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President Obama addresses 3,000 LGBT advocates

President Obama addressed the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s 25th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change via video message this afternoon. Attended by 3,000 LGBT rights advocates, the conference is being held in Atlanta this week.

Said Obama in the message:

“I’ve always said that the change we need in this country — real change — doesn’t come from Washington, it comes from folks like you. Change has always come from ordinary Americans who sit in or stand up or marched to demand it. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has been a partner at the forefront of that movement for 40 years. … With your help, we will continue the journey to perfect our union. The work will be hard, the road will be long, but I’m more confident than ever that we will reach a better future as long as Americans like you keep reaching for justice — and all of us keep marching together.”

I watch this and have to say – there are days I could barely dream of an American President being this supportive of equality for the LGBT community. I can barely express what this means to hear a message like this coming from our President. It’s just huge. Huge. And means so much to so many of us.

I can’t say “thank you” enough, Mr. President.

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Joe Manganiello on Season 6 of TRUE BLOOD

Uber-sexy Joe Manganiello recently spoke to Access Hollywood about the upcoming season of True Blood:

“My character’s taken over the wolf pack, so as an alpha, and a pack of dogs, you gotta regulate, you gotta set it straight with everybody so there’s some violence. It’ll be fun,” Joe told Access Hollywood.

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New Jersey: Mayor Cory Booker helps rescue freezing dog

Reporter Toni Yates of WABC-TV was reporting on a story in Newark, NJ when noticed a dog freezing outside in the brutal cold.  Hours later, she passed by and saw the dog again.  This time she took to the Twitter universe and the Mayor saying “Make pet owners get their dogs out of the cold.”

Soon, Mayor Cory Booker was on location taking matters into his own hands:

“This is brutal weather. This dog is shaking really bad and you just can’t leave your dogs out here on a day like this and go away and expect them to be OK,” the mayor told WABC.  “Hypothermia on any animal including a human animal will set in pretty quickly. So this is very sad. You can just feel the dog shaking pretty badly.”

Booker picked up the dog and put it into the back of a police car.

“If you’d crank up that heat, I’d appreciate it,” he told the police officer.

Booker, 43, called the dog’s owner and told them it was unacceptable to leave the dog outside in the freezing weather, WABC reported.

The owners said they were in Queens, N.Y., and did not know that Cha Cha had gotten outside. They said it was an accident and thanked the mayor for saving the dog, a new mother.

Mayor Cory Booker – not a mayor to hope others do the right thing.

Hero, here folks. Hero.

(source)

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Tony Perkins: Women can’t handle combat

“In another triumph of political correctness over common sense, the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat and direct combat units.

“Senior officials leaked the news yesterday during the House’s Benghazi hearings, making the timing even more suspect. If Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was hoping to distract the country from Hillary Clinton’s Libyan testimony, he succeeded.

“According to leaders, even Congress wasn’t warned. Much like the plan to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ the risks of this integration (physical stamina and injury, emotional stress, sexual assault, pregnancy, adultery, unit readiness, family breakdown) seem secondary to the administration’s liberal agenda.

“How much national security is our President willing to forgo to promote this kind of progressive feminism?” – Hate group leader Tony Perkins, via press release.

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Poland legislature says “no” to civil unions

The Polish parliament today narrowly rejected legislation that would grant some relationship rights to same-sex couples.

The lower house of parliament rejected three bills that would have legalized civil unions, including narrowly defeating one proposed by a member of the ruling Civic Platform that would have given limited rights to unmarried partners, including ability to inherit property.

The motion to prevent the Civic Platform bill from going to committees for further work was backed by 228 deputies, with 211 against.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk spoke out in favor of the reform, but 46 members of his own party, including Justice Minister Jaroslaw Gowin, sided with the conservative opposition and voted against all three bills on their first reading.

“You can’t question the existence of such people (living in homosexual partnerships) and you can’t argue against the people who decide to live in such way,” Tusk told the parliament before the votes.

Opponents to the legislation say that recognizing gay relationships “would do nothing” to address Poland’s dwindling population. And so, for that reason, even limited rights are denied.

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Wyoming: House committee to consider marriage equality

The National Center for Lesbian Rights sends us this press release:

Three bills—marriage equality, domestic partnership, and non-discrimination—have just been introduced, and the first committee votes are only days away.

At noon on Monday, January 28, the House Corporations Committee will hear testimony on the marriage equality and domestic partnership bills. If one or both pass committee, they will proceed to a vote by the entire House of Representatives a few days later.

On Wednesday, Jan 30, at 8 a.m., the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony on the non-discrimination bill.

The votes will be extremely close and we need you, your friends, and your family to help secure a historic victory.

Wyoming, I should note, is The Equality State.

Click here to contact your Wyoming legislators.