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Monday, January 14
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The national Log Cabin Republicans group today sent an email to their list urging members to send messages of support to Eastside Congressman Dave Reichert who was one of the few Republicans in the House to vote in favor of ENDA -- the Employment Non Discrimination Act that finally passed late last year after decades of futile effort. The gay GOP group writes: Rep. Reichert (R-WA) voted in favor of the Employment Non Discrimination Act (ENDA). As we know, no good deed goes unpunished and he no doubt heard from some unhappy voters in his district. Please take the time to call or send an e-mail to...
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Thursday, January 10
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Whatever one might think of the group's real-politik approach to LGBT activism, one has to admit that the Human Rights Campaign is pre-eminent among LGBT activist groups in using the press release to maximum advantage. They've shown their mastery of the flak art once again by releasing yet another rebranding of their annual "Equality Index" survey. The survey is a major undertaking, for which the group deserves praise. And HRC has never been shy about generating praise for itself, as it demonstrates with its flurry of press releases touting the release of a list what they call...
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Thursday, November 08
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Matt Foreman of NGLTF -- The Task Force -- quoted in LA Times: "The last five weeks have been divisive and ugly and utterly unnecessarily." Exactly. Too bad it took him five weeks to figure it out.
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Wednesday, November 07
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Congressman Doc Hastings (R-Pasco) tries to avoid the spotlight according to most reports. His most notable national achievement was to do virtually nothing while he was chairman of the House Ethics Committee while the GOP controlled Congress. He did, however, find himself on national TV when the committee was charged with investigating Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who resigned for sending sexually explicit e-mails to at least one underage male after the teenager had served as a congressional page. The Foley investigation was one of the few occasions when Hastings found himself on national television...
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Monday, November 05
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Gay City News (NYC) broke the story a few hours ago: House leadership apparently believes that they have the votes to pass the stripped down (what I've been calling LGB-No-T) version of ENDA in a floor vote tomorrow (Tuesday). According to GCN, Rep. Tammy Baldwin will introduce her amendment for an inclusive LGBT ENDA, but it is widely expected to fail: Baldwin has apparently made limited headway in wooing colleagues to support the inclusion of transgender protections, and ironically her measure, if put to a vote, would create precisely the framework that Frank warned against when he advised...
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Saturday, October 27
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Have you noticed the deafening activist silence about ENDA for the past few days? Blogger Chris Crane noticed and expresses a touch of tongue-in-cheek surprise that the activist aren't congratulating themselves for a job well done. It looks like congratulations may be in order, to both the "United" ENDA coalition led by Matt Foreman and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force , and Peter LaBarbera of the anti-gay Americans for Truth . They say politics make strange bedfellows, but who would have believed these two would hop in the sack for a quick lay? ... Thanks be to Foreman,...
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Monday, October 22
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Equal Rights Washington (ERW) has issued what they're calling an "urgent" notice for Washingtonians to their representaves about ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) legislation in the House. In this particular case, even calls to Seattle's Rep. Jim McDermott would be useful, according to ERW. Like most ( but not quite all ) LGBT activist groups, ERW is opposed to the version of the bill that was passed last week by a House committee. That version (what we've been calling LGB-No-T ENDA) includes job protections for "sexual orientation", but not for "gender...
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Friday, October 19
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Enough initials for you in that headline? Let's break it down: Jason Bellini [see embarrassing update note below] Matt Foreman, executive director of National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF or "The Task Force") will appear tonight on Logo TV (television; Logo doesn't stand for anything as far as we can tell). He'll discuss ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act). He'll no doubt try to explain to cutey-pie CBS News (Logo version) anchor Jason Bellini the political and activist issues surrounding the LGB-No-T version (protecting sexual orientation, ie, Lesbian/Gay...
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Saturday, October 13
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Yes, we're too late mentioning this (as we have been with just about everything) for you to get to the rally, but it's still worth noting that...
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