It is not Secretary Clinton's credibility on social issues that many Democrats

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21. What has annoyed me is discovering that all the straight folks who have taken economic advantage

of the LGBT community for so very long are unaware that their bigotry has had profound economic effects on us.
It's disturbing to be lectured to that 'jobs matter more than gay rights' when the longest standing legislative battle in the LGBT rights movement is ENDA, still not passed into law. Jobs. Protection from discrimination in employment is how this movement said hello to Congress. How is it that the straight progressives see that as just some 'social issue'?
The first LGBT issue I voted on was the Briggs Amendment. This was also about employment equity. The ballot question was simple, yes or no, should we fire all the gay teachers and those who support them?
The larger progressive left should have been our natural and leading allies in those fights. Instead I am told 'gay issues' are not about 'the really important things'.
The first many LGBT political actions I was involved with targeted Insurance and Phama Companies. Financial institutions. The very first ACT UP NY action in 1987 took place on Wall St, the theme 'No More Business As Usual'. The papers accurately reported that 'homosexuals' were arrested at the protest. The larger progressive left had no part it that first occupation of Wall St.

If you read the speeches of Harvey Milk, he speaks of economic issues constantly, of job opportunity and neighborhood empowerment, of marijuana reform, of racist tax laws, of Apartheid in South Africa and of poverty in America. About the struggles of the elderly and disabled, of immigrants and of every single person, equally and without reservation.
To reduce all of this to 'social issues' is pitiful, it seems to me that many straight progressives slept through the largest movements of our time, never even noticed what they were about. 'Oh, gays. AIDS stuff'.
Next time they see a massive people's movement, they should join in even if the people are LGBT or some other racial group. It's a thought.