We failed on so many counts. The HRC is failing us.

Your words: "Hate crimes and ENDA have been the main front for HRC for decades and yet they managed to do exactly nothing until this year."

My words: It is because of the National Equality March and our organizing EqualityAcrossAmerica. What, you need more evidence? The Hate Crimes Law is the beginning of our full equality. Maybe you don't appreciate the additional protections, but I know it's safer to go out now.

We know "angry demands" are the only thing that works. We'll keep the heat on until we have full Federal Rights for all of us – even you Cam.

Join the movement. Organize in your City. We provide the tools and we have a very successful record. Let's stop bitching and start marching.

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Not to name call Mark, but you sound like a really bitter bitch. I was at the march and I'm helping out for the vote in Maine. Hate crimes was already on the agenda this year, and if we are looking at it rationally, Hate crimes do not give gays any additional rights. They just mean that somebody who attacks me may get a few more years in jail than they would have before. The vote in Main is about getting gays a right that brings us one step closer to full equality. Efforts at centering all of our efforts in Washington the last 20 years and lobbying has brought us exactly nothing. Hate crimes and ENDA have been the main front for HRC for decades and yet they managed to do exactly nothing until this year. The local issues and states on the other had have seen worlplace protections for gays in almost all states as well as the right to marry in several. For you to dismiss this says more about you being a partisan than about your committment to actually helping the cause.

That's just stupid. Your equality-across-america is already out of business. These guys that went to Maine are doing real work. Marching and yelling are a complete waste of time.

Wake up – join EqualityAcrossAmerica and make a real difference. You don't have to go begging – we will teach you to be lobbyists and spend time in real political circles. That's where the action is. Join us. Become part of the solution and not part of the problem. We have the winning formula.

In Dallas, we have a bunch of so-called "activists" that organize protests and happy hours. They yell and demand, instead of talk and reason. They embarrass all of us. Avoid Queer Liberaction, please.

It's great to see real people do real work towards our equality.

@PopSnap:

I would gently suggest that making "equality" the issue and not "marriage" would be more helpful. I wouldn't leave "religion out," as you suggested. People are very aware there is "nutcase" religion and regular religion.

Bitterness has a strange beauty, too.

Actually, It's looking much better than Prop 8 is. Proposition 8 was bungled because we only employed celebrities and Gay Inc., and they were cocky the entire time, rolling their eyes at the religious retards.

Now, we're making it clearer that you should vote NO if you support gay marriage which solves the clarity issue; it includes wording about leaving religious institutions out, as well. We have door-to-door volunteers, real people, and NoM has embaressed themselves with a lawsuit threatened and being forced to reveal donor names.

I'm fairly certain we're going to win.

Wat you said is touching. Very. I m really sorry that life is soo messed up for gays..really.

I hope Maine vaotes in your favour too but the thing is i fear if you win here this way it will cause the anti-gay marriage crew to get nastier if possible. And once repubs come back and its up for vote again it can also swing away from your favour.
That sucks

We mock religion but we forget just how powerful it is. How something so fulfilling can be used so dangerously shows how messed up we humans are.

As a catholic you get my prayers that one day posts like yours never come up

Yes, you are old and wrong.

If Travis and his crew changed a few minds during their effort in Maine that proves it is possible. Many in our community expect HRC and Gay In.c to do OUR work for us. You want the Courts to do it. Well, here's some news: Courts cannot "order" equality – they can only pass laws that punish people for non-compliance. To achieve our equality we must enroll our fellow citizens.

While you sit on your fat ass waiting for the Supremes to decide your fate, hundreds of young gay teens will take their lives because they have been taught they are defective. It would be much more effective if you talked to your friends and neighbors.

If we all accepted our responsibility to engage our fellow citizens in this important conversation we would create our equality. Waiting for the Supremes or HRC is lazy.

Amazing. Finally an LGBT Group actually uses "math." Don't we all wish that Gay Inc. would follow suit – maybe be held accountable?

Kudos to Travis and the rest for having the courage to "talk" about our equality. Most people expect HRC to create a miracle instead, but it's been 30 years and more than $300 million with little to show for it. HRC will NEVER create equality – we must do that . . by talking.

Perhaps that comes from 40 years of watching heterosexuals abuse their gay creations and demand that government do so as well, but really, we all know that this will fail.

The only way LGTB Americans will achieve equality in this country is when the Supreme COurt finally DEMANDS it. Sorry, but that is the only way.

Do you think that the citizens of this country would not still have slaves if not for court protections? Sure we would. Do you think that we would allow inter-racial marriage if the court did not DEMAND it? Of course not. We would still be stuck in the 1960's had the courts not done what they are there to do.

Only when this kind of court order is demanded for LGTB Civil RIghts will we be able to take them for granted the way every other citizen does.

So while I certainly HOPE that No on 1 'wins' this vote, I just can not see it happening.

I hope I am old AND wrong.

Thank-you for traveling to Maine and doing the real work of LGBT Equality. All of those people who continue to believe "making angry demands" is helpful should spend a few days with this bunch of real activists. Anger doesn't accomplish anything – sincerity does.