Good As You: Barack Obama Roundup
07/01/2009
Video: Just wait until he really does something for us. That's when the real anti-gay 'fun' begins
(3:23): "It's not rocket science": No. No, it's most certainly not science in any form.
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06/30/2009
When do we think the AP will start caring about this?
We've seen the American Family Association's One News Now site take liberties with the AP wire many times before. But this one, covering yesterday's White House Pride event, just might take the journalistically unethical cake! Here's the AFA's take: Obama...
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06/29/2009
It'll be kinda like a wedding reception where the host doesn't (publicly) support guests' right to have own
Due to both real and perceived rights slights, today's White House reception for LGBT Pride Month is intensely controversial. And at 4:25ET, you can come back here go to the White House site to watch it play out live: President...
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While we were away: First Lady's toned arms supported husband-hugging
Activist Michael Petrelis recently brought word of this exchange, which fellow LGBT advocate Bill Wilson reportedly shared with First Lady Michelle Obama: Bill Wilson: My husband and I have been together 23 years. We need to get rid of the...
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06/28/2009
While we were away: Cheekiness of Colbert's tongue doesn't prevent lashings
Some of the president's chagrin-inciting maneuverings, as presented through a Colbertian filter: Yup, there have certainly been some undeniable annoyances. We just hope we're over the largest hump, so that this stonewalling doesn't turn into full blown brick-shitting. The Word...
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While we were away: The president did this:
*RELATED COMMENTARY: President Obama’s decision to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees is a victory for fairness in the workplace. It is a serious omission, however, that his new policy does not include health and retirement benefits, which...
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While we were away: OPM Director wrote progressive checks; queer community hopes they won't bounce
John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management, speaking at D.C.'s Capital Pride: John Berry, Director, OPM - Capital Pride Festival Main Stage / WDC - 14 June 2009 by Elvert Barnes [YT]
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06/05/2009
Chemotherapy is something you 'tolerate.' We aren't chemo.
They say: "The United States federal government, now by executive order, signed by the President of the United States, is declaring national pride in these lifestyles," [Southern Baptist Convention President Albert Mohler] contends. "This is not mere toleration; it's not...
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06/04/2009
Video: Yeah, we're friends. I mean we're not like super close, but we get along.
On last night's interview with NBC anchor Brian Williams, our president assured gay folks that we have a friend civil companion in him: The real question: Does the constitution have a friend in the idea that tax-paying gay couples deserve...
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06/01/2009
Barack, paper, fissures: Does this document allay concerns?
It's official: Pride Month can again. In a welcome new document, the President says so: 2009LGBT Prc Rel (2) Great. We mean it: An excellent move from a friendly president. Now we need Barack Obama, constitutional scholar, to actually mean...
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05/27/2009
Obama heads to Hills; gays ask, 'If Heidi and Spencer can marry, why not us?'
If it was an all-out protest, we probably wouldn't support it. But it's not a protest -- it's a call for our president to step up and fulfill his promises to the LGBT community. So with a productive working mindset...
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05/21/2009
DOMA was an issue in primaries -- when will it be a primary issue?
On Monday we showed you how The Advocate's Kerry Eleveld confronted White House Press Secty. Robert Gibbs on the question of a DOMA repeal, leading Gibbs to engage in that all-too-familiar Democratic two-step of underprioritized gay rights support. Now the...
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05/18/2009
Video: The Democratic DOMA dance is increasingly out-of-step
The Advocate's Kerry Eleveld asks a perfectly understandable question. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gives an increasingly annoying non-answer: Yea, Kerry: How dare you ask about a little thing like the federal rights of five state's gays (with six on the...
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05/16/2009
A frustrating week to be an openly gay, American soldier
This week, yours truly has been remiss in overlooking some of the major details that have circled around Don't Ask Don't Tell and, more specifically, the administration's seeming failure to find some concern. Lest you think it's because I'm an...
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05/14/2009
Barack's door: They knock Knox, we knock noxious attacks
They say: President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20500-0003 Dear Mr. President, On April 6, you named Harry Knox to your Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. You claim to have created this Council,...
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05/11/2009
Video: That annual event where everyone goes 'haha, the world has problems and we're involved. Teehee, lolz'
A lesbian Supreme Court nominee? Well, who knows? But when it comes to a sapphic sister serving as correspondents' jester, Wanda's already been confirmed: **More: President Shecky Obama:
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05/07/2009
On Obama, gay rights, and Countess Luann
Among gay activists, there's been a constant debate going on over the past few months. The topic, of course: Which Real Housewife would be the most fun to take to the club, and which would be better to spend a...
