Comments on: White House to host LGBT reception for pride month

By: John S

John S — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:04:20 +0000

Look all you nay Sayers.

The best thing we could is attend this event in the largest numbers possible.

Show them our strength and make our voices heard. Do not sit on the side lines and pout.

Politics are sheer timing. If you don’t want to donate to the party fine they get the message but the next administration may be the biggest right wing thing ever .

Everybody attend that possibly can and bring 10 people with you.

The 50Th Anniversary will be long after Obama is out of office, and in the right wing takes it back they will never have an event like this

This will be the first time in history for an event like this. This is about Stonewall not pouting.

Attend in big numbers give the right wingers something to scream about, not the fact that no one showed. Attend, you will have plenty of time to vent your complaints later.

Can you imagine Gays and Lesbians hugging and kissing on the White house lawn.
LETS DIVE THEM SOME-THIN TO TALK ABOUT.
Don’t not attend to stick your toung out as the President. Use this to get more visibility.

Another chance to make headlines in a positive way. Don’t let this chance go by.

By: Trace

Trace — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:44:48 +0000

Jack, we’re not fighting among ourselves. Finally, it seems that a community is coming together as a whole and realize that the DNC and the Obamanation are not the Golden Goose that they believe them to be.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:28:39 +0000

To read some of your comments. You would think it was a bunch of spoiled kids. It takes time. We have already made many advances in the last few years. It can only get better. We just need to educate and get more allies. But the last thing we want to do is fight among ourselves. That will get us nothing!!!!

By: Nanuq

Nanuq — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:48:42 +0000

I’m tired of symbolic gestures (Stonewall recognition event) and empty promises (”we’ll work harder,” and “it’ll get done in this administration”) framed in reassuring words.

Give us something REAL, Mr. Obama. Give us something REAL before I or my spouse of 30 years die.

Let us be REAL in the eyes of the federal government: we’re not asking for that much.

Let us file joint income taxes and stop paying extra taxes on employer-provided insurance for our legal spouses. Let us cover our spouses under our federal insurance plans. Let us, when we need to, collect survivor’s benefits.

Let us legally and openly as a family BUY A FAMILY PASS to a Federal Freakin’ Park.

Stop patting us on the heads with dumb-show demonstrations like this Stonewall event. It just doesn’t cut it, Mr. Obama, and you know it.

By: Daniel in Missouri

Daniel in Missouri — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:02:42 +0000

This is why I stopped donating to HRC. Waste of time, energy, and resources. The HRC: Fighting for Photo Ops.

By: charley

charley — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:20:48 +0000

I want to see a list of all attendees. I will discontinue any contribution to any BLBT organization that sends a representative.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:11:42 +0000

Barney “Ooops There’s
Bordello in my Basement” Frank is toast.
His judgment in regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is as bad as his judgment in shacking up with Stephen Gobie.

By: Alex H

Alex H — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:30:55 +0000

Oh???

Where’s my invitation? Or does this only include Joe Solomeese from HRC?

By: malalan

malalan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:10:47 +0000

I am loosing hope fast. I know Obama has as lot of S@#%T going on but if he can’t treat his own people right, how is he going to be the leader??? Let alone trying to positively influence the world? People in the country that he is running deserves more than that.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:29:34 +0000

I listened to a dscussion on NPR in the Bay Area today. A 71 year old straight woman called in. She was mad. She said “It only took Truman one Executive Order and the military was desegregated. He did not consult his Chiefs. He knew he was in charge, and it was the right thing to do.” It wasn’t easy after that, but Truman signed that Order. Where is our Chief Executive? We have been talking for over 20 years. That’s an entire generation. Enough already. Out of the closets and into the military, where we are already serving! My partner is Navy vet, and she is chronically ill and will be terminally ill. I cannot sign her into the VA cemetery. Our kids will have to. They will not give me the flag. We aren’t even under the bus. We can’t get into the damn cemetery!!!