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发帖数: 19713 | 1 Breaking: Choi Arrested at White House Gates
By Kerry Eleveld and Advocate.com Editors
DAN CHOI WHITE HOUSE X390 (KERRY ELEVELD) | ADVOCATE.COM
Photos By Kerry Eleveld
UPDATE: Both Lt. Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo have been arrested after they
handcuffed themselves to the White House gates on Thursday afternoon to
protest "don't ask, don't tell."
Story developing...
In what appears to be an unscripted act of civil disobedience following a
Human Rights Campaign rally for the repeal of "don't ask, |
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发帖数: 4174 | 2 Posted on Advocate.com January 25, 2011
Obama: Mum on Marriage
By Andrew Harmon
Despite increased pressure from gay and lesbian advocates to “evolve” his
position on marriage equality a little sooner, President Barack Obama did
not delve into the issue for his Tuesday evening State of the Union address,
one that focused heavily on strengthening the economy and fostering
innovation in the face of a fiercely competitive global market.
The prepared remarks of Obama’s 6,757-word speech made mention ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 3 ［注：DADT（don't ask, don't tell）是禁止同性恋、双性恋服兵役的政策，于1993
年由前总统克林顿签署（貌似克林顿干了不少坏事，DOMA也是他签的）。］
Levin: DADT Hearings Pushed To Feb.
By Kerry Eleveld
CARL LEVIN X 390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Democratic senator Carl Levin of Michigan said Monday during a press
conference that "don't ask, don't tell" hearings would take place in early
February, but he stopped short of giving a specific date until after
President Barack Obama's State of the Union address this week.
"I was hoping to be able to announce a dat |
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发帖数: 19713 | 4 What Might Obama Say on DADT?
By Kerry Eleveld
BARACK OBAMA GALLERY X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Robert Gibbs confirmed Tuesday that “don’t ask, don’t tell” was being
considered for inclusion in President Barack Obama’s State of the Union
address Wednesday night, but if the president does address the policy, what
might he say?
The options range from a passing mention or a reiteration of his intent to
end the gay ban to the announcement of a commission to study the policy to
laying out a specific |
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发帖数: 19713 | 5 今天，UT的一位大学生问O总统他将为同性婚姻做些什么，O总统巧妙地把话题引向了同
性恋联邦雇员的福利问题。
Obama Passes on Gay Marriage Question
By Kerry Eleveld
BARACK OBAMA JAZZ HANDS X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
President Barack Obama was asked Thursday during a town hall meeting in
Tampa, Fla., about what he was doing to ensure that same-sex couples have
the same rights as heterosexual couples. Instead of focusing on providing
equal access to the institution of marriage, Obama highlighted legislation
in Congress that would provide certain benef |
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发帖数: 19713 | 6 草草地看了一遍，这篇文章挺informative的，但是没时间翻译了，大家草草看看吧。
DADT Repeal: Sooner or Later?
By Kerry Eleveld
DADT PENTAGON X390 (PHOTOS.COM) | ADVOCATE.COM
After President Barack Obama pledged to work with Congress and the military
“this year” to “finally repeal” the military’s gay ban, the question
quickly became: Is this a throwaway line to score some political points or
is there real power behind it?
Democratic Representative Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania, the highest-ranking
veteran elected to Congress who has a |
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发帖数: 19713 | 7 Mullen, Gates Give Historic DADT Testimony
By Kerry Eleveld
DADT GATES AND MULLEN NEW X390 (GETTY IMAGES) | ADVOCATE.COM
Defense secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday
that they support President Barack Obama’s aspiration to repeal a
discriminatory policy that prevents gays and lesbians from serving openly in
the military.
“I fully support the president’s policy,” Gates said in his opening
st |
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发帖数: 19713 | 8 周三，这位曾在当年参与制订DADT的退伍四星上将说：自DADT被立法以来的这17年里，
形势和情况都发生了变化，我完全支持国防部秘书Gates 和Admiral Mullen将问题呈递
参议院军事委员会。
Powell Backs Gates, Mullen on DADT Repeal
By Kerry Eleveld
COLIN POWELL X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Gen. Colin L. Powell changed course Wednesday and threw his support behind
the strategy of the military's top leadership to repeal the military’s “
don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
“In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ legislation
was passed, attitudes and circumstances have cha |
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发帖数: 19713 | 9 同时提交的还有11位民主党支持人名单，没有共和党支持者。
Exclusive: Lieberman Details DADT Repeal Bill
By Kerry Eleveld
JOE LIEBERMAN X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut on Wednesday will
introduce the Senate’s first “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal bill along
with eleven Democratic cosponsors including Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, who
chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, but no Republicans.
