All posts tagged "barack obama"
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Obama Addresses LGBT Record, “a Little Debate Going on Here in New York”
Tonight, President Barack Obama — with emcee Neil Patrick Harris — addressed a crowd of about 600 supporters who paid a minimum of $1,250 for...
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In Advance of Obama Broadway Events, White House Plays Down Hopes for Obama Marriage Statement
[Obama for America 2012 representatives gather outside the Broadway Theater production of Sister Act on June 23, in preparation for President Obama’s evening visit and...
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White House Comm Dir: Obama Didn’t Fill Out 1996 Marriage Survey Answer [w/ UPDATE]
The news of the day from Netroots Nation, taking place in Minneapolis, came when White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer stated that then-state senate candidate...
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DADT's Six-Month Mark
On Dec. 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act into law. Despite the almost six months that have passed...
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History of Pride
Almost three decades before Stonewall, a gay African-American man named Bayard Rustin organized a 1941 March on Washington so successful that it never even took...
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White House Sidesteps Deportation Moratorium, Favors Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Asked today to explain the difference between a 2009 moratorium on deporting certain widows and widowers of U.S. citizens and the White House’s failure to...
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Air Force Spokesman: “The Airman 1st Class made a statement that he was a homosexual.”
An Air Force spokesman told reporters that the April 29 discharge of an Airman under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the first such discharge since...
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Winning the Future, LGBT-Style
The Obama administration — ever eager to advance its 2011 theme of “winning the future” — has now extended the three-word slogan to lesbian, gay,...
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Obama Issues Pride Proclamation for 2011 — With No Mention of Relationship Recognition
The White House today released President Barack Obama’s proclamation commemorating the 2011 Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, presenting his own pride in signing...
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John Bryson to be Named Commerce Secretary, Out Gay Option Passed Over
Today, the White House announced John Bryson as the president’s pick to succeed Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, recently named as Obama’s next ambassador to China....
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HRC Endorses Obama Re-Election
Before D.C. residents can head to the beach for Memorial Day weekend 2011, the Human Rights Campaign — nearly 18 months from Election Day and...
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Black and White
Appeals to race remain popular at both ends of the political spectrum. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on May 13 called President Obama ''the...
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White House Opposes DADT, Marriage Provisions in Defense Bill — Stops Short of Veto Threat
Today, the administration issued its Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) regarding the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), as passed by the House Armed Services Committee...
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Obama Does Not Mention Same-Sex Bi-National Couples in Extensive Immigration Speech
Today, in an extensive speech addressing his aims for comprehensive immigration reform, President Barack Obama spoke to a crowd in El Paso, Texas, about his...
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Discussing DOMA: An Anniversary — and Rarely Told Tales
This September, same-sex couples in America will have lived under the Defense of Marriage Act — a federal law that both defines those relationships out...
