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Monday, November 03

Gay Foes Use Obama Image To Target Black Voters

Social conservatives looking to overturn California's gay marriages are misappropriating Barack Obama's image to woo black voters. The backers of a move to ban same-sex marriage in California are inaccurately suggesting they have Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's support in a mailing...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 11-03-2008
Monday, October 20

Calling Out…

From Andrew Sullivan: "Black Californians back the anti-gay measure by a margin of 20 points, 58 - 38, in the SUSA poll. No other ethnic group comes close to the level of opposition and black turnout is likely to be very high next month. All this makes it vital, in my opinion, that Barack Obama...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-20-2008
Thursday, October 09

Lavender Scare!?

The right-wing may be gearing up to use gay marriage against Barack Obama. According to archives from the now defunct Chicago gay paper, Outlines - which later merged Windy City Times - Obama, during his 1996 Senatorial run, supported same-sex marriage, a summation based on the fact that Obama opposed...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-09-2008
Monday, October 06

Prop 8 Backers Claim Black Barack Helps Their Cause

It's not just the presidential candidates who are getting nasty this nearly-there election season. Right-wing activists supporting California's Proposition 8, which will re-ban gay marriage, have invoked Barack Obama in their fight, saying the Senator's race lends them an inadvertent helping...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-06-2008
Tuesday, September 30

Wentz Joins Marriage Fight

Of all this election season's ridiculous stories, one of the most memorable must be John McCain's ridiculous "celebrity" commercial campaign. Hoping to diminish opponent Barack Obama's respectability, McCain portrayed the Senator as a tabloid idol on the same level as Paris Hilton...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 09-30-2008
Thursday, August 28

Video: A first. In front of millions upon millions.

The sentiment is nice. But the resounding applause might be even nicer: Now, is Barack's stance exactly, 100% what we LGBTs want to hear? No, not quite. Not yet. But can we work with this? Yes. Yes we can. **AFTER...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Good As You on 08-28-2008
Monday, August 25

Out Owner Not About Obama

The Democratic Party hopes to project a united front at their convention in Denver, which begins today. Not all Democrats, however, are backing the presumptive nominee, Barack Obama. Gay media honcho Paul Colichman, a former Hillary Clinton backer who owns Regent Entertainment, Out and The Advocate,...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 08-25-2008
Monday, August 18

Video: A civilian's civil-igion marriage view

::sigh:: Obama @ Saddleback Church -Defines Marriage [YouTube] **Headline note: Civil-igion: The marriage of civil concepts with personal religion, creating a situation that muddies what this debate is truly all about.

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Good As You on 08-18-2008
Thursday, June 19

Gay Marriage Key In Florida

While we’re on the subject of gay marriage and the presidential election, Florida’s proposed ban on same-sex nuptials could be essential this November: [Florida] has a large evangelical community and where the presidential contest is shaping up to be tight. According to the latest Quinnipiac...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-19-2008
Monday, June 16

Video: A change we <em>wish</em> he'd believe in

California may be marrying gay couples even as we write this. Barack Obama, however, still has cold feet: "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman." Wow, that's really starting to sound more and more hostile. As CA...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Good As You on 06-16-2008

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