Reasons for the LGBT community to worry?
Monday, April 26th, 2010There is a lead over at AMERICAblog Gay with the headline: Did the White House really just threaten to cut off the entire gay community? Now here’s the thing. The story talks about how Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina are PISSED at the LGBT community for actions [...]
Support our soldiers! Ask Obama to pardon Choi and Pietrangelo at PardonOurSoldiers.com
Friday, March 19th, 2010Our soldiers would give their lives for us, and it doesn’t matter if they are gay or straight. Yesterday, two brave men, Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo protested the US Military’s practice of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the discriminatory practice of throwing gay and lesbian soldiers out of the armed forces. For that, [...]
We must be our own fierce advocate, because to everyone else, we are just props
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Remember during the 2008 election, when Senator Barack Obama said that he would be a “fierce advocate” for the GLBT community? Fast forward a few months, when President Obama’s administration defended DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, and equated gay marriage to pedophilia and incest. Remember the 1992 election, when Governor Clinton became one of [...]
The GLBT community starts to respond to Obama on DOMA
Monday, June 15th, 2009First of all, I know that I don’t speak for the entire GLBT community. And neither do the guys over at Towleroad.com or AmericaBlog.com. But there is a movement afoot, and I hope that it continues to grow. The Obama DOJ, and Obama himself, need to be held responsible for the hateful DOMA defense brief [...]
Obama is losing support from the GLBT community
Friday, June 12th, 2009So first we had the presidential contest of 2008. Obama and Clinton were jockeying for support from the GLBT community. Lots of great things were said, like ending DADT, repealing DOMA. Where are we, less than six months into the Obama administration? We, the GLBT community, are under the bus, having been thrown there by [...]
