“We seek an America in which no one feels the pain of discrimination based on who you are or who you love, and I know that many in this room don’t believe that progress has come fast enough, and I understand that. It’s not for me to tell you to be patient anymore than it was for others to counsel patience to African-Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half century ago.
But I say this: We have made progress, and we will make more. And I want you to know that I expect and hope to be judged not by words, not by promises that I made, but by promises that my administration keeps … We’ve been in office six months now. I suspect that by the time this administration is over, I think you guys will have pretty good feelings about the Obama administration.
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President Obama, addressing the big pink elephant in the room on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Meanwhile, Salon has a piece on Obama’s direct courtship of 300 gay leaders, and WOW has an interaction between Michelle Obama and cranky SF homo Michael Petrelis in which she expresses her support for repealing DOMA.
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