Well, this is kind of really great.
Yesterday was LGBT Community Center Awareness Day.
And in celebration of LGBT Community Awareness Day, at the opening of Fort Lauderdale’s new Pride Center, Terry Stone, Executive Director of the umbrella organization that unites and services Gay and Lesbian Community Centers worldwide, read a proclamation from Barack Obama that praised and celebrated LGBT Community Centers.
In the proclamation, Obama writes:
We are strongest when we work together . . . we look to the future with courage and optimism, and we remain determined in our resolve to forge a better future for all Americans.
Watch Stone read Obama’s entire proclamation.
16. September 2009 at 7:38 pm
This isn’t shit from someone who promised a lot more and hasn’t even begun to deliver on anything to LGBT community. You think a proclamation is “kind of really great?” It’s just more pandering without action. How about a repeal of DADA? When is a repeal of DOMA going to be introduced into Congress? Either of those ACTIONS would be “kinda great” but until something happens it’s all just talk and more pandering.
16. September 2009 at 9:07 pm
@ Hunter,
There are a few reasons why I thought this was kind of really great, but mostly it was because of this: LGBT Community Center Day was missed by most of the gay sites — I don’t know of any other site that wrote about it at all yesterday, but it was something that the Obama administration caught. And not only was LGBT CCD acknowledged, it was given a bit of attention by the President. To me, that says someone in the Obama administration is keeping an eye on the LGBT unrest. And that is kind of great.
Trust me, I’m right there with you with you with being fed up with the waiting for the Obama administration to do something meaningful for us. Like ordering DADT discharges to stop, immediately.
And, did you see this? It’s about the introduction of the DOMA-repealing Respect for Marriage Act in the House.
17. September 2009 at 12:32 pm
This is kind of great and you’re absolutely right that that day went by unnoticed by most. Gay people are so disproportionately angry with Obama it’s now embarrassing to me; it’s taken on a weird vibe like he’s a cheating husband or something. He hasn’t changed the world in 8 months. Could he have stopped DADT expulsions? Yes, I’m with you—he should have. Was the DOMA brief disgusting? Yes, though it wasn’t his personal diary and in no way can it be rationally argued that that brief reflected his beliefs more than it reflected a huge misstep as he was learning how to govern. But more and more, I’ve begun to think that gay people are just going to scream bloody murder until we get all our civil rights…and then vote Republican from there on out. Maybe not, but I’m so fed up wit the scorched-earth, politically unsavvy reactions.