“To me, it’s very important that we repeal this law, both because it’s
fair and cons |
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发帖数: 19713 | 10 The Immigration Reform Conundrum
Many LGBT immigrants would be helped by immigration reform even if it does
not allow gays and lesbians to sponsor their partners. But should LGBT
activists support a bill that excludes LGBT families?
By Kerry Eleveld
IMMIGRATION RALLY MAIN X390 (FAIR USE) | ADVOCATE.COM
When thousands of marchers descend on the National Mall this Sunday to rally
support for immigration reform, hundreds of them will be representing the
LGBT population.
“Immigration Equality has re |
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发帖数: 19713 | 11 Choi and Pietrangelo Plead Not Not Guilty
By Advocate.com Editors
DAN CHOI WHITE HOUSE X390 (KERRY ELEVELD) | ADVOCATE.COM
Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo pleaded not guilty for civil
disobedience at an arraignment in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
They two were arrested on Thursday after chaining themselves to the White
House gate in protest of the military's ban on openly gay service members.
Paul Yandura, one of the organizers, told The Advocate that Dan and Jim were
released from police |
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发帖数: 19713 | 12 昨天，19位LGBT活动者分别到议长Nancy Pelosi位于SF和华盛顿的两间办公室内静坐请
愿，要求议会本月底对ENDA进行投票。
19位请愿者是昨天下午4点分别到达位于东西两岸的Nancy Pelosi的办公室里的，事前
，他们已经与Nancy Pelosi的工作人员约定了会面时间。两批请愿者进入办公室后，即
告诉工作人员，他们离开的条件是：要么议长答应投票，要么把他们抓起来。
Activists Arrested After Sit-it at Pelosi's
By Kerry Eleveld
Pelosi Arrest x390 (Paul Yandura) I Advocate.com
Ten LGBT activists were arrested Thursday after 19 people staged a bi-
coastal sit-in at the San Francisco and Washington, D.C., offices of House
speaker Nancy Pelosi to demand that the Employmen |
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发帖数: 19713 | 13 http://www.davidmixner.com/2010/04/twenty-most-powerful-lesbians-in-american-politics.html
1. Rachel Maddow: MSNBC的政治评论员
2. Tammy Baldwin: 国会议员
3. Hilary Rosen: 政治评论员
4. Pam Spaulding: Pam'sHouseBlend.com的出版人
5. Randi Weingarten: 美国教师联合会总裁
6. Christine Quinn: 纽约市议会发言人
7. Annise Parker: 休斯顿市长
8. Rea Carey: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force的执行主席
9. Urvashi Vaid: 同性平权运动活动家
10. Dr. Marjorie Hill: Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC)的总裁，CEO
11. Kerry Eleveld : 记者
12. Robin McGeehee: 同性平权运动活动家
13. Torie O |
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发帖数: 19713 | 14 ENDA Vote in Question
By Kerry Eleveld
ENDA UPDATE CAPITOL X390 (PHOTOS.COM) | ADVOCATE.COM
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act may be losing momentum this year based
on a strategic impasse caused by what many insiders say is a lack of
support in the Senate.
“This issue is just not ready for the Senate,” said an LGBT advocate and
political insider who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “The procedural
aspects of debate would make it way too easy for a [Sen. Jim] DeMint or a [
Sen. Tom] Cobur |
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发帖数: 19713 | 15 By Kerry Eleveld
WHITE HOUSE PRIDE EVENT X390 (GETTY IMAGES) | ADVOCATE.COM
President Barack Obama told LGBT advocates who attended a White House Pride
reception Tuesday that he would stand “shoulder to shoulder” with them as
they fight for equality across the country.
“The fact that we have activists here is a reminder that change never comes
– or at least never begins – in Washington,” Obama said. “It is when
ordinary people out of love for a mother or a father, a son or a daughter,
or a husba |
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发帖数: 19713 | 16 White House Not Budging on Gay Marriage
By Kerry Eleveld
MELODY BARNES X390 (GETTY IMAGES) | ADVOCATE.COM
In a wide-ranging interview with LGBT journalists and bloggers, White House
domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes said President Barack Obama had chosen
to take steps at the agency level to eliminate inequities for same-sex
couples and gave no indication he would move toward supporting full marital
rights.
Asked if the president would go beyond incremental fixes to address a lack
of marital |
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发帖数: 4174 | 17 Posted on Advocate.com July 15, 2010
Lawmakers Push Immigration/UAFA
By Kerry Eleveld
Key House lawmakers convened a press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill in
conjunction with an array of 37 advocacy groups to voice their support for
including LGBT families in the comprehensive immigration reform effort.
