When Barack Obama's "Change is Coming" campaign made a national call to action, rallying communities to inform the new administration's transition team on the most pressing, in-need-of change issues facing Americans today, Aaron Bowen, Lawrence Perea and Anthony Martinez (pictured left to right) decided to oblige from a pinker point of view. With a mission of channeling LGBT priorities into the Obama camp, and within only a few weeks, the three founded lgbtchange.org, mustered a panel of 25 local government and social figures-—including Illinois state representatives, health center CEOs, school officials and legal experts—-and facilitated a forum to bring the most pressing, in-need-of-change gay issues to the president's floor. The grassroots discussion was held at the Center on Halsted, December 13, 2008, and over 80 people attended; the forum needed to be moved to a larger space than what was originally reserved.