I come for the “half naked men” and I stay for the “Obama rants”.

I think many in the LGBT Community are waking up the the smell of bullshit. Some of us gave generously of our time and money to Baby Jesus Obamabigot and were hoping for a little more than just broken promises from another empty suit. So yeah, we are a little upset, and we are paying attention.

This website is one of the very few having the balls to call Obama on his promises, and not offering him excuses each and every time he slaps the LGBT Community in the face. This website has (as far as I can remember) always had eye candy offered, and those of us who like looking at attractive men, enjoy it. It is funny how when people get upset about Queerty questioning Obama, they often include a thinly-veiled homophobic dig about the pictures of semi-clad men. And yes, many gay men have issues with their own homophobia. And many gay men are just a wee bit jealous of men who take good care of their bodies. Get over it.

I love this website. It is a one stop shop for me to be able to vent about my dissatisfaction with being made a second-class citizen, and with my President, who states that God disapproves of gay couples being seen as equal, and who continually rubs elbows with the most horrible of antigay bigots such as Warren, McClurkin et al.and look at of the really hot guys, cuz I’m a big homo.

I understand that my rights are at stake, blah blah blah, but is anyone else SICK AND TIRED of the stupid back and forth on this site re: Obama not showing the gays enough love??

I GET IT.

Some of you think he’s the devil incarnate, turncoat Judas who sold us down the river once he took office.

Some of you think that there are other forces at work, and that Obama at least doesn’t deserve 100% of the vitriol he’s being targeted with.

Can we PLEASE move on?

Hey Queerty! Write about something else! It’s all half naked men and Obama rants these days.

God forbid we point out the fact that Obama campaigned with gay haters such as Donnie McClurkin and Mary Mary. How dare we point out that he chose homohater Rick Warren to have the highest honor a memeber of the clergy can receive from a new President. How dare we be upset that Obama dealt the death-blow to defeating Prop 8 by stating days before the election that he is against same sex marriage because “God is in the mix…”

If you point out Obama’s horrific treatment of the LGBT Community, his lies and broken promises used to swindle us out of money and time that would have been better spent defending our rights, we are insta-magically racists and Obama haters. Puhleeeeeze.

Obama’s thin charm is wearing thinner and thinner daily. He is a slick and slimely douchebag politician. When will the Obamabots wake up and smell the bullshit?!?!

I have an honest question though.

What is it exactly that’s being sought by achieving legal gay marriage?

Is it just the benefits of being married that straight couples receive, being allowed equally to gay couples? (giving gay couples the same legal benefits as straight couples)

I have a theory that I’d really like running past someone here, who’s gay, that believes in gay marriage.

You can email me on my alias email, Temporary3033@Yahoo.com

Yes it’s a real email address and I’ll start checking it.

I have an idea that may get the recognition everyone seeks, without having to battle the religious folk who I’ve seen make up the majority of those against gay marriage. I’ll even try to start a campaign to get the legal recognition using my idea!

Please email me! I’d really appreciate the conversation!

I still see more of the word nigger on white gay sites than the word faggot on black sites. No kidding. Go to blackplanet and black america web then come here and search through the articles.

I’m not kidding at all. Entertain yourself.

Yeah. I’ve come 100% convinced that Queerty’s bread and butter now derives comes from the anti-Obama and anti-black, gay camp. Its really sad. Sometimes I wonder if you’re more likely to read the word nigger on a gay blog’s comment section mostly treaded on by white gays than a KKK chat room. I’m not kidding you. I’m thinking of doing an experiment for such a plausible hypothesis.

Why are you interested in moribund Stalinist groups like the CP USA? They’re Democrats you know; they’ve been in your party since the 1950s, actively supporting its candidates most of the time. I’m sure you’re not bright enough to spot them but real leftists can smell them a mile away. It wasn’t for nothing that Trotsky described Stalinism as the “syphilis of the workers movement.”
It says volumes that they’re so comfortable in the Democratic (sic) Party.

You’re simply lying when you claim that the gains of the voting rights movement were due to liberals. The Kennedys, LBJ and you people opposed Malcolm X, SNCC and groups like the Lowndes County Freedom Party every step of the way, preferring to accommodate rather than engage in mass action. Concessions were only made on voting rights and antidiscrimination laws and then only when liberal right centrists like you understood, however dimly, that further delay would lead to social explosions.

