This wouldn't be happening...
After five months of virtual inaction on the gay rights agenda, House Democratic leaders on Wednesday met privately to chart out a strategy for advancing the constituency groupâs priorities in the 111th Congress.Headlining the meeting was Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who with her leadership team and the three openly gay Members of CongressâReps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.)âsought to map out a way forward on several key gay rights bills.
...if this wasn't happening.
Tonight's LGBT Leadership Council Dinner is a $1,000-a-plate minimum fundraiser featuring Vice President Joseph R. Biden. The fundraiser has become the target of gay activists who are pressuring gay donors to stop giving to the Democratic Party. The gay activists argue that so long as the âgay ATMâ is filling Democratic Party coffers, the party is likely to continue offering lip service over action on gay rights....Donors began to flee after boycott organizers announced they would picket outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel tonight, and gay weekly the Washington Blade said it will video tape anyone who crosses their picket line.