John Aravosis of AMERICAblog asks a pointed question:
Bill Clinton had gay friends. Bill Clinton had gays working in senior jobs at the White House. Who are Barack Obama’s gays? Who works at a senior level in the White House who is openly gay? Let me repeat: a senior level. Does President Obama have close gay friends? Why don’t we ever hear about them? There are no openly gay people in Obama’s cabinet. And the head of OPM really doesn’t count – it’s a nice job, but it’s not cabinet level, and not anywhere near the importance of State, Defense, Commerce or pretty much any other cabinet post. There are a lot of reasons that the Obama administration’s relations with the gay community remain strained, and one of them, I suspect, is that no one in the upper echelons of this administration is openly gay. Imagine if the same had been said of women, Latinos, or blacks in the administration.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 1:15 am
Wow, I didn’t know this. Still beats the heck out of the Republican administration, though.
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