We is moving up the food chain baby!

[MrFun]

So I was out bar hopping last night and just before I went down the escalator back to the metro on my way back home later, I grabbed the latest issue of the Washington Blade newspaper.

President-elect Barack Obama has named his first openly gay senior administration staffer - Nancy Sutley, a lesbian who will serve as head of White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Plus, Obama's team is considering additional openly gay officials. One is John Berry, who is being vetted for Secretary of Interior. And last week at least, Obama considered Mary Beth Maxwell as possibly serving as Labor Secretary.


Not only this, but for the inaugural event itself, The Lesbian & Gay Association will be the first gay contigent ever chosen to participate in a presidential inaugural parade. In 1993 and 1997 they had participated off to the sidelines for Clinton but with Obama's inaugural parade they will be much more visible.

[Japher]

Token gay in worthless post.

He just did it so he can make gay jokes

[Theben]

If he really wanted to make a statement, he'd appoint
Larry Craig.

[MrFun]

76 viewers and two posts - I can tell you guys are so excited about this.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Theben
If he really wanted to make a statement, he'd appoint
Larry Craig.

Secretary of Bathroom Security

[Elok]

Originally posted by MrFun
76 viewers and two posts - I can tell you guys are so excited about this.

Well, I was going to refrain from saying this, but now that you insist, it seems to me that these appointments are canaries in the White House coal mine. Obama knows that most of the people who'd like to put a bullet through his brain are even more outraged at the thought of being ordered around by them queers. If they get shot he knows he has to beef up security without getting killed himself. Simple.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by MrFun
76 viewers and two posts - I can tell you guys are so excited about this.

We are not interested in eating gay people. We prefer to keep beef, chicken, and the sort at the top of the food chain. k thx.

[Krill]

Post of the month...

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Elok


Well, I was going to refrain from saying this, but now that you insist, it seems to me that these appointments are canaries in the White House coal mine. Obama knows that most of the people who'd like to put a bullet through his brain are even more outraged at the thought of being ordered around by them queers. If they get shot he knows he has to beef up security without getting killed himself. Simple.

So what if the posts given are not as spectacular as say, Secretary of State? The fact that there will be at least one openly gay person serving in the administration at all, is a step forward.

[Theben]

Originally posted by MrFun
76 viewers and two posts - I can tell you guys are so excited about this.

We don't want to give the impression that we're excited by top positions being filled by gay people.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Who ****ing cares if they're gay or not? God, identity politics is so tiresome...

[David Floyd]

76 viewers and two posts - I can tell you guys are so excited about this.

This surprises you?

My vote? Let's legalize gay marriage with all the benefits any other married couple has. Then, let's everyone shut the **** up about being gay. The only point "you people" (sorry, couldn't resist) have is the marriage issue, and frankly, you're right. Let's solve that, and then just go back to being people.

Any objections?

[Thoth]

Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut
Who ****ing cares if they're gay or not? God, identity politics is so tiresome...

QFT

[Starchild]

Clearly they're just house gays, ordered about by their heterosexual master.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut
Who ****ing cares if they're gay or not? God, identity politics is so tiresome...

It's history in the making. Individuals of a minority group that faces discrimination in other areas of society are now being appointed to serve in administrative positions under the next president.

Just as it was history in the making when individuals of other minority groups reached significant milestones.


But you're right - people who oppose equal rights protection for gays and lesbians need to stop dividing people by sexual orientation and stop playing identity politics.