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Showing videos filed under: don\’t ask don\’t tell
The F Word: Do Ask, Don't Tell
July 13, 2010The White House has pulled quite a bait and switch on the LGBT community. LGBT voters came out and contributed en masse to Barack Obama's camapign. A year ago, they were promised action on, among other things, repeal of the military's discrimination policy, Don't ask Don't Tell. This May it seemed they'd won. To much ballyhoo, on the eve of a war appropriation vote, the White House announced what sounded like that action.The F Word: Baby Steps Toward Equality
May 25, 2010It's over a year into an Obama administration, and already that word “compromise” has been heard too much. Yet when the news hit Monday night that the administration had agreed to a compromise that would see Congress voting on overturning Don't Ask Don't Tell, hopes rose again.Pushing Harder Against Don't Ask Don't Tell
April 22, 2010This week in front of the White House, uniformed members of the United States Armed Services were arrested for handcuffing themselves to the fence in a call for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. President Obama has promised to overturn the Clinton-era rule, but so far hasn't done it. The action, along with another action this week demanding a swift vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, were coordinated by GetEQUAL, and are part of what may be a new wave of direct action targeting Obama and Democrats.The F Word: All The News That's Fit To Print?
March 18, 2010A top general appears in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee and what does he say? Well, it depends what you read, doesn't it? Read the New York Times, the Hill and most of the U.S. press and the general came out (as it were) for the first time, for a review of the Pentagon's Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy. Significant, newsworthy? Absolutely. But just as newsworthy were comments the General made about U.S./Israel relations. Comments which didn't make it into those papers.Progressive Politics and the LGBT Movement
July 1, 2009What can the progressive movement learn from the LGBT community? On the 40th anniversary of Stonewall there has been a good deal of reflection and soul searching on the role of the struggle for gay rights within the larger civil rights movement. Yesterday when Barack Obama met with gay couples in the White House he said, “It’s not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African-Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half-century ago.Progressive Politics and the LGBT Movement, US-Russia Relations, and A Tribute to Michael Jackson
June 30, 2009What can the progressive movement learn from the LGBT community? On the 40th anniversary of Stonewall there has been a good deal of reflection and soul searching on the role of the struggle for gay rights within the larger civil rights movement. Yesterday when Barack Obama met with gay couples in the White House he said, “It’s not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was