: some sponsors are not listed due to their request for anonymity. Because some of our veterans and civilian members still cannot be “out” in every aspect of their lives, AVER always has and always will respect such wishes.