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Published Thursday, 14-Jan-2010 in issue 1151
“Our (gay) leaders are no longer ‘the community.’ With the advent of the Internet and modern communications, we are all (the Human Rights Campaign). Pam Spaulding is HRC. Mike Signorile is HRC. Dan Savage is HRC. Joe Jervis is HRC. Jeremy Hooper is HRC. Andy Towle is HRC. The ‘Join the Impact’ kids are HRC. And even Rachel Maddow is HRC. Our national organizations no longer have a monopoly on message or activism. And while the Obama administration and the DNC continue to control many of our leaders, our people become more angered by the day. ... We have shown with this blog, and our new generation of gay leaders across the country have proven with their successful activism, that those who would stand in the way of our human rights cannot keep us silent by simply buying off our leaders. That they cannot forestall bad press, and the increasing ire of a core Democratic constituency, by simply keeping our traditional groups, and our representatives in Congress, at bay.”
“Not only am I a single mother who’s pregnant, but I’m also a lesbian mother who is pregnant and having a baby for two gay men. That might be startling to some.”
“We do not expect to win at the trial level, but with God’s help, at least five members of the current (U.S.) Supreme Court will have the courage to defend our Constitution from this grave attack.”
“Being the first sucks. I’d rather not be the first but someone has to be first, or among the first. I think I’m experienced and very well qualified to deal with anything that might show up because I’ve broken barriers at lots of other places and I always win people over with who I am and what I can do.”
“Efforts to promote ‘transgenderism’ in public policy deconstruct one of the most fundamental concepts known to mankind. It renders gender, the most basic organization of social systems, completely meaningless. In doing so, activists like Simpson are asking the rest of society to radically reorder the ways in which the culture makes reasonable and rational accommodation for the two genders.”
“I appreciated getting a personal phone call from the president of the United States (on my election night). Now, it is a little embarrassing that I didn’t actually answer the phone call. But now I have really cool voice mail. And I’m doing my best not to erase it from my cell phone.”
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