1.   Almost every organization she approached for donations, even the Georgia Equality Project, a gay advocacy group, had already lined up behind Hegstrom.

2.   A variety of organizations were represented at the parade, including churches, AIDS organizations and gay advocacy groups.

3.   Gay advocacy groups, which negotiated the agreement with the state, hailed it as an important step toward full recognition of gay and lesbian parental rights.

4.   Gay advocacy groups lobbied strenuously for Ruth Messinger to endorse Ms. Glick, saying significant campaign contributions to the Messinger campaign were at stake.

5.   In the process, they are expanding what constitutes philanthropy by broadening the targets of their giving to include, for instance, gay advocacy.

6.   It canceled plans to advertise on the TV program, citing the controversy generated by increasingly angry protests against Paramount and Schlessinger by gay advocacy groups.

7.   Kevin Ivers, spokesman for Log Cabin Republicans, a gay advocacy group, agreed.

8.   Mead is a former board chairman of Community United Against Violence, the gay advocacy group in San Francisco.

9.   Nonetheless, Gunderson may have little choice in being anointed the point man by gay advocacy groups desperately seeking access to Republican spheres of power.

10.   Asking Fini about his stand on gay teachers was another guest on the show, Franco Grillini, who heads a gay advocacy group.