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04/28/2009
A powerful friend can make all the difference
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2009 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON H.R. 1913, THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT OF 2009 This week, the House of Representatives is expected...
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04/22/2009
Malkin: Obama era sucks because Perez made an asinine comment
It always astounds us when the social conservatives bemoan what they perceive to be unfair debate tactics, but then turn around and trump their own claims by engaging in discourse that's far more unsporting than the form that they're criticizing....
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04/16/2009
Video: We had Chamomille. Others chose a big ol' cup of misdirected rage
This sign, from an Iowa "tea party" pretty much sums up the mentality of yesterday's national protests: The YouTubes will now give you more insight: In this one watch around the :29 mark to see how the dissenting voices (aka...
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04/13/2009
Rollin' the joint: LGBT families join White House's eggy bash
Right now in our nation's capital, scores of LGBT families are gathered around the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll. And while some of the eggs might be hiding in or around a Bush, the beauty part is...
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04/10/2009
The rising tide of anti-pink facetious-ism
Michael Savage has us all figured out: There is a rising tide of pink fascism in this country, and it comes as a result of the election of Barack Hussein Obama. Obama has signaled that during his reign it will...
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Video: Happy Easter (and only Easter)
They're finally just coming out and saying it. Our organized opposition truly wants this to be a Christian-only nation: In Focus on the Family view, it takes all kinds to keep this nation alive. Just as long as those kinds...
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04/03/2009
It's a nice day for a White (House) wedding (acclamation)
As more and more courts, lawmakers, and everyday folk wise up to LGBT equality and the inadequacy of civil unions, statements like this one go from "annoying but politically understandable" to merely the former: "The President respects the decision of...
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04/02/2009
He wants Colts to only be with Mares -- yet Team Obama still recruits him?
A few years back, former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy decided to become a vocal opponent of marriage equality, pushing his home state to adopt a marriage amendment. And of course he did so from a purely religious perspective, even...
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03/26/2009
Video: Aggressively glib Shepard breeds anti-intellectual sheep
Last summer, while on the campaign trail, then-candidate Obama said this about his detractors: This overly smug new video from the rabidly anti-gay, anti-progressive Focus on the Family staffer Stuart Shepard ably highlights this concept: Bemoaning the substantive press conference...
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03/18/2009
40th wishes: Wall of Stone seeks Pen of 'rack
Out author Patricia Nell Warren has penned a proclamation in recognition of Stonewall's fortieth anniversary (this 6/28), and she and others are working to get President Barack Obama's John Hancock on the commemorative doc. This from activist Michael Petrelis: My...
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AP: Obama to right another Bush wrong
Bush refused to back it. But Obama is most certainly not Bush: WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then-President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated...
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02/19/2009
From neh to yea to NEH: Gay folks earn White House spots
Another gay man gets an Obama White House role. This from Washington Blade: Jeremy Bernard was appointed as White House liaison to the National Endowment for the Humanities this week, the source said. Bernard’s new role means he’ll serve as...
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02/09/2009
Presidential precedent
1993: Conservatives, with an interest more on their party that on their country, make Bill Clinton's every last fart a "controversy," standing in the way of much-needed work. 2009: Conservatives, with an interest more on their party that on their...
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02/06/2009
Hope and faith: Obama's religo-outreach gets gay
This from the Victory Fund's Gay Politics site: Fred Davie, the openly gay president of Public/Private Ventures, has been named to serve on President Barack Obama’s Policy Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Davie will work to provide objective, nonpartisan...
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02/03/2009
Video: But the real question: Will Westboro picket the planet's funeral?
The world's about to end. America's excitement about having an intelligent man in office is the main indicator of our impending doom. Oh, and said intelligent man is the anti-Christ, working in unison with Satan and the Pope to dupe...
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Video: Look, we find a handful out of millions to go on camera. We must be right.
Some people saw the inauguration as an opportunity to move away from the divisive, anti-intellectual, unfair, hurtful, un-American, discriminatory, baseless, polarizing, anti-civil rhetoric that has so fully divided us in the past. Others saw it as an opportunity to keep...
