The Gill Foundation, named by the Association of Fundraising Professionals as the Foundation of the Year in 2004, has numerous educational, cultural, political, and other projects. More than 67 million dollars' worth of grants were awarded in the Foundation's first decade. It is now the leading funder of glbtq organizations and causes.

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Among its multifarious bequests, the Gill Foundation has established scholarships for gay and lesbian students at several colleges, donated to AIDS hospices and other programs, and given grants to institutions such as the Human Rights Campaign and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

A grant from the Gill Foundation was integral to the development of the extremely successful Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Its executive director, Kevin Jennings, praised Gill's work, saying, "The gay community in its current form could not exist without Tim. He created the infrastructure of national organizations like mine, and also in out-of-the-way places where gay community centers never existed before."

In order to qualify for Gill Foundation grants, organizations must have or adopt nondiscrimination policies that include language regarding sexual orientation and must also publicly acknowledge the receipt of money from the Foundation's Gay and Lesbian Fund of Colorado.

While the bulk of the Foundation's grants go to glbtq causes, some are awarded to other entities such as libraries, children's charities, and arts organizations. Gill feels that it is important to make "straight folks aware that the organizations they know and love also get gay support."

The Gill Foundation's political programs include the Democracy Project ("a non-partisan effort to help organizations serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their allies raise more money, lobby more effectively, strengthen relationships with supporters, and build alliances with other organizations") and TurnOut ("a project . . . that seeks to educate friends and family of lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as to the basic inequalities faced by their loved ones on a daily basis and empower them to take action to voice their concern").

Gill and his partner, Scott Miller, reside in Aspen, Colorado but have also traveled extensively, often with outdoor sports on the agenda. Despite his unpromising start in high school, Gill has become quite an athlete and enjoys snowboarding, paragliding, canoeing, and mountain climbing.

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is a national organization in the United States dedicated to creating safe school environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students.

In a little more than thirty years, the number of glbtq student organizations has grown from a handful found at large universities to several thousand spread throughout the country to nearly all college campuses.

The largest glbtq political organization in the United States, the Human Rights Campaign has emerged as the leading national organization representing glbtq concerns.

America's only nationally broadcast gay and lesbian newsmagazine, In the Life began in 1992 as a variety show, but has since evolved into an acclaimed public-affairs program.

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), an American organization of some 460 affiliated chapters and 80,000 members, works to support glbtq people and their loved ones.

The Point Foundation offers financial support and mentoring to college students who have been marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Businessman and philanthropist Jared Polis became one of only three openly gay members in Congress, and the first openly gay man elected to Congress as a freshman, when he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008.

Romer v. Evans (1996) marks the first time in its history that the U. S. Supreme Court recognized lesbians and gay men as worthy and deserving of equal rights.

Activist Urvashi Vaid has devoted her energies to trying to create a queer liberation movement that would have as its core the liberation of all people.