Do you have any idea what the LGBT White House Liaison does? Yep, neither do we. But after one month of not fully having one it looks like we’ll be getting a new one! His name is Gautam Raghavan and he used to be a Pentagon official. Ooooh! Maybe he’ll help make the LGBT movement more militant and covert. That’d be rad.
In actuality, the LGBT White House Liaison advocates gay issues within the building, lets people know where the President stands on LGBT issues, and explains the work progress of equality legislation.
So what are Raghavan’s qualifications?
1) He’s gay. Gay as a fox.
2) He was one of the Pentagon officials who managed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal process and we all know how that turned out.
3) He has a lot of fundraising experience having worked for the Democratic National Committee’s Midwest finance director.
4) He’s also has experience fundraising for the Indian-American and South Asian-American communities nationally, which brings some racial diversity to the table.
5) He looks like a young Eugene Levy.
6) A former colleague says that Raghavan is “able to juggle a number of competing constituencies… in an unbelievably competent manner.”
Sounds good! We welcome him to the gang and, as RuPaul would say, Good luck… and don’t fuck it up.
Little Kiwi
he has a rad name and he’s HANDSOME!!!
i approve 🙂
disco lives
A lot of people in politics from both parties get jobs they aren’t really qualified for.
Michael [email protected]
If that “former colleague,” lesbian Kapo for the Pentagon Winnie “Lizzie Borden” Stachelberg, thinks a fag Kapo AT the Pentagon is a great choice THEN WE’RE DOOMED! Stachelberg, who once worked at HRC where she helped turn it into a spineless, money-sucking monster, BRAGGED about being the one who took an ax to the original DADT repeal bill—drafting the so-called “compromise bill” and GUTTING any ban on discrimination against gays IN the military or bar to discharges being brought back in the future because the Pentagon DEMANDED it or they’d tell THEIR allies in Congress not to vote for ANY kind of repeal. YES, You Whore For Pentagon Homophobes—”the results DO speak for themselves!”
cminca
In other words–it is donation solicitation time!
Cam
“3) He has a lot of fundraising experience having worked for the Democratic National Committee’s Midwest finance director.”
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The only reason anybody gets a job in Washington.
delurker
@Michael [email protected]: Clinton signed DADT, Obama repealed it. That is all.
Ernst
What, no comment about how he’s “handsome” or “easy on the eyes”? C’mon, if you’re not judging men based on their looks, whatever the context, then you’re not Queerty.
Kev C
Meh, Obama hires a gay guy to a mid-level position during his last year in office. And a non-representative gay at that. Fail.
Ronbo
@delurker: What you may have forgotten is that Obama acted to push DADT repeal out to his second term (like that is going to happen). It was Peolsi who is the real DADT hero. She pushed the legislation through the house AFTER Obama told here to table the legislation. After it failed when it was attached to a military appropriation bill. Nancy went against Obama and continured to move DADT repeal legislation.
Obama wanted to use DADT repeal as part of his re-election effort. He didn’t want to have to use DOMA – he is still against marriage equality. (He used to be for it. But, he needs re-election fodder).
Cam
@Ronbo:
EXACTLY, the White House press secretary stated clearly that there would be NO DADT repeal in the near future. It was Pelosi, after being pressured by grass roots that got this ball rolling.
Funny enough, HRC minions keep trying to defend Obama by claiming that the SECRET plan was always to do it now….yyyyeeeeaaaahhhh right. The exact same way that HRC comes out AGAINST lawsuits to get gays rights and then claims to have been for them if they turn out to be successful.
the crustybastard
@delurker: Clinton signed DADT, Obama repealed it. That is all.
…decreed the Mayor of Simpleton.
Michael [email protected]
@delurker:
“After months of being accused by gay rights supporters of not pushing aggressively enough for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, what finally got the White House moving and sealed the deal on a DADT compromise … The final push came from the Hill, where key members of Congress who support repeal, like Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made it clear that they were moving forward with repeal legislation with or without the White House’s blessing.
‘Levin and others made it clear that the train was leaving the station and the White House not only was not conducting but they weren’t even on board’, Alex Nicholson, executive director of Servicemembers United, an advocacy group for gays in the military, said in an interview with TPMDC. ‘They were backed into a corner and it was blatantly obvious so they finally decided to get on board’.” – Talking Points Memo DC, May 26, 2010.
