President Obama will address the Human Rights Campaign -- the largest gay rights fundraiser in the country -- this Saturday with a keynote appearance that has been dubbed his "Big Gay Speech" by the LGBT blogging community. A number of HuffPost bloggers have weighed in with their hopes, doubts and expectations. Scroll down for the roundup.
Jose Antonio Vargas: Gay Rights Speech: What Should Obama Say Tonight?
John Aravosis: What Would a Nobel Laureate Tell the Gays?
Bill Maher: New Rule: Everyone Deserves Equal Rights
Joe Sestak: The Civil Rights Test of Our Generation
Nathaniel Frank: President Obama Should Show He's Queer Like Us
Joan Garry: If I Were Obama's Big Gay Speechwriter
Aaron Belkin: Memo to Pentagon: Can We Talk About "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" or Not?
Emma Ruby-Sachs: The Big Gay Speech We Wish Obama Would Give
Evan Wolfson: President Obama's Maine Chance to Make the Case
Geoffrey R. Stone: Profiles in Courage: JFK and Barack Obama
Steve Clemons: Which Communities Are Still in High Sizzle Support Mode for Barack Obama?
Geoffrey R. Stone: Kennedy/Obama: Does the Dream Live On?
Joe Solmonese: Getting the Times to Catch Up with Ted Kennedy
Aubrey Sarvis: It's Chow Time at the White House, Brother
Wayne Besen: Obama's Big Gay Speech