Rex Wockner pulled together a bracing blog post about the DOMA brief and the tsunami of gay anger that it unleashed.

Where to start? What has he done that's good? He issued a nice proclamation for pride month and he extended a few spousal benefits to federal employees' same-sex partners—sick leave and long-term care insurance, for example, but not health coverage, which he said June 17 is not within his power. That's the good news—all of it.

What hasn't he done? Anything about Don't Ask, Don't Tell, anything about the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), anything about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. He's done nothing about any of the stuff he promised the gays before they rushed to the polls en masse last November to make sure he won that election.

And, then, Mr. Obama's Justice Department filed a brief June 11 in a federal same-sex marriage case that used nearly every nasty homophobic argument in the book to argue against letting gays get married. That was the straw that broke the camel's back and unleashed a flood of harsh criticism from gay VIPs.

Wockner walks you through all those reactions: it's required reading.

Andrew has devoted all his time—and given over his blog—to the situation Iran (and he's been doing amazing work), so he hasn't been weighed in on the DOMA brief and the growing fury in the gay community. Until now:

One way to get the Obama administration's attention on civil rights is for gay people to stop funding the Democrats. That's all these people care about anyway when it comes to gays: our money. If the Democrats refuse to support us, refuse to support them. This is a start. But we need to get more creative. We need actions to highlight the administration's betrayals, postponements and boilerplate. We need to start confronting the president at his events. We need civil disobedience. We need to tell him we do not want another fricking speech where he tells us he is a fierce advocate for our rights, when that is quite plainly at this point not true.

Read the whole thing here. And you can read my call for civil disobedience here.

The Stonewall Democrats are out—and they're pissed:

The members of the Board and our membership put our hopes, our dollars and our time into ensuring the election of Barack Obama because we believed that he supported us. To now have his Administration refer to our relationships in the same terms used by our long time enemies such as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and James Dobson hurts on so many levels. To have our committed and loving relationships referred to as the moral equivalent of incest and pedophilia is not something that any of us ever expected from this Administration considering how hard we worked to be seen and respected. For that reason alone, advocating for attendance at a fundraiser to support the Administration and the DNC, while they have not condemned this hurtful language, is not something our membership will receive positively.

Says John...

The Stonewall Democrats is THE gay Democratic organization. They are partisans to the core. They don't go against the party. And no offense to our friends at SD, but they're not exactly "gay activists" either. For this organization to announce that it is pulling out of the upcoming DNC gay fundraiser is not just a big deal for the fundraiser, it's a very troubling message for the Democratic party leadership.

Let me put this another way. And again, no offense to Stonewall Dems. But these are folks that sometimes, some of us, think are more Dem than they are Gay. For them to stick it to the Democratic Party is rather huge.

No one has to tell me that I sucked during this appearance on CNN. Way too aggro, way too much shouting. Something about this format brings out the drunk-Irish-Catholic-uncle-losing-it-at-Thanksgiving in me. I apologize in advance if you opt to watch it. I'm only posting it because it illustrates just how much damage the Obama administration has done to itself—where gay issues and advocates are concerned—with that "incest and child rape and gay marriage, oh my!" DOMA brief last week.

I went on CNN last Friday night with Stampp Corbin, the former co-chair of the Obama LGBT Leadership Council during the presidential campaign and a San Diego City Commissioner, to argue about whether or not the Obama is "selling out the gay community." Campbell Brown wanted us to talk about the gays-in-the-military sellout, which was old news by last Friday night. I had just finished reading the DOMA brief that dropped Friday morning—which partly explains why my head was exploding—and I wanted to talk about that sellout. Corbin was there to defend Barack Obama. And he tried...

Oh, give the president time, there's so much on his plate, we'll see a little fierce advocacy sooner or later: Corbin ran us through all the usual excuses for the Obama's reluctance/refusal to act on any of the promises Obama made to the gay community. Which is what makes this development so significant: Stampp Corbin is the latest gay bigwig to pull out of next week's big gay DNC fundraiser. At some point between last Friday night and this morning Corbin sat down and read the DOMA brief and guess what? His head is exploding now too. This is from Corbin's post at San Diego News Network website, a post titled "The DOMA Brief Ruined Everything":

The president says he is a “fierce advocate” for LGBT rights. Really? I don’t think comparing a marriage to my partner, to marrying my niece or sister, is being my fierce advocate. I expect the president will try to distance himself from the brief and even the press statement, but it is too late. If how I feel, as one of the president’s most ardent supporters, is any indication, Obama is in for a world of trouble over the next year with the LGBT community.... Unfortunately, I will see everything that the Obama administration does for LGBT Americans through the lens of the DOMA brief. Meaning, I will be waiting for the other proverbial shoe to drop, while praying President Obama delivers on his promises.

Next week, I am boycotting the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council Democratic National Committee event honoring Vice President Biden to drive home my discontent. Many other prominent LGBT donors have also joined in the boycott. Is the announcement of benefits for LGBT federal employees to squash the boycott and the general uproar? Hmm…In politics, money talks. It is unlikely that Obama just put together this announcement in the last week to throw a bone to my community; it has been in the works for many weeks. I would have celebrated loudly had this been announced before the DOMA debacle, but now I will only give polite, muted applause. That pesky DOMA brief has ruined everything.

Mr. President, your DOMA mistake awakened a sleeping giant. He is mad as hell and is not going to take it anymore. You better get LGBT affirming legislation moving quickly or the coffers of the LGBT community will be slammed shut on the fingers of your administration and the DNC.