The video from Monday’s East Room Stonewall Anniversary LGBT Reception:
My take on the event — both its ups and its downs — can be found here.
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‘Welcome to your White House.’
Published: June 30, 2009Posted in: Featured, LGBT, Politics
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political editor at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, The American Prospect, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found here, and you can follow him on Twitter.
I made you some empty promises so quit being so uppity.
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How about putting your money where your mouth is on whether these promises are empty? I’d be willing to invest $100 on the premise that at least one of these promises will be fulfilled by the end of Obama’s term. That is, if none of the following:
repeal of DOMA;
repeal of DADT;
enactment of ENDA (including trans);
enactment of expanded hate crimes law (including trans);
end of the HIV travel ban;
comes to pass before January 2012, I will pay you $100. If any one of them does come to pass before then, you pay me $100 (you are shorting my position). Whaddya say?
I’ll raise the odds. If ALL of them haven’t come to pass I’ll pay $100 per failed promise. (That’s a possible total of $500.) If they have all been passed, you’ll pay me $100.