President Obama will speak tomorrow at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, which considers itself “America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.” President Clinton was the very first U.S. President to ever address the group back in 1997, making Mr. Obama only the second President to do so thus far. The speech will come one day before the National Equality March on Washington, where participants will call for equal rights for gays, lesbians and transgendered people. In his speech, President Obama will likely address his still unfulfilled campaign promise to end “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” which would allow gays to serve openly in the military. He may also discuss a bill currently headed for passage in Congress that will allow for same sex marriages in the District of Columbia.
President Obama will speak tomorrow at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, which considers itself “America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.” President Clinton was the very first U.S. President to ever address the group back in 1997, making Mr. Obama only the second President to do so thus far. The speech will come one day before the National Equality March on Washington, where participants will call for equal rights for gays, lesbians and transgendered people. In his speech, President Obama will likely address his still unfulfilled campaign promise to end “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” which would allow gays to serve openly in the military. He may also discuss a bill currently headed for passage in Congress that will allow for same sex marriages in the District of Columbia.
Not a fan of HRC; it strikes me as being more of a gay "establishment" organization, ran mostly by middle, and upper-middle, income gay White men (meaning OLD school mentality, NOT grassroots and NOT much REAL change either.But there's another story being highlighted across the world todat DJ:Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace PrizeHuffpost, CNN, et al.[OSLO — President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. ]