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Urvashi Vaid: We Need Progressive, Multi-Issue Movements
December 22, 2010
"The national movement has shrunk its vision," says Urvashi Vaid, organizer, activist, and Visiting Scholar with the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Department of Sociology. The LGBT movement has become too focused on appeasing, and remains centered around the needs and wishes of white middle-class men--at the expense of women and people of color, and poor people around the country.
Kai Wright: Outside Action Moved DADT, DREAM Act
December 21, 2010
This weekend saw critical votes on Don't Ask Don't Tell and the DREAM Act--one victory and one defeat for progressives. Kai Wright of ColorLines notes that it was grassroots organizing and militant activism that brought both these bills to the point of passage. "In the end it's the outside that moves people. Literally outside the White House, chained to the fence, or DREAM act students hunger striking," he notes.
The F Word: Coming Out for the Right to Serve-Or Protest
December 20, 2010
Seventeen years after Bill Clinton's “Don't Ask Don't Tell” compromise, the institutionalized closet in the military should soon be gone. With the Senate vote to repeal, lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans have won the right to serve openly without fear of losing their jobs. Next it should be all workers. Congress needs to pass a comprehensive Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And then we all need to think about coming out.
Megan Carpentier: Congress Votes, Progressives Debate
December 17, 2010
Congress is passing tax cuts for the rich as well as everyone else this week, while Don't Ask Don't Tell is headed for a stand-alone vote in the Senate. Is gridlock over, or are these just issues that actually have some bipartisan support? Meanwhile, Julian Assange may be out on bail, but the debate over the charges against him still rages, and Megan Carpentier of TPM reminds us that it's possible for the arrest to be politically motivated and the charges still not be false.
Veterans' Day: Are We Still Failing Our Soldiers?
November 12, 2010
It's Veterans' Day--originally Armistice Day, initiated to mark the ending of World War I and create a day "dedicated to the cause of world peace.” Peace was erased from the construction of the holiday with the switch to Veterans' Day, but what about the veterans? Gay and lesbian soldiers are still being discharged, women in the military face abuse and questioning of their status, and suicide rates among veterans are still sky-high.
The F Word: Time to Stop Making Nice to Military
November 10, 2010
President Obama's go-slow approach to ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" discrimination in the military has left repeal on life support in a lame-duck session of Congress. Well thanks for nothing, Mr. President. But it's not just him. How about our justice strategy? As we mark another Veterans -- or Armistice - Day, with LGBT vets shut up and shut out, it's time we called an Armistice on making nice to our military.
Kate Clinton: Really Graphic
October 27, 2010
Kate Clinton's trying to figure out just why LGBT Americans might be a little depressed this election season. Could it be Sharron Angle? Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Marriage equality? She tracks our country's up-and-down movement on her "It Gets Better" index, and reminds everyone to get out and vote on November 2nd.
Deepak Bhargava: Stop Apologizing, Start Fighting
September 23, 2010
"The first step is to stop apologizing," says Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change. "We have ideas; we are often cowed by the ferociousness of the argument from conservatives." Indeed, in the wake of Larry Summers' departure from the Obama administration--and the news that the administration wants to head off criticism that it's been anti-business--as well as the failure of Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal and the DREAM Act in the Senate, it often seems like conservatives are winning.
The F Word: Do Ask, Don't Tell
July 13, 2010
The 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, 2010
It'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.

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