NAACP President Ben Jealous speaks at the NGLTF's Creating Change

This is just a piece of his speech. Luckily, I was there to hear it all

My List of the Best Gay Cultural Moments Of 2011

I've seen some of these 'Gay Cultural' lists and thought "WTF?" Lady Gaga seems to top them all, but I believe there were more substantial things that happened this year.

In no order:

• The Obama Administration stop defending DOMA 

• The Comic Book world continued to introduce and develop LGBT characters like Kevin Kellor, Bunker in Teen Titans, Voodoo in DC Comics, Wiccan and Hulking in The Young Avengers and Wolverine's son, Daken. In fact, there were more LGBT characters this year than before.

• We lost more teens to bullying, however our lost inspired more attention to the issue nationally. It even inspired Zachary Quinto to come out.

•  New York became the 6th state to have Marriage Equality. And slightly more Americans are open to Marriage Equality this year as well.

• DADT was put to death, completely.

• Over 50 LGBT candidates won in elections.

• Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's landmark Human Rights Day speech.

• Don Lemon comes out. Putting a face to LGBT people of color on television.

• Chaz Bono on Dancing With The Stars. He brought much needed attention to the Trans community. 

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Survey Time! Please Give Us Your Opinion!

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Barney Frank's Gloomy Outlook for LGBT Rights

Barney Frank didn't lift my spirits with his outlook of the next 2 years involving LGBT rights. Here is what he said in the Washington Blade:

“Next year there’s no chance of anything happening,” he said of pro-LGBT legislation. “There’s zero chance.”

He added, “It will be a status quo. They don’t have the votes to hurt us but we don’t have the votes to advance anything in the cause.”

Frank also said he was certain that Republicans would fail in an attempt to overturn D.C.’s same-sex marriage law.

“Do you think Barack Obama is going to sign a bill to repeal the D.C. marriage law,” he asked. “It won’t go through the Senate. There is no chance that could happen. None—zero.”
Frank noted that only five out of 179 House Republicans voted earlier this year to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

“The Republicans have become much more anti-gay in their voting patterns,” he said. “There is zero chance of anything good happening with Republicans in control of the House.”
Frank said he was hopeful that the Senate would vote to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the congressional lame duck session over the next two weeks.

I'm still hopeful, though.

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