We all know that Election Day, including the reelection of President Obama, was historic for LGBT Americans. Now we need to translate those results into tangible, concrete change.
Last week a Washington Post headline proclaimed, "Gay donors now pressing for top spots for LGBTs in Obama administration." Then,...
(103) Comments | Posted November 8, 2012 | 1:08 PM
What a difference eight years -- and an evolution -- make.
Waking up the day after the 2012 election was far different from that experience in 2004 -- and 2008.
On the day after the election in 2004, LGBT Americans awoke to an uncertain -- and scary -- world. The...
(20) Comments | Posted May 10, 2012 | 9:32 PM
I woke up very cranky on Wednesday, May 8. For the past few months, I'd been helping my friend, Pam Spaulding, and others in North Carolina work against the viciously anti-gay Amendment 1. And we lost. Badly. It was another ugly example of that modern American tradition of voters taking...
(147) Comments | Posted March 8, 2012 | 12:04 PM
On Oct. 27, 2010 President Obama was asked about his position on same-sex marriage. Reiterating his support for civil unions, he said that he "did not intend to make big news," admitting that he was "unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage." But the president did make news....
(73) Comments | Posted November 14, 2012 | 7:26 PM