User:Marcloveless/Marc Loveless

Marc Loveless born March 23,1963 in Detroit, Michigan is a member of the grassroots leadership team that passed the Quality of Life Scratch-off Lottery Ticket. This act created in Illinois a new stream of funding for HIV/AIDS, This is the first of its kind funding stream that has generated over 6 million dollars for HIV/AIDS prevention and education making it the largest single fundraising program for this purpose in the state of Illinois and one of the largest in the country. He is also the Coordinator and lead community organizer of the Coalition for Justice and Respect (CJR), a African-American Same Gender Loving Black Lesbian and Gay social justice, civil rights, and service organization and Executive Director of the Lorraine Hansberry – Keith Barrow Community Empowerment Center the first African-American Same Gender Loving Black LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans) community center in Chicago. He is the principle consultant of Loveless Consulting a social marketing firm specializing in public policy, civil rights and social justice.

He is the former Interim National Director of Community Services Department for the RainbowPUSH Coalition. While in this position he also served as senior advisor to the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. on issues of HIV/AIDS and public policies on health and currently is assistant to the Executive Producer of Reverend Jackson’s national syndicated weekly radio show “Keep Hope Alive” heard in over 60 cities. Marc is also a founding member of Black Health Alert (BHA). BHA is a watchdog organization created to raise public and political awareness that advocates for social justice in Black Communities. As the BHA political director he was apart of the passage of the African-American HIV/AIDS Response Act. He is the organizer of the Critical Caucus a coalition of Black LGBT Chicago organizations.

Currently he is working on two book project regarding healthy living for Black Gay Men living in America. He is the first openly Gay elected official in the State of Illinois having served on the Local School Councils of two schools in the City of Chicago Pulaski Community Academy 1992-94 and then at Sabin Magnet School from 1998 until June 2000.

Marc was elected the 32nd Ward Committeeman in Chicago of the Harold Washington Party in 1996. In 2004 he was elected Ward Committeeman of the 48th Ward of the Green Party.

He has served as Secretary of the Black Caucus of the Green Party of the United States and former Chairman of the Electoral Action Working Group and a member of the National Coordinating Committee of Greens/Green Party, USA and a Single-Parent of his son Nathan.

Marc was the Public Policy Associate with Zonta International a worldwide service organization of businesswomen. A Freelance Paralegal since 1996 he has served on the Diversity Committee of Pitney Bowes Management Services and Board member of the Illinois Paralegal Association. He has been campaign and public policy consultant to many campaigns locally, nationally, and international including serving as the Peace Advocate Coordinator of the Illinois Green Party, and as Vice President of the Board of Directors of Project: REACH a tenant’s rights organization a part of Roger Park Community Action Network (RPCAN). Marc has been an invitational participant of White House Briefings with President William Jefferson Clinton and his cabinet, which have included topics of Urban Development and Education.

Marc is also the Former Residential Care and Housing Coordinator for the Kupona Network an AIDS services organization. He is the first Lesbian and Gay Liaison, Victim-Witness Coordinator, and Hate Crime Specialist for the Cook County State’s Attorney Office Chicago, Illinois. He is the founder of The Committee a political action organization of Black Gays and Lesbians as well as the Rocks Coordinating Committee of Chicago a community organization that organizes events that celebrate Lesbian and Gay Pride month.

His background includes past and current membership of the Board of Directors of Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization and the Humboldt Park Empowerment Project, Past President of Board of Director of the Near Northwest Neighborhood Network and Vice President of the Parish Council of St. Hedwig Roman Catholic Church. Marc has been a member of Franciscan Capuchin Third Order since 1985 and currently a member of Steering Committee of St. Gertrude’s Roman Catholic parish Gym Mass in Chicago for the past 6 years.