Gay and Transgender Vets, chain themselves to White House fence demanding repeal of “Don’t Ask…Don’t Tell”

Things are heating up at the White House as opponents of the long standing “Dont Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (inacted by former president Clinton) have grown tired of waiting for President Obama to make good on his promises to the GLBT community.

6 gay and transsexual veterans have decided to voice there opposition by chaining themselves to a White House fence.

I just hope their all wearing diapers or this thing could get real ugly….if you know what I mean.

WASHINGTON – Moments ago, Lt. Dan Choi along with five other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) discharged veterans — Capt. Jim Pietrangelo II, Petty Officer Larry Whitt, Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Cadet Mara Boyd, and Airman Victor Price — handcuffed themselves to the White House gates to demand that President Obama keep his promise to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell this year.  The vets are concerned about mounting signs that the President is wavering on his promise to push for repeal this year.

Today’s action comes one month after Choi and Pietrangelo were arrested for a similar DADT protest at the White House in which they handcuffed themselves to the gates for a period of an hour, while hundreds of protesters looked on.  The new LGBT activist group, GetEQUAL, coordinated both today’s action, and last month’s civil disobedience.

“We are handcuffing ourselves to the White House gates once again to demand that President Obama show leadership on repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’  If the President were serious about keeping his promise to repeal this year, he would put the repeal language in his Defense Authorization budget,” said Choi.  “The President gave us an order at the Human Rights Campaign dinner to keep pressure on him and we will continue to return to the White House, in larger numbers, until the President keeps his promise to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ this year.”

Amid growing signs that the White House is wavering on its commitment to repeal DADT this year, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) called on the President last month to publicly state his desire to repeal DADT this year.  President Obama has refused to respond, prompting Frank to say last week that he is “disappointed” and “frustrated” with the Obama administration’s silence on DADT. “At this point the President’s refusal to call for repeal this year is a problem,” Frank added, saying that the President’s silence is now costing us votes in the Congress.

Judge rules in favor of lesbian teen

Last night I watched “Bruno” for the 1st time and while Bruno is intended to be a comedy it really did an excellent job at helping to illustrate the homophobic climate that permeates America. In the video you are about to see below a high school students memories are tarnished forever because she is openly lesbian and wanted to take her female companion to the prom.

In stead of having the problem and allowing a lesbian student to take part the school canceled the prom for everyone. The good news is a federal judge ruled that the openly lesbian teens civil rights were violated and hopefully that will help to pave the way for some sort of settlement and more importantly help to ease the struggles for the GLBT students that will come after her.

Oklahoma transsexual woman steps up to bat for the GLBT community

Some people are born leaders and some people just get sick of putting up with the bullshit of other and decide its time to take a stance! Something tells me that Brittany is probably colored by both.

After hearing what a state representative had to say about the community that Brittany is a part of (GLBT) Brittany decided it was time to take her state representative to task.

Brittany wrote a scathing letter introducing herself to her state representative and while doing so assured the hate monger that her seat would be challenged in the next election by a gender variant woman .

Brittany Novotny sent a letter to Oklahoma state representative Sally Kern this week — she of the quotable statements “Gays are a bigger threat to the nation than terrorism or even Islam” and “We’re trying to teach 2-year-olds that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle.”

The letter was Novotny’s way of introducing herself, letting Kern know she plans to run against her in the upcoming election after several of Kern’s constituents encouraged Novotny to take on the challenge.

“In your nearly six years in the legislature, statements you’ve made and positions you’ve taken on issues have encouraged division instead of unity and pushed new business away from Oklahoma,” she wrote. “People are ready for a change.”

But Novotny is not just another outraged citizen. The 30-year-old practicing attorney is an alumna of the University of California Hastings College of the Law, a member of the national Democratic Party, and the first transgender person to chair the Young Democrats’ LGBT Caucus. After running her own law practice for four years, Novotny took a position with the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 916, where she handles cases for union members.

And she even handles her own Twitter account.

The Advocate: Did you anticipate that you would be running for office when you were younger?
Brittany Novotny: It was certainly something on my horizon — something that hoped I could do. I was involved with student government in college, and I decided it was a career that I at least hoped I could obtain.

Months before Kern was reelected in 2008 was the event that made her famous to a lot of people, when a video in which she called gays, among other things, more dangerous than terrorists was posted on the Internet. Why do you think she was reelected?
There’s a lot of factors as to why she won reelection in 2008. Most Oklahomans are good people, and they really didn’t agree with a lot of her comments. They may not be pro-gay rights, but they’re certainly not antigay homophobes by any sense of the imagination. But that being said, it requires a lot of time, effort, and money to run a campaign, and we haven’t had anyone with that kind of time or the kind of money that was needed to do the job here in house district 84. I don’t think people with vote against somebody just because of something they said. They need somebody that they will vote for.

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