Next week, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is holding a fundraising dinner ($1000+ a head) for LGBT ‘Leaders’ in a swanky hotel in Washington DC. The Vice-President will be in attendance, and the event is being hosted by former DNC Chair Howard Dean and three openly lesbian or gay representatives.
Obviously the event has been planned [...]
The New York Times has joined what’s feeling like a steadily growing groundswell of opposition to the DoJ’s defence of DOMA with an Editorial today.
Arguing, as others have, that even if the DoJ felt compelled to fight the case it could have done so without also putting the boot in to gay rights generally, The [...]
You have to read the ‘anger’ in the context. The letter I’m about to link to is really quite mild, but who it’s from and to give it huge significance.
Joe Solomonese is the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the most politically influential LGBT campaigning organisation in the US. They do good work, but are [...]
Richard Socarides, an openly gay former Clinton aide, writes in Americablog today on the DoJ’s defence of DOMA.
And Pam’s House Blend, in linking and commenting on Socarides’ piece notes:
Who’s holding this administration hostage to PTSD fears of Clinton and DADT in 1993? It’s 2009, toadies. This administration, sitting atop high approval ratings with a minority party [...]
A while back I mentioned that in light of the passage of Proposition 8 here in California, and similar political debates around the US, I’d probably be keeping a political angle here for a while, then I went quiet and it didn’t really happen.
That changes today.
Today is the day the the Obama Adminstration, the Administration [...]
