We’re a little over a month away from the dates when the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments related to marriage equality. On March 26 the court will hear Hollingsworth v. Perry, challenging California’s Proposition 8; on March 26, Windsor v. United States, challenging DOMA, will be heard. As other polls have done, the [...]
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Queer Talk: Anonymous LGBT Group Funds Anti-Hagel Ad (VIDEO)
An anonymous group calling itself “Use Your Mandate” is running ads urging the rejection of Obama’s nominee for Sec. of Defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel. At Huffington Post: Dubbed ‘Use Your Mandate,’ the group … raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a source close to the group who declined to be named in [...]
Queer Talk: ‘We Can’t Wait,’ Mr. Obama
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. (NOTE: Beginning next week, Queer Talk moves to noon on Fridays.) Last week ago I wrote Obama Delays Implementation of Promised Work Place Protection. For months, the administration had, as ThinkProgress reported it, “dodg(ed) questions about the progress of an executive order prohibiting discrimination on [...]
Queer Talk: Mr. Obama, are you listening?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. What if you evolved so slowly that when you finally “arrived” you found out you were behind again? Mr. Obama, the “fierce advocate” for LGBT rights who yet continues to maintain his “evolving” position on marriage equality is being pressured to catch up, or be [...]
Queer Talk: HRC Honors Goldman Sachs, Queer Occupiers cry “Help”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. UPDATED AT END It’s the time of the year when the annual Human Rights Campaign “galas” kick-off, taking place in cities across the nation from now until November. Fully acknowledging snark mode, we see HRC doing its Mitt Romney impression and providing more evidence for [...]
Queer Talk: Candidate Obama talks to some of his LGBT “base”
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. President Obama was, for the second time, the keynote speaker at the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Annual Dinner in DC. At the October 1 festivities, some 3000 attendees heard the speech, and many more have watched a video, or read the transcript. What they heard, not [...]
Queer Talk: Unrest and 2012
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. Kerry Eleveld’s recent article, What Gay Rights Activists Can Teach the Left About Winning, is an important take on activism, LGBT and otherwise, in this 2012 election cycle. She begins: Remember when you believed that if we just elected enough Democrats to Congress and took the [...]
Queer Talk: Will HRC change with Solmonese’ departure?
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. “The timing of Solmonese’s resignation, as related to 2012, is at least curious – why would HRC make such a change as the presidential campaign moves into high gear?” The Human Rights Campaign is probably the most widely recognized LGBT organization in the nation, not surprising [...]
Queer Talk: Why is this man smiling? **UPDATED**
Joyce Arnold is a liberal Independent activist whose weekly column “Queer Talk” appears on Saturday. Why the big smile from Obama, this past Thursday night, while at the “Gala with the Gay Community” in Manhattan? This was the day before the New York state Senate followed the Assembly’s earlier vote in passing the bill that [...]
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