>park services officials tried to limit attendance at 1,500 (it usually reaches 5,000)and ban the live concert, supposedly an effort to curb littering and obstruction to beach goers.

Yeah, littering...right. Nothing scares 77% of the population more than a large group of "non-whites"--except a large group of non-white GLBT people of course.

Is the Lieberman item simply a statement of fact, or are we to infer that gays in Connecticut are or should be single-issue voters?

Oh, so Queerty is now supporting Grandma Joe Lieberman? What the fuck, guys? Almost without exception, the political "news" on this site seems to be informed by stuff David overheard while sipping a Stella at Starlight with Pink is the New Trent. (Let's not forget Miami Dan's impassioned defense of the Bush Administration around Eastertime.) Maybe you guys should just stick to posting pictures of grossout muscle queens posing in tacky 2xist thongs. UGH!

Remind me, again. Was it's Lieberman's support of the Defense of Marriage Act that was an example of those "healthy relations" with the gay community? Or perhaps it was the way he undercuts his own party whenever the President or the Republicans want to enact something that will have a negative impact on everybody but rich, white, straight men?

It's worth noting: Lieberman opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment. Instead he favored allowing individual states choosing whether to allow same-sex marriages.

Meanwhile, not that we're necessarily falling in line with the endorsements of the Human Rights Campaign, but Lieberman has the org's support (which, to be fair, has angered some HRC members). Specifically, as HRC president Joe Solomnese is quoted in the above references article, for his "consistent opposition to efforts to put discrimination in the U.S. Constitution, Senator Lieberman is a trusted ally in Congress."

Lieberman also signed 2001's Employment Non-Discrimination Act, barring employers from discriminating against hires based on, among other things, sexual orientation.

Though yes, it is certainly important to note Lieberman is not backing gay marriage. Lamont, meanwhile, has been in favor of gay marriage since the beginning of his campaign.

Far be it for us, however, to consider gay marriage the only worthwhile policy stance to monitor.

Please, please, PLEASE stop the insanity!!!

Joe Lieberman is a terrible Senator. I don't care whether or not he likes the gays. However he feels, Ned Lamont (his challenger) will do a lot more to support gays.

And he won't support Iraq and dozens of other anti-progressive policies that I would argue most gay people want achieved.

I'd like to chime in and say that I am avidly opposed to Joe Lieberman's reelection. He has gone even further than Tom "Spineless" Daschle by actually becoming a tool for the Bush administration, and he deserves the same fate as Mr. Daschle in my opinion.

Plus he should get an extra spanking for that homophobic attack ad he put out a while ago:

http://www.queerty.com/queer/politics/lieberman-hates-on-the-gays-20060627.php