Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 12, 2009.
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.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 10, 2009.
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.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. October 10, 2009.
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.