Reasons for the LGBT community to worry?

Monday, April 26th, 2010

There 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 they [...]

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We must be our own fierce advocate, because to everyone else, we are just props

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Remember 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 [...]

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A year of civil disobedience for GLBT rights

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

People are up in arms over the big DOMA flap, and rightly so.  Yes, there are the apologists, but it really appears that we have numbers on our side; the side that says the President and his DOJ is wrong for citing incest and child marriage in trying to fight against gay marriage.
Many people are [...]

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What can we do to shut you up?

Monday, June 15th, 2009

That’s basically the question that I read into a post over at AmericaBlog.com.  Specifically, John Aravosis wrote:
Joe and I got an email the other day from a well-connected gay friend, and he said he was hearing rumors that the Obama administration, in an effort to woo back the gays, was thinking of possibly announcing the [...]

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The GLBT community starts to respond to Obama on DOMA

Monday, June 15th, 2009

First 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 [...]

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Obama is losing support from the GLBT community

Friday, June 12th, 2009

So 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 President [...]

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