I am not sure the Democratic Party understands the amount of anger today

[HillWilliam]

25. No. He doesn't.

LGBT people are nowhere NEAR equal citizens.

It took two years of waffling to get off the fence on DADT. A year in when he said he had a committee working on it -- then we found out there was no such a thing. My representative was one of many who sent a letter to the WH asking them to lend support to the House effort to repeal DADT. Not a word came back for months. CONGRESS got DADT done, no thanks to the POTUS. When the hard work was done, all he had to do was sign.

DOMA is still the law of the land. The administration was STILL using it to prevent federally-employed s/s couples from insuring their spouses up until late last year. The POTUS finally sent a memo to DOJ to tell them to "fail to enforce DOMA"... which is a goddam sight different to "getting rid of it". There is no discussion on getting rid of DOMA yet.

I'm tired, goddam tired, of being thrown a few crumbs with the expectation of my undying gratitude for things we LGBT people have FOUGHT for over decades. I do like the POTUS and will vote for him again, but he is not some great-big LGBT advocate. To be perfectly blunt, he hasn't tried much at all.