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...will take," says Chris Hartman, executive director of the Fairness Campaign in Louisville, Ky. Hartman's group has successfully pushed for a local ordinance giving gays there protection against discrimination at work and in housing, but so far has been unsuccessful in convincing lawmakers to allow gay marriage. "LGBT Americans have been waiting decades to see simple civil rights, and many of them are running out of time - we cannot wait forever...
...according to media reports the act surprised those who know Schroeder, who served as co-president of Lambda, the school’s LGBT student organization, during his time as a student...
Some of these protestors followed Obama downtown to the Westin Copley Place hotel, the site of a fundraiser for Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78. Here, they were joined by groups protesting for LGBT rights. A small crowd gathered around James Cardine, a local resident, as he spoke against society’s perception of nontraditional relationships. “We are born imperfect only because we are born here, in this country, at this time,” he said...
President Obama has disappointed on other matters as well. He’s backtracked on wiretapping and stonewalled on LGBT issues. He bailed out Wall Street but failed to put stricter measures in place to regulate the unbridled greed and corruption that caused this mess in the first place. His advisors now say that closing Guantánamo won’t be so easy, and we still don’t know whether his Justice Department will actually prosecute Bush-era officials who treated the Constitution like toilet paper. Last week, things got so bad that the president couldn?...
Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 is Director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was a founding member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council...