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By American Girl in Italy on Mar 2, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, GLBT, Gavin Newsom, Gay Rights | 104 Comments

As much as I loved the Oscars this year, and as much as I want to see Milk, I was pissed when I saw Sean Penn’s acceptance speech. Actors, as Americans, have the right to express their political points of view. And we have the right to separate their views from their roles, or not. [...]

It is hard for an empty suit to take a stand - or perhaps even to understand what it means to take a stand »

By Heidi Li on Dec 27, 2008 in Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Clinton, Current Affairs, Democratic Party, Feminism, GLBT, Gavin Newsom, Gay Rights, Hillary Clinton, Jewish Voters, Media, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Misogyny, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sexism, Washington Post | 264 Comments

[Cross-posted from Heidi Li's Potpourri]
Richard Cohen’s sister is canceling her inauguration party because of President-elect Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to bless Mr. Obama’s taking the office of the Presidency of the United State.
According to her brother’s column in the Washington Post, what made her do this is the way in which Mr. Obama’s [...]

ATTN LGBT VOTERS: Barack Obama Is a Triangulating Homophobe »

By Truthteller on Nov 3, 2008 in Barack Obama, California, Chicago, Civil Rights, GLBT, Gavin Newsom, Hate Speech, Obama's Thugs, Religion, Rev. James Meeks, South Carolina | 107 Comments

How else does one explain the following?
Obama told MTV he believes marriage is “between a man and a woman” and that he is “not in favor of gay marriage.”
At the same time, Obama reiterated his opposition to Proposition 8, the California ballot measure which would eliminate a right to same-sex marriage that the state’s [...]

Barack Obama’s Compulsively Repeated Gay Bashing Risks the Loss of A Key Voting Block »

By Truthteller on Sep 29, 2008 in Barack Obama, Christianity, Civil Rights, Donna Brazile, GLBT, Gavin Newsom, Hate Speech, Michelle Obama, Obama's Neuroses, Political Strategy, Religion, Rev. James Meeks, Sarah Palin | 194 Comments

Obama never had the support of the LGBT community. Indeed, 63% of LGBT Democrats supported Hillary Clinton during the California primary, while a paltry 29% cast their votes for Barack Obama. I imagine LGBT support for Clinton was equally strong in other states, for according to a poll conducted last November, this constituency [...]

A Majority of One: On Losing the Democratic Base »

By Bud White on May 22, 2008 in Bill Ayers, Clinton, DNC, Disenfranchisement, Electability, Florida, Gavin Newsom, Geraldine Ferraro, Hate Speech, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Media Bias, Michigan, Sexism, Superdelegates, Women | 142 Comments

A friend returns from the Colorado Democratic State Convention and announces that she will not support Obama if he’s the nominee. If Obama is losing women like this, I think, he is doomed in November.
This is how she describes the Convention:
I listen to the leaders of our party talk about us all “coming together” [...]

“As God Is My Witness”: Obama Snubs Newsom, Gays »

By SusanUnPC on Feb 29, 2008 in Barack Obama, GLBT, Gavin Newsom | 73 Comments

What a stand-up guy. He’s always got his hand out for the “green.” But he is NOT there to stand up for those to whom he has his hand out.
This newspaper ad has gone “viral” in the gay community, across the nation. Below, from the original San Francisco Chronicle article. First, [...]