- Rep. Jared Polis on Obama's LGBT Commitments and Clips of Obama Remarks http://bit.ly/13qRx2 [video #gay #p2] 15:45:49
- Movement Malpractice? Response to Criticism Over Attending White House Events http://bit.ly/3hgrqT [analysis #lgbt #gay #p2] 15:43:26
- Gay USA Weekly LGBT News Hour Podcast with Andy Humm and Ann Northrop http://bit.ly/pSfA [audio #gay #p2] 15:41:47
- Audio of Obama's Remarks at Today's LGBT Reception at the White House http://bit.ly/1azOax [audio #gay #p2] 15:39:51
- Fort Worth Residents Protest Raid on Gay Nightclub http://bit.ly/108c8b [harassment #lgbt #p2] 21:14:21
- 'Gayby Boom': Children of Gay Couples Speak Out http://bit.ly/m4f6i [family #lgbt #p2] 21:13:18
- The Gay Liberation Front Founding Members http://bit.ly/n4NO1 [video #lgbt #p2] 21:12:43
June, 2009
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Media Digest for 2009-06-29
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Jun 09
President Obama Hosts Reception in Support of LGBT Equality
The President and First Lady Michelle Obama host a reception for LGBT Pride Month in the East Room of the White House on June 29, 2009. (public domain)
TRANSCRIPT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release June 29, 2009
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT LGBT PRIDE MONTH RECEPTION
East Room 4:35 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Hello, hello, hello. (Applause.) Hey! Good to see you. (Applause.) I’m waiting for FLOTUS here. FLOTUS always politics more than POTUS.
MRS. OBAMA: No, you move too slow. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: It is great to see everybody here today and they’re just — I’ve got a lot of friends in the room, but there are some people I want to especially acknowledge. First of all, somebody who helped ensure that we are in the White House, Steve Hildebrand. Please give Steve a big round of applause. (Applause.) Where’s Steve? He’s around here somewhere. (Applause.) … Continue reading →
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Jun 09
Media Digest for 2009-06-28
- QueerVisions.com | Gay Rights Media = A New Way to Get LGBT Media Updates http://bit.ly/sdeAg [resource #lgbt #gay #p2] 04:38:50
- Stonewall Riots 40th Anniversary: A Look Back at the Uprising that Launched a Movement http://bit.ly/cluE1 [video #lgbt #gay #p2] 03:15:58
- 40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans http://bit.ly/eKjU7 [analysis #lgbt #gay #p2] 01:59:17
- Scenes from SLDN's Don't Ask Don't Tell Protest at the White House http://bit.ly/2dZJyP [video #gay #lgbt #p2] 20:36:08
- 61 Percent of British Public Support Gay Marriages http://bit.ly/yhI8A [poll #lgbt #p2] 19:40:25
- Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture http://bit.ly/o1obS [analysis #lgbt #p2] 19:22:37
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Jun 09
Media Digest for 2009-06-27
- White House on Suspension of DADT Option http://bit.ly/tCQkF [video #lgbt #gay #p2] 23:14:50
- 50 Undecided Democrats on ENDA – Call to Action http://bit.ly/JqE0U [legislation #lgbt #gay #p2] 22:54:09
- Class Project: Same-Sex Marriage Short Documentary http://bit.ly/hooOf [video #lgbt #gay #p2] 19:07:01
- DNC Fundraiser Protest in Washington D.C. http://bit.ly/i4iYi [video #lgbt #gay #p2] 16:45:07
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Jun 09
Everyday Evil Reborn
This commentary was originally posted on May 19th, 2005, but given a very disturbing video taken during LGBT Pride Month this year and given this video’s similarity to many scenes in the photos below, I’m reposting it with the new video at the beginning.
[CAPTION: My friend and I were leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis, MN (6/27/09) and came across a group of Somalian kids who asked my friend if he was gay. When he answered "yes", they proceeded to harass him and me with verbal threats and even throwing rocks at my friend at one point.]
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Ignorance and fear are at the heart of evils of all kinds. Two of them are racism and homophobia. Others include sexism and anti-semitism.
First, no one speaks for god and the bible is not the literal truth. Anyone who claims otherwise in the first case is a liar and in the second is a hypocrite.
Third, think of the images of black children walking into a newly desegregated school with men and women protesters all around pointing to passages in the bible. Think of the preachers and leaders just a couple decades ago who denounced interracial marriage as unnatural, immoral and against God’s plan. The phrase some of them used was ‘purity of race’. I would imagine the KKK still use these supremacist ideologies though majorities have finally, finally decided to abandon them. The Supreme Court ruled that banning interracial marriage was unconstitutional only in 1967!
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Fourth, majorities now are shamefully making the same mistakes of their ancestors when it comes to NOT evolving their treatment and understanding of a minority section of society. In this case it’s not a race but a sexuality which the majority is refusing to upgrade to full human status.
Look above in these posts and you will find phrases used by those who wish to keep homosexual people defined as subhuman. These phrases can be matched almost word for word to the phrases used by whites opposing full equality for blacks during the african-american civil rights movement. These phrases, just as in the case of racism, are based always on supremacist ideologies. We are superior; they are not. We have god on our side; they do not. We know what’s best for society and children; they do not.
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