{"id":190569,"date":"2009-11-13T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/13\/the-boycott-is-getting-results\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:12:00","slug":"the-boycott-is-getting-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/13\/the-boycott-is-getting-results\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boycott is Getting Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following repeated actions by Barack Obama and his administration to do absolutely nothing about gay rights, including a particularly illuminating exchange between DNC Treasurer and Andrew Tobias, which I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/obama-knifes-gays-again.html\">noted  here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears that some people concluded that enough was enough, and <span><span>John Aravosis<\/span><\/span> launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2009\/11\/dont-ask-dont-give.html\">donor boycott of the DNC<\/a>. (There is a particularly damning list of the bill of particulars at the link)<\/p>\n<p>So, after months of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">everyone<\/span>, including Barney Frank, saying that nothing could be done right now about Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell (DADT), because the plate was too full, we now treated to the spectacle of <a href=\"http:\/\/gay.americablog.com\/2009\/11\/pressure-works-barney-frank-now-says.html\">that same Barney Frank saying that DADT will be repealed in next year&#8217;s defense authorization bill<\/a>.  (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_11\/020932.php\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Amazing that.<\/p>\n<p>I think that if people are interested in gay civil rights, it needs to be understood that while Barack Obama and his administration <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">may<\/span> not be homophobic, they are hostile to the expenditure of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">any<\/span> political capital on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, while they may not <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">hate<\/span> gays, they find the LGBT community <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">inconvenient<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the only way that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">anything<\/span> is going to get done is if the LGBT community makes doing nothing <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">even more<\/span> inconvenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following repeated actions by Barack Obama and his administration to do absolutely nothing about gay rights, including a particularly illuminating exchange between DNC Treasurer and Andrew Tobias, which I noted here. Well, it appears that some people concluded that enough was enough, and John Aravosis launched a donor boycott of the DNC. (There is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,971,998,1020,1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-legislation","category-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}