International Front Runners[1] (Frontrunners) is an umbrella organization of LGBTQ running and walking clubs around the world.

It started as an "introduction to jogging" group listed in the bimonthly publication of "Lavender U", which was organized to serve the gay and lesbian community.

Jack and Gardner were members of San Francisco's DSE Running Club and modeled the Lavender U Joggers after it.

After the first Gay Games, held in San Francisco in 1982, many Front Runners clubs were organized throughout the United States and around the world.

Patricia Nell Warren, known as "Patches" to her Los Angeles Front Runners family, frequented the Los Angeles runs and annual dinners held by the LA group and participated in the annual Christopher Street West parade as part of the LA Front Runners contingent during the 1990s, thanks to then-president Marty Freedman and then-executive board member Kevin and Don Norte.