Edward Norton (The Hulk) has produced a documentary which will be airing on HBO tonight. The documentary is called By the People. It is about Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. This looks like a must see. ...

Much of the political chatter this weekend has been about the withdrawal of Dede Scozzafava, the moderate Republican candidate who was forced out dropped out of the race for a seat in New York's conservative 23rd district upsate over the weekend following pressure from the far right in the form of endorsements to "true" conservative, account and businessman Doug Hoffman, from Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, William Kristol and Glenn Beck. The NYT reports: "The candidate, Dede Scozzafava, said she was suspending her campaign in the face of collapsing support and evidence that she was heading for a ...

Protect Maine Equality has released its final ad before the election on Tuesday. Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP... The AP's David Sharp looks at the race thus far: "The polls have been difficult to interpret. But both sides say the contest will be extremely close and will hinge on turnout, particularly among the 18-to-25-year-olds who went to the polls in great numbers last year to elect President Barack Obama. 'There's a knot in my stomach,' said Steve Ryan of Buxton, who operates a property management business with his partner of 34 years, Jim Bishop. 'We're very encouraged, and we're very worried at the ...

DARLENE SUPERVILLE The Associated Press Washington Post  Friday, October 30, 2009; 10:27 PM   WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early next year. The order will be finalized on Monday, Obama said, completing a process begun during ... ...

Legislation to expand hate crimes coverage to those targeted for their sexual orientation, gender, gender-identity and disability cleared its last hurdle on Oct. 22. The U.S. Senate voted 68-29 to pass the measure. President Barack Obama signed the bill on Oct. 28 in a ceremony at the White House. Senators from the Carolinas were split on [...] ...

US President Barack Obama announced late this morning his administration has lifted the ban on people with HIV/AIDS from entering the United States. The president spoke at a White House ceremony to reauthorize the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treat... ...

A Minneapolis cop described as “a determined and tough police officer” has been tapped by President Barack Obama to become US Marshal for Minnesota. Her friends tell Associated Press that the nominee, Sharon Lubinski, “played a key role in promoting better police-community relations amid a mid-1990s burst of gang violence that earned the city the nickname ‘Murderapolis’.” She is now assistant-chief of the Minneapolis Police Department and teaches a course in police diversity in the criminal justice program at a Minnesota community college, AP reports. She’s also called a “gay rights pioneer” in the AP profile. When ...

Yes We Can! Yes We Can! Yes We Can! Yes We Can! Yes We Can! Yes We Can! Yes We... Oh wait a minute, what's that calendar say? October of 2009? And we're LGBT people? Oh, oops. Well in that case: 'We' Includes LGBT people! And We Meant For That 'Can' to Come During This Century! So Can We? Yes? Can We? Yes, Please? Mr. President. Hello?! Uhm, Can We? Mr. President? Are You There? Latest stop on this year-later tour: When Barack Obama appears in Boston on Friday, LGBT activists will be on hand to tell him to follow through on his promises. ...

President Barack Obama has a vision of a unified America, breaking down barriers, and helping the middle class, preserving the environment, and ending war and conflict. He has time and time again included LGBT Americans in his speeches and says we are more than our divisions and categories, we all are Americans.The vision is undoubtedly beautiful, and inspired millions to goto the polls to elect this inspirational leader with a hopeful message. However, eight months into the administration gay rights activists are angered with the little action that has been taken thus far. There are those who demand full ...

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Yesterday and today, Q-Notes reported on a letter signed by 53 U.S. House members urging President Barack Obama to remove Department of Education Assistant Deputy Secretary Kevin Jennings, who heads up the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. I encourage you to read the article, which debunks the biggest false claim being pushed by [...] ...

Joy Behar asked Barney Frank last night about health care reform and  about his remarks regarding last weekend's National Equality March. Frank told Michelangelo Signorile before the March: "Barack Obama doesn't need any pressure on these things. Secondly, if you do want to pressure Congress, I don't know what standing on the Mall on a weekend when no member of Congress is in town is going to do. All that's going to pressure is the grass." Says Frank to Behar: "I am afraid that some people will come to Washington and they will march and think they've done it. ...

Now, this is priceless. From TP: Last night, Fox News host Sean Hannity hosted a panel that debated the merits of President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. After complaining about Obama’s goal of eliminating nuclear weapons and claiming that the Nobel is undesirable because Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat receieved it, Hannity suggested an alternative recipient for the award — former President George W. Bush: HANNITY: [Yasser Arafat] got the Nobel peace prize. Excuse me, a terrorist got the Nobel peace prize. Some people deservedly so. You know who else deserved it? Ronald Reagan. And frankly, I would’ve given it ...

Right-wing groups have taken aim at an openly gay Obama Administration official after conservative media and several activists and pundits chastised the official over sex advice he gave a gay student in 1988. The attacks culminated Wednesday in a call from 26 U.S. House members for President Barack Obama to remove Kevin Jennings, an assistant [...] ...

Most Americans over the age of 20 can recall Roger Daughtry’s (lead singer for The Who) searing voice as he wailed, “Who are you?” Who are you? is also the theme music for the very popular drama CSI. As we look back over the first nine months of Barack Obama’s presidency, I think it is important for us, as Americans, to try to come to grips with who we are. Thirty years ago, I think the answer was obvious. We were the good guys. We just elected a new president, Ronald Reagan. If we didn’t know that we were ...

What does the White House think of gays demanding rights? Well, according to CNBC's John Harwood: "If you look at the polling, Barack Obama is doing well with 90% or more of Democrats so the White House views this opposition as really part of the Internet left fringe...For a sign of how seriously the White House does or doesn't take this opposition, one adviser told me today those bloggers need to take off the pajamas, get dressed, and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult." Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... ...

Just as the HRC did when they invited homophobes like Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi to be their keynote speakers, history repeated itself when the Champagne Fund (Human Rights Campaign) rewarded Barack Obama for empty rhetoric and heterosexist substance at this weekend's annual dinner.Fortunately, there were self respecting queers protesting outside the dinner. From the Washington Blade 10/11/09:Tuxedo clad guests walking to the Washington Convention Center to see President Obama's speech Saturday before the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner were greeted by a line of about 75 LGBT activists who criticized the president for not moving fast enough ...

BBC reports that US president Barack Obama will repeal "don't ask, don't tell", the policy that demands that gay people serving in the US military should keep quiet about being gay, or be thrown out (and, on the other hand, that the military should not actively research their soldiers' sexuality). He is also reported to want to repeal the Defense of the Marriage Act (the law making sure gays will not be allowed to marry) and fight discrimination concerning government benefits.The report ends in this strange sentence: "In many places in America, gay people enjoy a high profile, economic ...

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera of the program Geraldo at Large has made some remarks tonight after President Barack Obama spoke at the Human Rights Campaign. In referencing Obama's comments about the Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill passing the house Geraldo as part of a broader commentary said:"Matthew Shepard was killed because he was gay... apparently"The words are shocking and offending not only to the memory of Matthew Shepard and his family, but to millions of Americans who honor him and want the hate crimes bill signed into law.This slip of the tongue is unacceptable and cannot go unnoticed.Contact ...

The collective groan you heard Friday morning came from the West Wing of the White House. As it was announced that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, his advisers scrambled to figure out, ironically, how they could possibly spin the news to minimize the negative effects. For his part, the president was appropriately reserved, noting essentially that he did not deserve the award. That may be an accurate assessment, but what is more important than the decision of the prize committee are the potential negative political effects. In our assessment, President Obama is in deep trouble ...