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In reply to the discussion: Mr. President, the GayTM is no longer in service. [View all]jsmirman
(4,507 posts)Speaker after speaker, including all of the most important ones (except, yes, Clinton) specifically reaffirmed their support of the LGBT community.
And at what fucking cost? You think that's politically easy? You think that's a polling slam dunk? I had my ears open to mentions of LGBT issues. One speaker after another. And I think that's great.
Please go back and listen to each of those speeches, see how speaker after speaker glowingly supported issues that have electoral challenges, and still complain that it wasn't perfect enough.
I agree with the poster in #4 just about, well, never, but she's right on this one. If speaker after speaker powerfully and resonantly taking up your cause isn't enough to keep "the GayTM" open, well that is a bank with unreasonable requirements.
I wish he hadn't spoke and I'm sorry he did, but as per post #4, they were obviously between a rock and a hard place. But close the GayTM. Let Dolan win. Because then we can elect a party that really hates your ass, we can totally lose the gains toward equality on marriage and everything else, and you can be that much more happy being a martyr.
If LGBTers are playing right into Dolan's trap - allowing his actions to further the cause of the party that is truly intolerant - well, anyone doing that is straight up fucking up. I'm sorry, but there's no sugar-coating it.