Those voting rights laws over time have shown the utter futility of relying on elections to fix things. Racism and poverty still haunt minorities in the US.

Democrats are now the party of war and economic chaos. Neither you nor the Republicans have any have no answers for those questions and none for eliminating racism, anti-LGBT bigotry and sexism.

Democrats and dinosaurs are alike in their inability to know they’re politically extinct. But that’s OK, you’ll have plenty of time to figure it out.

Many have left, I can barely tolerate this site anymore, venom and frothing at the mouth rule here…

Oh no, here come the villagers with pitchforks and burning torches, have to run!

He’s also moved the war like a chess piece from Iraq to Afghanistan also btw. Pretending he is keeping his promise to end the war.

For all of the irresponsibly biased blogs and corrupt news coverate there is out there, thank goodness there is ONE responsible and respectable website daring to hold the new messiah to his promises.

If you are content to lick his boots, then by all means … go to town.

This is still a free country. You are free to read and free to not read. There is a plethora of Obamaworship all over the MSM … go, enjoy yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_rIAkb_v8

There is NO empirical evidence that “70%” of gays still support Obama in terms of his action/inaction on his LGBT promises. Roughly 73% of self-identified gays in exit polls voted for him but you’d never find CNN spending 10 minutes on a spot about gay dissastisfaction if they were any reason to believe that was still true.

Even Andrew Sullivan, who, during the primaries, did everything but declare Obama the Risen Christ and did essentially declare Hillary a psychotic, ruthless homohating liar, just questioned Obama’s inaction and whether he and others had been “fools.”

And please document your claim that a “likely still larger percentage” support HRC. Even before the ENDA T-inclusive/non-inclusive debacle, support for them was plummeting because of everything from having accomplished virtually nothing in their over 30 years/hundreds of millions of dollars in donations history to giving awards to Reichen and Lance.

Their rimming Obama may have kept them on the White House cocktail party invitation list so far, but note CNN didn’t ask THEIR opinion of Obama’s performance so far.

He can’t “wiggle his nose” and address the equality of his country’s citizens?
I guess he pretended to be Samantha leading up to the election…but is now clearly showing he’s an Aunt Clara.

Seriously, assuming that there is not a strategy could be in error. We’re talking about loaded social issues here (refer back to Prop 8 to gain perspective). He can’t just wiggle his nose and make it happen, nor would it be wise for him to publicize his strategy. What do you think those that oppose our freedoms would do if they knew what strategy would be used to do it? You don’t tell your opponents that you’re going to sneak up on them in the middle of the night of the next new moon – they’ll be waiting to take you down.

Alec, you’re such a lawyer…how the HELL do you get the energy to get into soo many f*cking debates a day???

Sheez.

How does NOTHING piss you off emotionally? You NEVER lose your cool?

Urgh.

let ‘em go elsewhwere

they can go beat off to Obama’s dot GOV site

One article looked like an attempt at more balanced, accurate coverage, but it was the only one I saw. The news reflected above is passably good, but the reporting transforms it into another one-sided riff against Obama and the HRC.

It’s the editors who are in the driver’s seat, and I guess the “new Queerty” has made a decision to let the 70% of LGBT people who support Obama – and the likely still larger percentage who support HRC – drift away.

I didn’t join them at the time, because I felt that the loss of that cross-section of people would rob the site of much of its diversity. In the end, the harm to Queerty would translate into some harm to our community as a whole and to our prospects for securing equality.

This isn’t just about the cross-section who have left. Fewer new people will join, because now Queerty reflects the views of a much smaller demographic – especially in the LGBT community. I haven’t made a decision yet for myself, but I offer these thoughts with the hope that better reporting and commentary, and a more effective nexus for social action, might still be possible.

Again, if anybody knows what HRC’s strategy is for achieving equality at the federal level, I’d love to hear it. I can’t buy a copy of it with my lovely HRC MasterCard, I can’t wear it with a lovely HRC T-shirt, and I can’t slap it on my bumper and my luggage.

