Word: lgbt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stir up their base. They used the breakdown of the traditional family as a rallying point around which millions of voters were mobilized. Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer on History and Literature and Public Policy and a member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Task Force, put it best: “Republicans made Democrats look like the vessel for the homosexual agenda...
...can’t say that I am elated by the silence that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues have received during this long and hard-fought race—a race so often touted for breaking glass ceilings. I can’t help but worry that this silence is the product of apathy among progressives in the fight to end homophobia rather than a sea change in America’s opinion of LGBT people and their “lifestyles...
...country’s acceptance of LGBT people has changed remarkably, of course, in the past generation, but the recent killing of a gay 14-year-old in Los Angeles by his classmate is just another reminder of how much work remains. If the “ceiling” that still confronts LGBT people in this country—“don’t ask, don’t tell,” marriage prohibitions, and homophobia in general—is going to be broken, silence will not be the tool that does...
...have sympathy, however, for Democrats who say, “Wait. LGBT issues will only make us lose the election. Isn’t it better to look the other way and make sure a Democrat gets elected? What will a Republican in the White House do for LGBT issues, anyway...
...Nothing, I agree. But the cynic in me also questions whether a Democrat in the White House will ever vigorously support LGBT rights if he—or she—does not believe victory hinged on voters mobilized around this issue...