“During his State of the Union address President Obama gave a major boost to the campaign to repeal the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy when he called for its repeal. Then a timeless Washington tradition kicked in and the can was a given a swift kick down the road. ….. Pelosi said the House WEAKENED its repeal language TO MOLLIFY THE WHITE HOUSE. Military leaders REFUSED to accept language that would BAR DISCRIMINATION [in the military], so the clause was dropped.” – The Huffington Post, June 3, 2010.
delurker
@Kev C: what the hell is a “non representative gay?” a gay who is not white?
haha, the disgruntled clintonistas are mad. awww.
Kev C
@delurker: He’s a pentagon employee and he’s not even out at work. And he’s the president’s liason to the LGBT community?
He’s not in the closet. He’s in the cabinet.
Queer Supremacist
So Massa Obama found himself a new House Faggot. Is he also a self-loathing shill for the administration willing to tap dance at Massa Obama’s command?
Michael
@Queer Supremacist:
You may not like Obama thats your right to do that thats your opinion.
But Massa is a racist term no reason to slam his race just because you do not like him.
What does it continue to say about this community when we use terms like FAGGOT against one another also?Makes no sense and continues to make no sense.Just my opinion.
Little Kiwi
as I said to someone before “I’ll stop calling you a racist when you stop calling President Obama a Kenyan-born Muslim”
massa? REALLY? it’s just so galling that in 2011 there are still people, and gay ones no less, who are reflecting and embodying the spirit of bigotry that has tainted this great nation for far too long.
it’s 2011. being racist makes you about as edgy, hip, intelligent, and “with it” as Jesse Helms, and that old bigot is rotting six feet under ground.
Michael
@Little Kiwi:
Obama is not a Muslim that was an error in judgement on my part.
The end.
Kev C
Massa is not a racist term. It denotes someone who is a butt kisser, a brown noser, a boot licker, a toady. Mr Ragavan certainly is a CRONY whose only qualifications for the job is fundraising for the democrats.
I’m sure someone on Youtube is using improper language. You better rush over there and chastise them.
Michael
@Kev C:
Umm Massa is a racist term its the same thing that african americans used to say to their white slave owners.It is indeed racist sorry .
Kev C
Massa/Massah is not a racist term. It’s just a colloquial (slang) term used for satirical effect.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=massah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcwyOaYyu7Y
Michael
@Kev C:
But why did african americans have to call their owners massa then? Back then their owners who were white wanted to be referred to as master or massa because they believed that african americans were beneath them and should be their slaves. I understand what you mean I am just trying to make you understand that that term mocks african americans especially when it is used on the context in which QueerSupremacist used it.
Steve
After he explains his plan for getting the Respect for Marriage Act (aka, DOMA repeal) passed, then I will make a decision.
Until then, this is just a PR announcement with no actual content.
Queer Supremacist
@Michael: Do you have to have every word spelled out for you?
I stand by my calling the President “massa,” because he expects us to grovel before us and submit to his will, as if it were a form of intellectual and political slavery to a cowardly party that will gladly stab us in the back while the GOP stabs us in the front, and Raghavan is one of his House Faggots, like the slaves who kissed up to their Massas in the bad old days to gain favor with them, who used to be called “House Niggers.” Yes, I’m sorry I had to use that word to make a point. There are a lot of House Faggots who be tap dancin’ fo’ Massa Obama on this site.
We need a lot fewer House Faggots and a lot more Nat Turners.
Sumeet
I am not white and I get Queer Supremacist’s point. Can we please stop all this “political correctness” gone crazy. I think it is fair to say that Obama doesn’t have any real respect for gay people.
Steve is right. This is a political appointment to camouflage Obama’s pathetic dilly-dallying on gay rights.
Will Obama speak up for Brandon White (who was bashed up by black gangster thugs) like he has been speaking up for all manner of Islamic chauvinists and closet terrorists?
I doubt it.
I was a gay activist for my ethnic community way back in 1985. If I don’t like Obama, I should be able to say it. Even mock him and disparage him or parody him.