page_title: Patrick Guerriero
section_title: Log Cabin Republicans
hierarchical_section_title: Patrick Guerriero / Advocacy / Log Cabin Republicans
caption_attribution_description: Patrick Guerriero, President of the Log Cabin Republicans, on the Political Stage at the 2006 Utah Pride Fesitval. www.utahpride.org
context_page_description: Patrick Guerriero, a former Massachusetts state legislator, mayor and advocate for marriage equality, is a founding partner of Civitas Public Affairs Group, a Washington, D.C.-based government affairs firm. Working on the local, state and federal level for two decades, Guerriero has advised and counseled many of the nation's leading Democratic and Republican elected officials and political donors on a wide range of issues. Civitas Public Affairs Group, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Boston, provides bipartisan government relations, issue-based donor-giving strategies, and public-policy campaign management to individuals, non-profits and corporations.
  From September 1, 2006 to June 30, 2011, Guerriero served as the founding executive director of Gill Action, an issue advocacy group with offices in Washington, DC and Denver, Colorado. At Gill Action, Guerriero managed nationwide political operations and supported successful gubernatorial and legislative candidates in various states. He also advocated for passage of state laws on nondiscrimination and relationship recognition.
context_section_description: On January 1, 2003, Guerriero succeeded Rich Tafel as the leader of the Log Cabin Republicans.  While at Log Cabin he praised the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's 2003 decision in the case of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health as a conservative ruling supporting stable families, relationships, and society, limited government, individual liberty, and religious freedom. In early 2004, Patrick earned national recognition for successfully challenging President George W. Bush - launching the first national television ad that helped defeat Bush's proposed Federal Marriage Amendment. In October 2004, Patrick filed Log Cabin Republicans v. United States challenging the constitutionality of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.  It was not until the White House came under Democratic control, however, that any significant legislative progress toward the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was made.  U.S. President Barack Obama signed the legislation repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in December 2010.
  In 2013, Guerriero was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.
caption: Guerriero on stage at the 2006 Utah Pride Festival
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