Terrence Patrick Bean is an American political fundraiser, a civil rights activist, and LGBT rights movement activist. He is known for co-founding several national LGBT rights organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.
Terry Bean has been a lifelong Democrat and has considerable influence in the party as a member of the Democratic National Committee[3] since at least 2009.[21] Among his contributions are his fundraising for Bill Clinton,[19] serving on the DNC's Convention Committee in 2000,[3] serving as a co-chair of Howard Dean's 2004 National Finance Committee,[6] and being the first LGBT member of Barack Obama's National Finance Committee.[22] He was the main fundraiser for Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts' 1990 campaign.[14]
In 2008, Bean launched the LGBT for Obama campaign website, which served as a fundraising tool and a means of outreach to the LGBT community.[22] In 2012, Bean raised more than $500,000 for Obama's re-election campaign, and visited the White House at least six times between 2012 and 2014.[21]
On November 19, 2014, Terry Bean was arrested on charges of sodomy and sex abuse in a case involving a 15-year-old boy, in what Bean's lawyer Kristen Winemiller characterized as an extortion attempt by an ex-lover.[
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