The moment

“I know there are differences on gay marriage, but surely we can agree on people being able to visit loved ones in the hospital, and live their lives free of discrimination.”
First time that’s ever been done by a presidential candidate. Amazing.

Gov. Rendell on Abstinence-only education

Some local news here at the PA breakfast, Gov. Rendell just mentioned that he will accept federal funding for abstinence-only education as long as it doesn’t interfere with other existing programs like Planned Parenthood. The funding is put up by the federal government as long as communities are willing to match it. It does not [...]

BREAKING: Biden on ENDA

Breaking:
What might be a precedent to the openness of the Obama-Biden campaign and the support towards the LGBT community, Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden said, when asked how he would vote if he were to cast a tie breaking Senate vote on ENDA:
“Yes, certainly I would.”
ENDA lost passage by one vote in 1996. It was [...]

Interview with Jared Polis

Jared Polis is on track to become the third openly gay member of Congress this November. Polis won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s Second Congressional District earlier this month and is expected to easily defeat his Republican challenger in his heavily Democratic district. Polis is the first openly gay individual to run for Congress from [...]

Interview with David Cicilline

David Cicilline, mayor of Providence, R.I., is the first openly gay mayor of a U.S. state capital. He was elected to the position in 2002 and is currently also serving as the president of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors.
MS: How political are you? One of your earlier schoolmates was JFK Jr. If your classmates [...]

Interview with Brian Bond

The openly gay Brian Bond is constituency director for the Obama for America campaign. Previously, he served as executive director of the Democratic National Committee’s Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council and, prior to that, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.
MS: You’ve been involved a great deal in gay political circles for many [...]

PA LGBT Delegates

Just wanted to post a photo of some of the 15 openly LGBT delegates from Pennsylvania along with Governor Rendell. Everyone was in good spirits at the delegation meeting today and looking forward to a “surprise” speaker tomorrow morning.

Hillary news from Gov. Rendell

Here at the PA delegation breakfast with some big Hillary news. Governor Rendell just announced that at 1:15 today Hillary Clinton will announce that she will be voting for Barack Obama at tonight’s convention proceedings, and is urging her delegates to do so as well.
Last night a huge party was thrown at Invesco Field for [...]

Interview with Steve Hildebrand

Interview with Steve Hildebrand
Steve Hildebrand is the openly gay deputy campaign manager for Sen. Barack Obama. Hildebrand oversees the political and field operations of the campaign and is Obama’s top-ranking openly LGBT staffer.
MS: You’ve been with Sen. Obama since the beginning. How early in the campaign were positions on LGBT issues decided, such as positions [...]

BREAKING – OBAMA INVESCO SET PHOTOS

For all of you who want Barack Obama in the White House, here you go. Barack Obama will accept the Democratic Nomination for President in a psuedo-White House set in the center of Invesco Field. He’ll make his grand entrance, walking out the White House doors, through the pillars into the garden, which [...]