LGBT activists missed the real gift in Obama's speech: the first African-American president equated their struggle with that of the civil rights activists of the 1960s.
It had the feel of a political campaign, when polar opposites find themselves occupying the same space, drawn by media who came for somebody else. The somebody was Obama.
At the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner, President Obama promised an end to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", his signature on a hate crimes bill and urged repeal of DOMA.
