Barney Frank: Gay Rights March "A Waste Of Time At Best"
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Bill Maher | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy
This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. But of course that's not going to happen.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
President Obama will address the Human Rights Campaign -- the largest gay rights fundraiser in the country -- this Saturday, and a number of HuffPost bloggers have weighed in.
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Show the world, Mr. President, how we are just like you, and perhaps more important, how you are just like us: In what ways are we pretty normal, and in what ways are you kinda Queer?
Joan Garry | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
From Barack Obama, I want a kitchen table story. A backyard story. I want to know that there is more than just a cerebral connection to the gay community. I want a personal and emotional link.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
I'm sure his speechwriters have cooked up something special for Saturday, but I've got a few ideas of my own. I've written a speech for the beloved President -- the kind of speech we wish the man would give, just once.
Evan Wolfson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
On Saturday, Obama has the opportunity -- and I believe the obligation -- to speak in moral as well as concrete terms about non-gay people's stake in ending the exclusion and discrimination gay people endure.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
What should Obama -- the first minority president -- say in what's being called his "big gay speech"?
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Here's the speech I would like to hear Obama make on Saturday when he addresses the national meeting of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest lesbian and gay civil rights organization in the nation.
Wayne Besen | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Let it be known that the GLBT community is no longer interested in being pals with the powerful or having the famous tell us we are fabulous -- unless it leads to action.
AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics