First, I want to say thank you to Chairman Barney Frank (how sweet it is to say that) and to Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin.
(My coverage of the LGBT caucus from yesterday -- Pam)
It was a real zoo out yesterday at the Denver Convention Center this afternoon, the venue for the LGBT caucus.
Just a short clip I managed to grab of Nancy Pelosi's speech Monday night at the DNCC. While I had quite a bit of the speech, it truly wasn't that interesting.
While we're worried about whether we're called by name or not on the Democratic Platform, the Republicans have their draft out and they're calling for FMA.
The LGBT delegate lunch has become the hot ticket for queers attending the Democratic convention here in Denver.
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Nathan Johnson, 32, and 28-year-old Tharin Gartrell.
Good lord, look at these domestic terrorists.
Best part of yesterday's LGBT caucus? Finally meeting Pam Spaulding.
Reports from Clinton delegates suggest that tomorrow at the Clinton Delegate lunch and reception, Sen.
Editors' note: Jim Rosapepe was US Ambassador to Romania, 1998-2001.
Barack Obama's selection of Senator Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running mate understandably is being analyzed in excruciating detail for its political impacts: Will it unite the Democratic Party? Will he help the ticket in the election? Will his prior disagreements with Senator Obama, for example, on the war in Iraq , help or hurt Obama's campaign?
These are all important questions.
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The Kentucky arm of Teen Challenge, a faith-based rehab program aimed at adolescents, has "given up" its $50,000 federal grant.
Andrew Tobias, the Democratic Party treasurer and openly gay man, gave a speech last night at the DNCC.
As I watched the convention coverage it occurred to me that I have been watching Democratic Party conventions with interest since 1964.
Dolphin Democrats President Justin Flippen, one of Florida's openly gay delegates to the Democratic National Convention, talks about the issues on CNN.
"The first thing should be the nondiscrimination bill. Human rights is the basis of all of this, and the most discriminatory things that should be gotten rid of at once are the things that allow people to assume that gay people somehow don't have full and equal rights as everybody else.
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I ran into Michelangelo Signorile at the NGLTF cocktail reception Sunday night.