Here are a few YouTubes of Obama's public, proud and often risky defenses of gay and lesbian equality - in front of non-gay audiences and not prompted by questions. - AS
Forgive me if I spit up my coffee.
Are there any outrageous looking 70s photos that might scare hispanic voters that we should know about, before we go to the general? I don't care .. just get them out there, now, not later: keep it real.Why the expedient dodge behind Melissa Etheridge? None of the Clinton promises were anything that AS wanted anyway, including hate-crimes law expansion, since they were all part of leftist high-kicking, right? How disingenuous to use her words, to associate with them, in support of Obama (do the means justify those ends?).
In the world bigger than ... viewpoint, Obama has been making concerted strides, which is a consistency worth mention, even if the remarks are cursory. Hillary's have been fine too, albeit somewhat more episodic (see below), more framed. In 1992, when Bill took up the rhetoric, ... well, it was a lot more risky back then, n'est pas, both in terms of the times and what we now see as the pushback.
"Victimology" is a notion that AS has probably carried way too far, academically too far, professional too far. Although tidy in theory, why do so many people choose NOT to live their life on the canvas that AS paints? Some people do not want to be invisibly black or invisibly gay or dismissive of oppression as always aberrant and always 'in the past'. They are not all toxic or simply deluded. Nor is their attitude particularly leftist, although that is where many make a home (rather than enter into a "self-defeating" association with the GOP's principles).
Same with "self-empowerment". People want a fair shake, or they shake 'the system' itself.