“No immigration reform measure will truly be deserving of the term ‘
comprehensive’ unless it provides equality for gays and lesbians as well,”
said Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, chief spo |
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发帖数: 19713 | 18 Obama's Legal View of DOMA a Mystery
By Kerry Eleveld
ROBERT GIBBS 1 X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that President Barack
Obama believes the Defense of Marriage Act “should be changed” but that
he does not know whether the president believes the law is constitutional.
“I have not heard the president intone what he believes the
constitutionality of the law is,” Gibbs said in response to a question from
The Advocate. “I know that he believes the |
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发帖数: 4174 | 19 Posted on Advocate.com August 26, 2010
The Ken Mehlman Interview
By Kerry Eleveld
KEN MEHLMAN 3 X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
As Ken Mehlman’s revelation that he is gay ripped through the blogosphere
late Wednesday afternoon, he boarded a plane bound for his home base, New
York City. Mehlman had first discussed his coming out story with Marc
Ambinder of The Atlantic, but he had reached out to The Advocate in advance
of its publication and made a point of offering his second interview on the
matte |
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发帖数: 4174 | 20 对我们来说，不管白猫黑猫逮到老鼠就是好猫，虽然共和党离逮老鼠还差十万八千里。
Posted on Advocate.com August 27, 2010
View From Washington
The White House may continue to wear blinders on same-sex marriage, but the
world is transforming around them as conservatives take up the mantle of
equality.
By Kerry Eleveld
But Just was just the beginning of the White House’s marriage headache. By
Wednesday, Ken Mehlman — former Republican National Committee chair, Bush-
Cheney campaign manager, and a virtual mastermind of the conservative
movem |
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发帖数: 4174 | 21 Posted on Advocate.com September 19, 2010
Gaga's Maine Event
By Kerry Eleveld
lady gaga rally x390
Lady Gaga announced via Twitter Sunday evening that she would be attending a
last-minute rally in Portland, Maine, on Monday targeted at convincing GOP
senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe to vote with Democrats to help
break a filibuster that, if successful, could effectively kill the “don’t
ask, don’t tell” repeal effort for the year.
“Meet me in Portland, Maine 2moro, 9/20 to help repeal #D |
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发帖数: 19713 | 22 DADT Repeal Fails in Senate
By Kerry Eleveld
Harry Reid X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
The tone was set for a devastating rejection of an effort to end the 17-year
-old policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military
as soon as GOP senator Olympia Snowe sent out an ominous statement Monday
afternoon.
By Tuesday afternoon, repeal advocates lost Senator Susan Collins, who said
she would join a GOP filibuster unless Senate Majority Leader Harr |
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发帖数: 145 | 23 Talking about McCain, he would just not believe in such cases.
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/09/21/mccain-seekout-dadt/
MCCAIN: We do not go out and seek. Regulations are, we do not go out and
seek to find out if someone’s sexual orientation. We do not!
ELEVELD: But senator, that’s not…
MCCAIN: That is the fact! That is the fact. Now ma’am, I know the military
very well, and I know what’s being done. And what is being done is that
they are not seeking out people who are gay. And I don’t |
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发帖数: 4174 | 24 Posted on Advocate.com October 19, 2010
Recruiters to Accept Gay Applicants
By Kerry Eleveld
A Pentagon spokeswoman says recruiters have been told they must accept gay
applicants, following a federal court decision striking down the ban on gays
serving openly in the military, the Associated Press is reporting.
As The Advocate reported last Thursday, the Department of Defense issued new
orders via e-mail late Thursday afternoon informing all five branches of
the military that they must comply wi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 25 Posted on Advocate.com November 02, 2010
Rep. Patrick Murphy Loses Seat
By Kerry Eleveld
PATRICK MURPHY X390 (GETTY IMAGES) | ADVOCATE.COM
LGBT advocates suffered a wrenching loss after Patrick Murphy, a former Army
paratrooper who championed “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal in the House,
lost his Pennsylvania seat.
