Terry Dolan (US political figure)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an American New Right political operative who was co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). [The Cautious Closet of the Gay Conservative; In the Life and Death of Terry Dolan, Mirror Images From the Age of AIDSFrom: The Washington Post | Date: 5/11/1987 | Author: Elizabeth Kastor] He co-authored "Reagan: A President Succeeds" with Gregory Fossedal. His brother, Anthony R. Dolan, was also a political activist and Ronald Reagan's chief speechwriter during his presidency.citation |title=DOLAN, ANTHONY "TONY" R.: Files, 1981-1989 – REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS |url=http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/findaid/dolan.htm |accessdate=2007-09-06.]

Dolan was a native of Connecticut. He became involved in politics during his teens as a Republican volunteer. At age 21, he worked as a paid organizer in Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential re-election campaign. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947346-3,00.html The New Right Takes Aim] , "Time magazine", August 20, 1979] The following year, he was a candidate for chairman of the College Republicans but lost to Karl Rove. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/rove072399.htm Karl Rove: The Strategist] , by Dan Balz, "Washington Post", July 23, 1999]

He was a member of the Council for National Policy Board of Governors, a member of the advisory board for CAUSA, and director of Conservatives Against Liberal Legislation (CALL). [http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/11/14/2006-terry-dolan-award/ 2006 Terry Dolan Award Seeks to Name Biggest Gay Republican Hypocrite] , by Jon Ponder, "Pensito Review", Nov. 14, 2006] [ [http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.d.htm#dolan John T. (Terry) Dolan] , The Council for National Policy: Selected Member Biographies ]

Although Dolan was a proponent of family values and an outspoken critic of gay rights, he was a closeted gay mancitation |title=Perfect Enemies |year=1996 |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/perfectenemies.htm |first=John |last=Gallagher |first2=Chris |last2=Bull |publisher=Crown Publishers |isbn=0517701987.] citation |first=Frank |last=Rich |title=Just How Gay is the Right? |date=2005-05-15 |accessdate=2007-09-06 |url=http://www.americablog.com/2005/05/frank-rich-just-how-gay-is-right.html |periodical=The New York Times.] citation |title=And the Band Played on |first=Randy |last=Shilts |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2000 |isbn=0312241356 |page=407.] who was regularly seen at gay bars in Washington, D.C., [Steve Endean (2006), [http://books.google.com/books?id=u9BV2JL2hd4C&pg=PA269&dq=%22terry+dolan%22+republican+gay&sig=qJ6a48ULIPCosJC61btl_OtiIJs Bringing Lesbian And Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress] , Haworth Press, ISBN 1560235268, page 269] and died from AIDS complications.citation |title=Forcing Gays Out of the Closet |date=1990-01-29 |accessdate=2007-09-06 |periodical=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969264-1,00.html |last=Henry, III |first=William A.]

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* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v39/ai_4629812 "Terry Dolan, RIP"] , "National Review", January 30, 1987