White House Launches Microsite to Focus on Obama's LGBT Progress

The White House has launched a microsite at WhiteHouse.gov dedicated to the President's accomplishments on LGBT issues.

White House Deputy Director of Public Engagement Brian Bond explained "Winning The Future: President Obama & the LGBT Community" via email:

As we kick off Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, the Office of Public Engagement has launched a new landing page Winning the Future: President Obama and LGBT Americans.  This webpage is designed to keep you updated on the President and his Administration steps have taken, and continue to take to benefit the LGBT community.

Please take a look at our Winning the Future for LGBT Americans factsheet and sign up for our e-mail updates that will keep you up to speed with what is going on in the Administration.  We encourage you to spread the word about this site to your friends, families, and the communities you work with.

The web launch comes one day after the President's third annual LGBT Pride Month Proclamation.

The fact sheet links to chievements by the Administration—such as pushing for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal—and LGBT-related policy items and resources, such as AIDS.gov and StopBullying.gov.

Comments

[Stevendrowe]

Thanks for posting this. This is certainly more than the previous administration have done, which is welcoming. However, results speak louder than words and I had expected more to have been achieved by now. I have received benefits as a result of Obama's change in policies but there are bigger fish to fry and I won't donate any more money to the Democrat Party until I see some further proposed changes come to fruition. The US is still 10-20 years behind some of its main allies and trading partners and I would expect, as a country who thinks they are a world leader, for them to be more pro-active.

[Brien]

@stevendrowe, it amazes me how much of a hardlined approach folks like you take when it comes to this Administration when the benefits far outweigh any of the previous administrations. It's almost as if you expect POTUS to be your pool boy, or housekeeper at your very beck n call. That sense of entitlement I find dumbfounding.

[Trey]

@Stevendrowe I actually understand some of your frustration, but the alternative is FAR worse. There is a proper time to be critical of the president, but right now; those of us who are in favor of a progressive country need to get behind President Obama and stop complaining about everything he didn't do during this term. We ALL know that if any of these republican clowns were there, nothing would have been mentioned about LGBT rights at all. So let's choose our battles wisely.

Also keep in mind that the president can't just do what he wants to do. He's got congress to deal with. Last time, he bad a bunch of democrats who were afraid to act of anything progressive for fear of not being reelected. Look at what happened to them anyway......