Saturday  from 7 p.m. to about 11 p.m. EST, we will be live tweeting from the Obama speech at the HRC Equality Dinner and from the 365gay meetup near the Capitol.

Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. check in to our home page for a live group tweet – with photos and video – on the March and Rally.

Who will be tweeting?

Your favorite 365ers, including Ali Davis, James Withers and Jennifer Vanasco; Logo’s John Polly, Jon Mallow and Ray Hunt; and – wait for it – Gavin Creel, from the cast of Hair, and New York City Council Speaker and out lesbian Christine Quinn.

You will be able to comment in real time in the Twitter stream (we’ll be using CoverItLive – you won’t need a Twitter account, just a computer), answer poll questions and feel like you are there.

“There are tons of great gay people who you could appoint: Christine Quinn for HUD Secretary, Urvashi Vaid for Attorney General, Tony Kushner to Chair the NEA, Suze Orman for Secretary of the Treasury (she knows her money and we are in a financial crisis!), Doogie Howser for Surgeon General (he did graduate from Med School at 16!)”.  

 But I am much less interested in seeing an LGBT person in government than I am in seeing a real progressive who is committed to individual sexual freedom and equality for all.

 In this case, identity alone is not enough -  the simple fact that someone is gay does not make that person a friend of the gay community.  In fact, in the wake of the Larry Craig scandal it became pretty clear that there are already a lot of gay people in government, and they aren’t exactly pushing for my political agenda. 

 The last thing I want is a gay Clarence Thomas!

Jon Mallow is co-host of The Gay Agenda video blog

Go back to the main story for more opinions on where we need LGBT officials.