Murphy, who rode into office on a Democratic wave in 2006, was summarily
ushered back out in Tuesday night’s GOP sweep, restoring Michael
Fitzpatrick to the seat he had held before be... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 26 Posted on Advocate.com November 12, 2010
Supreme Court Denies Log Cabin Request
By Kerry Eleveld
The U.S. Supreme Court voted on Friday to keep to the "don't ask, don't tell
" policy intact, rejecting a request by the Log Cabin Republicans that the
court reinstate an injunction of the policy pending appeal. The court order
was short and to the point, noting that Justice Anthony Kennedy referred the
appeal to the full Supreme Court and further advising that Justice Elena
Kagan had not taken part ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 27 Posted on Advocate.com November 17, 2010
New Hospital Visitation Rule Issued
By Kerry Eleveld
HOSPITAL VISIT RULE X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a new hospital
visitation rule Wednesday that allows patients to designate their own
visitors during a hospital stay, including their same-sex partners.
The new regulation, which will apply to any hospital that participates in
Medicare or Medicaid, will go into effect approximately 60 days from
tomorrow... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 28 osted on Advocate.com November 18, 2010
Lieberman on DADT: We Have 60 Votes
By Kerry Eleveld
DADT JOSEPH LIEBERMAN X390 GETTY | ADVOCATE.COM
Sen. Joe Lieberman said Thursday that repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell”
as part of the National Defense Authorization Act is no longer a question of
votes, it’s a question of process.
“I am confident that we have more than 60 votes prepared to take up the
Defense authorization with the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ if only
there will be a guarantee of a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 29 Posted on Advocate.com December 08, 2010
Story Updated : December 09, 2010 06:00:00 AM
Reid Stalls DADT Vote After Collins Talks
By Michelle Garcia and Kerry Eleveld
Sen. Susan Collins On Wednesday evening, Senate majority leader Harry Reid
postponed a full vote in the Senate on the bill that includes language to
repeal the military's ban on openly gay and lesbian troops. The roll call
vote is now scheduled to take place around 12:00 p.m. Thursday, shortly
after votes on the DREAM Act and the 9/... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 30 Posted on Advocate.com December 09, 2010
Story Updated : December 09, 2010 05:30:00 PM
Senate DADT Vote Fails
By Kerry Eleveld
The Senate dealt a near-fatal blow to “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal
Thursday when it failed to advance the bill to which the measure was
attached, the National Defense Authorization Act, by a vote of 57-40.
But immediately following the action, Senators Joe Lieberman, Mark Udall,
and Susan Collins breathed new life into the effort by vowing to introduce a
bipartisan st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 31 Posted on Advocate.com December 16, 2010
Reid Schedules DADT Vote
By Kerry Eleveld
HARRY REID X390 (GETTY IMAGES) | ADVOCATE.COM
Senate majority leader Harry Reid Thursday evening scheduled a vote on the
stand-alone "don't ask, don't tell" repeal bill, which is now likely to come
to vote as early as Saturday morning.
The move came after Reid pulled the Omnibus government funding bill, fearing
that Democrats could not garner the support to move the bill. Reid then
filed for a cloture vote on bot... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 32 By Andrew Harmon
JOE BIDEN BARACK OBAMA DADT SIGNING x390 (getty) | advocate.com
Not only is President Barack Obama “evolving” on his marriage equality
position. Now the second-in-command admits that embracing marriage rights
for gay and lesbian couples is inevitable.
“I think there is an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage
," Vice President Joe Biden said during a Friday appearance on ABC's Good
Morning America, though he indicated the White House's policy in suppor of
full c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 677 | 33 爆炸新闻：10位在Pelosi办公室静坐的LGBT活动者被捕
[版面:酷儿新闻][首篇作者：majia111] , 2010年03月19日12:20:27
昨天，19位LGBT活动者分别到议长Nancy Pelosi位于SF和华盛顿的两间办公室内静坐请
愿，要求议会本月底对ENDA进行投票。
19位请愿者是昨天下午4点分别到达位于东西两岸的Nancy Pelosi的办公室里的，事前
，他们已经与Nancy Pelosi的工作人员约定了会面时间。两批请愿者进入办公室后，即
告诉工作人员，他们离开的条件是：要么议长答应投票，要么把他们抓起来。
Activists Arrested After Sit-it at Pelosi's
By Kerry Eleveld
Pelosi Arrest x390 (Paul Yandura) I Advocate.com
Ten LGBT activists were arrested Thursday after 19 people staged a bi-
coastal sit-in at the San Francisco and Washin |
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发帖数: 19713 | 34 View From Washington: 2009 and Obama
By Kerry Eleveld
Barack Obama left wing x390 (photos getty) | ADVOCATE.COM
In assessing the year in LGBT rights, what is most striking to me is the
Obama administration’s unwillingness to engage on almost anything related
to relationship recognition. Time and again, the administration has had
opportunities to lean into the subject, to nudge the nation a little closer
to equality for same-sex couples, and it has repeatedly leaned back,
seemingly hoping the sub |
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