Gay power in the
age of Obama: Will this president -- and his appointees
-- make equal rights part of this nation’s recovery?
From The Advocate
April 2009
“I was
just at the White House!” says Joe Solmonese, who
hadn’t seen the inside of 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave. in more than eight years. The Bush administration
extended no invitations to the executive director of the
Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest gay
lobbying group. His reunion with the building was
understandably a bit emotional. After the bill
signing, Solmonese says, the Democratic strategist Donna
Brazile asked him, “ ‘What are you thinking
about?’ And I said, ‘I’m
envisioning this moment for the GLBT community and watching
the president sign a bill that will bring this measure
of equality to our community.’ As if on cue, a
number of White House staff people came over and said to
me, ‘We look forward to working to make sure that
this happens in pretty short order for the GLBT
community.’ ”
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