Before Barack Obama had a chance to take HRC's podium, the organization's president Joe Solmonese hit MSNBC to defend our commander-in-chief. This would be mostly forgettable — Solmonese's love fest with the president is hardwired and expected — if it weren't for National Equality March organizer Cleve Jones to counter Gay Inc. with … oh, what do you call those things? … facts.
"I respectfully disagree with Joe," says Jones about Obama's supposed commitment to the Gs. And he's right.
It's becoming comical to watch HRC come to the defense of the White House. The organization's collusion with the DNC and Obama has yielded almost zero progress. (HRC will, at least internally, claim credit for ENDA's upcoming passage. Many smaller gay rights organizations would beg to differ.)
Jones argues it's time to get lawmakers on the record whether they support gay rights, even if that means bringing a bill to a vote that gets shot down. Solmonese wants some more holding time if Obama and his party peers can get things done. That's a nice sentiment, but that strategy hasn't worked yet. Should we expect anything different from Obama?
Adam Lambert: Out Magazine Can Eat Shit + Die (218)
· SouLKid says: It just got me thinking the music video is gonna be some kinda softcore porn. »
· SouLKid says: OMG! i love me some Lambert but that AMAs performance was awful. That was just gross. »
EXCUSES: The Senate Just Knocked DADT’s Hearings Into Next Year (22)
· Rainfish says: @ #19 WillBFair uh…well, let’s see…it was the DEMOCRAPS who had... »
· Brian says: willBfair said: “we should pressure our lobbying groups to go after repealing... »
Remembering the Life of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado (21)
· Aaron says: It’s a lot easier to live in a fantasy world where Adam Lambert is somehow... »
· alan brickman says: They’re not posting on here because they’re probably jealously... »
Chai Feldblum Only Accidentally Supports Polygamy (3)
· Travis King says: Sexual orientation is not a choice, that’s right. Biologically, monogamy... »
Is It Wrong to Report on a Marine Starring in Hardcore Gay Porn? (82)
· Peter says: I’m cracking up that David actually said that Queerty is not activist... »
Chaz Bono Says YES to Being the Face of Transgender America (32)
· alan brickman says: some of you need jobs or lives… maybe not in that order though…. »
PHOTOS: There’s No Getting Sik of Jeff (23)
· alan brickman says: His face isn’t perfect??? as compared to your “jealous... »
Lots of white men clapping. One black man speaking. Same speech.
HRC: The new LCR (Log Cabin Republicans)
Chris Matthews is hard to watch. He allows for about 3 words per each of his questions.
All around the mulberry bush, the monkey and the weasel…pop goes the weasel
Joe Solmonese. Poor little Cinderella. Cinderella! Turn out the votes for Obama! NO! you can't use your sister's hairbrush. Now can't you see mother is busy? Cinderella! Turn out your friends in the 2010 miderm elctions! NO you can't go to the ball, you have to clean the chimney! Cinderella! Make sure you make your friends vote in the 2012 election for me! NO! Can't you see mother is still busy?
Chris Matthews is hard to watch. He allows for about 3 words per each of his questions.
Tell me all about it. I wanted to pick up a shoe and sling it at my computer screen as I watched him.
He's so full of questions (among other things), that he appears not to even be interested in hearing the answers.
I get that he is one of those people who loves the sound of his own voice and the sense of importance that it gives him. :D
Lots of white men clapping. One black man speaking. Same speech.
I caught that too, Dallas.
"Lots of white men clapping. One black man speaking. Same speech."
It's not the people's fault in that room if there are too many African American gays who choose to live on the "down-low" and thus won't be 'out' in public forums. And besides, the 'one black man' there as you put it was in possession of the highest leadership position with the nation, something that no one else in that room could lay claim to.
Aside from sounding like a racist, Ian, what is your point???
Joe Solmonese = sleazy, sleazy, sleazy.
RE: Schlukitz
How is it 'racist' to point out that President Obama was the most powerful person in that room bar none? Oh, you meant the comment about groups who live on the "down low" to which of course AA's are only one, but by no means am I stereotyping to indicate all. However, I have lived in Detroit for over 5 yrs and believe me, there are MANY African American gays in and around that city who choose to live in the closet, even are heterosexual in their PUBLIC romantic relationships, but often have secret man-on-man sex on a frequent basis. That's simply a FACT, and a correlation of fact that I used in terms of the HRC dinner which was in Washington DC, another city with a very high African American populace, which is ALSO known to have a fair number of black "down low" men hiding in the greater AA community.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to romanticize any subset of a group to make others feel more comfortable, I base my statements on the statistical reality of population subsets and social norms within those subsets, and how this may have impacted the appearance, or lack thereof, of AA gay men of color at the HRC dinner.
It's now demonstrated that Roy Kohn was right about the liberal G/L communities clout…or lack there-of.