The Boycott is Getting Results

Following repeated actions by Barack Obama and his administration to do absolutely nothing about gay rights, including a particularly illuminating exchange between DNC Treasurer and Andrew Tobias, which I noted here.

Well, it appears that some people concluded that enough was enough, and John Aravosis launched a donor boycott of the DNC. (There is a particularly damning list of the bill of particulars at the link)

So, after months of everyone, including Barney Frank, saying that nothing could be done right now about Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT), because the plate was too full, we now treated to the spectacle of that same Barney Frank saying that DADT will be repealed in next year's defense authorization bill. (see also here)

Amazing that.

I think that if people are interested in gay civil rights, it needs to be understood that while Barack Obama and his administration may not be homophobic, they are hostile to the expenditure of any political capital on this matter.

Simply put, while they may not hate gays, they find the LGBT community inconvenient.

This means that the only way that anything is going to get done is if the LGBT community makes doing nothing even more inconvenient.