Now would be a very good time for equality. Now is not the time for HRC to compromise and vascillate and in so doing to give Obama a Free Pass. The problems our country faces are only worsened when we treat our citizens unequally. The country wants a new direction, and so far, Obama has done an aweful lot of continuing in the old Bushist direction of huge bailouts for banks, using military solutions for social and political problems, tolerance of torture, and enabling a system of inequality. He needs to do SOMETHING to start charting the new course he promised us during the campaign. Equality would be a perfect place to start.

I think CTC meant that we gays should have a strategy instead of waiting for someone else to fight our battles. It’s about doing instead of talking. There are ways to maneuver and lobby in the dark, that is how conservatives have gotten their way (except when they resort to downright fear, which is their second tactic); expressing our anger at having our rights raped has proven uneffective because our opponents do not care.

Anyway, on Obama, I wish more people would say this: right now our country is in shambles. When Obama made his campaign promises, it was either before the economic crisis, or before the crisis’ full impact was grasped. Republicans, who would rather see this country drown then saved by Democrats (as per their own words, i.e.: Limbaugh, et al) are fighting everything sensible decision tooth and nail; the gay dossier is a huge on, because it is one where they still have that irrational, religious bigotted ammo to use, and it’s definitely not something Obama’s fragile government can weather right now, on top of everything else.

I am gay. I am American. I hope to marry some day (and I hope to have the money to *have* a wedding!)… BUT, the viral trends of legalization of gay marriage seems to be gaining some momentum thanks to the well-planned strategy of our own gay advocates, and does not seem to need Obama’s help. The second he snatches the issue, it will become an intense focus of the national Republican party (who right now is more focused on … the economy and their crumbling apart).

I’m also very surprised that everybody seems to have forgotten about the Bush Department of Justice. Gonzales systematically introduced partisanship within the neutral DoJ, and fired judges because they refused to fold to the Republican agenda. Does nobody realize that judges are an important part of the American fabric? That the Supreme Court is important but is not the only judicial instance of our country?

I would like to see this act punished, Gonzales prosecuted, because corrupting the judges is a sure way to muzzle any civil evolution: be it for gays, or any other second-class minority (though admittedly we’re part of the last ones … !).

i honestly think that the DNC and house dems are putting the brakes on him so they don’t lose their majority in 2010 by galvanizing the social-issue crazies.

although *i* don’t see the point of having a majority if you don’t do anything with it, i’m also not a self-aggrandizing megalomaniac like most people willing to run for national office… so for them, self-preservation will probably always trump The Cause.

If there is any evidence that HRC has a strategy, I’d love to hear it. Tea is not a strategy, unless you’re in Boston in 1773.

I’d rather he work through the process with Congress and the military to repeal DADT than commit some strange, constitutionally questionable, political suicide that will significantly hurt the chances of any more progress on LGBT issues during his administration. I still think ENDA will impact the lives of many MANY more LGBT folk than DADT ever will, and I’d rather we get that before even touching DADT.

“We’re in the midst of mind-blowing progress towards being treated equally by the law and the White House can’t muster one bit of emotion or congratulatory tone.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....98321.html

In fact, ignoring the earlier ban on gays in the interests of the country’s defense goes all the way back to WWII. It was applied again during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Gulf 1 and today.

Since 9/11, the Pentagon, who report to the President, acted on their own to ignore a law Congress had passed. That is the same kind of umbrella under which Nathaniel Frank and Aaron Belkin and others suggest Obama act: national security.

And the case can be FACTUALLY made, both generally in terms of the difficulties maintaining adequate troop strenth the military is having that has forced them to lower physical, mental, and legal standards for service [more and more are being inducted who have felony convictions] AND specifically in terms of the shortage of Arab language speakers when several gay linguists have been discharged.

As Knights Out’s Daniel Choi, now being discharged, reported:

“On Monday, September 10th 2001, a message was intercepted by the State Department: ‘tomorrow is zero hour’. Despite its simplicity, nobody was able to translate it. Any of the dozens of linguists already discharged for being gay at the time would have done so easily.”

You think Obama would fail at rubbing THAT in Congress’s face?

@Lee: I honestly don’t know what’s going on inside the administration, certainly a mixed message. I don’t necessarily disagree with you, and I was very disappointed with what Gates had to say (I opposed that selection from the beginning, albeit not because of DADT).