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. The entire article is here:
http://www.advocate.com/issue_story_ektid73731.asp

clipped from www.advocate.com 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.’ ”