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01/27/2009
Video: Why not just say 'we don't care for gays' and then end the segment?
FACT (:12): Including LGBT people within the realm of normalcy is unifying, Mike. Not to you, maybe. But to those of us who have been long-stymied under the cruel thumb of persecution, the idea that LGBT people will be respected...
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01/22/2009
Questioners question Obama; we question questioners' humanity
The editors of far-right, anti-gay site WorldNetDaily have asked their readers to submit questions to President Obama. Here now, but a small sampling of what we can expect from this set over the next four/eight years: Most annoyed by these...
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01/21/2009
Barack's first accomplishment: He pissed off Matt Barber
In response to the The Obama administration publishing a list of LGBT goals on the official White House website, thesaurus owner Matt Barber unleashed his latest move in the ongoing "smear the queer" match that is his professional life: “Well,...
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01/20/2009
If we move to Anaheim, we'll prob. have to look elsewhere for shrubs
Anaheim, California's Marina Landscape Inc. gave $15,000 in support of Proposition 8. But not happy with simply taking away our marriages, their company's staff is now sending us odd bits of rage in which they seem to connect Rick Warren...
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We couldn't agree more, Sasha
(Photo: ⓒ AP) Sorry, Beyoncé, but today she is Sasha Fierce! Sasha Gives The Thumbs Up [AP via Yahoo!]
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When mantras become policies
WhiteHouse.gov has been updated. Enjoy: Can we? Yes. CIVIL RIGHTS [WhiteHouse.gov]
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Video: The bitter with the sweet
It was inappropriate. It was a mistake. His words cannot help but ring hollow to millions of people. But for closure, here it is: (NBC's feed) We're glad that we stood our ground on this. We're glad that it's over....
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Watch MSNBC's live inaugural coverage
**NOTE, 1/21: This is where we ran live coverage of the inaugural events. Obviously it is now over. For MSNBC's roundup of the day, check out this link: The Inaugural [MSNBC] **Also: Here's the transcript of PRESIDENT Obama's speech, in...
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Video: Clarinets we can can believe in
While we are stuck here in cold NYC listening to Peggy Noonan explain the fine nuances of presidential speech writing to Matt and Meredith, fellow Gothamites Andy Towle and Corey Johnson are in chilly-but-energized D.C., chatting with some of the...
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01/19/2009
AFA poll: White House will warm Obama's cold feet
We in the LGBT community might be skeptical about Barack Obama coming out in full support of our marriage equality. However, the "pro-family" readers of the AFA's One News Now seem ever-more resigned to the possibility that our incoming chief...
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01/16/2009
Episcopal Bishop, stripper -- tomato, tomahto
Lashing out at the Obama inaugural team for their decision to invite openly gay Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the Gay Men's Chorus of D.C., and the Lesbian and Gay Band Association to participate in various ceremonial activities, Rev. Dr. Gary...
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01/15/2009
Yes we can. Or at least look like we did.
Go Obama-con yourself now: Obamicon.me [Paste Magazine] (H/t: J.M.G)
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01/13/2009
He was fine with it in '96 -- so why now the 86?
Did the mid-90's form of Barack Obama's "yes we can" mantra include full marriage equality? Yes, says the staff of Windy City Times, who have unearthed a 1996 questionnaire from when the president elect was running for IL state senate:...
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01/08/2009
Team Obama invests in gay Bond
This from The Advocate's uber-intrepid Kerry Eleveld: A transition team aide has told The Advocate that President-elect Barack Obama will name Brian Bond the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. Bond, a political veteran who has...
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12/28/2008
MEET THE dePRESSing failure to see the gravity of this matter
Axelrod defends the Warren fiasco: The "important point" is that you have "a conservative evangelical pastor who's coming to participate in the inauguration of a progressive president"? In one emphatic word: NO!! The important point is the progressive president chose...
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12/24/2008
Video: The Lowdown on Lowery
The Rick Warren fiasco has, rightfully, gained the headlines and the outrage. But what about the other pastor who will appear at the inauguration, Joseph Lowery? The one we've all heard is gay-friendly? Well, Lowery sat down with MSNBC. And...
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12/19/2008
Cartoon: Abusive relationships
This from "Troy" cartoonist Michael Derry: Yea. F***ing ouch. **SOURCE: 365Gay **OUR COMPLETE RICK WARREN ARCHIVE: Rick Warren [G-A-Y]
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