Six of the eight Democratic presidential candidates were put on the spot last night at the Human Rights Campaign/Logo Presidential Forum. (Live blogs on Rod 2.0, Advocate Insider, Huffington Post and Pam Spaulding.) The forum on gay and lesbian issues... ...

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson, and Mike Gravel debated LGBT issues tonight at the Human Rights Campaign/Logo cable network Thursday Night. Here's the reaction from the blogs: Pam Spaulding discusses the winners and losers, and... ...

By most accounts, Governor Bill Richardson did himself no favors be referring to homosexuality as a choice during last night’s LGBT presidential forum. He had multiple chances to correct himself, but seemed unaware that he had even made a mistake. Was he not able to hear the groans from the audience? Here is the clip from the forum followed by the statement that Richardson’s campaign issues to recover from the damage. Governor Bill Richardson’s Statement Clarifying Answer From HRC Forum For Immediate Release August 9, 2007 Contact: Pahl Shipley (505) 982-2291 LOS ANGELES, CA — New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson issued a statement ...

The internet is a buzz. On last night’s Democratic forum sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign and broadcast on LOGO, Melissa Etheridge asked New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson whether he thought people were born gay or if it was a choice. He answered, “It’s a choice.” She rephrased the question, thinking Richardson misunderstood her, but Richardson repeated that he thought it was a choice. He then followed that with a rambling monologue about not seeing people with labels, but none of it was convincing with his deer-in-the-headlights look. At one point he said, “I don’t like to answer questions like ...

The Democratic candidates for President made history last night by participating in the first-ever televised forum on LGBT issues. The event was hosted by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and carried by LOGO-TV. Candidates Sen. Hilary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. John Edwards, Gov. Bill Richardson, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Sen. Mike Gravel, ventured to the stage alone alone and for about 15 minutes, answered questions posed by rock singer Melissa Etheridge, journalista Margaret Carlson and Jonathan Capehart and HRC executive director, Joe Solomonese. The one question that dominated the event and lent insight into the disconnect between the Democratic front runners and ...

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson, and Mike Gravel will debate LGBT issues tonight at the Human Rights Campaign/Logo cable network. OutFront Minnesota is sponsoring a watching party at Pi Bar and Restaurant. I will be... ...

Today ("coincidentally" the date of the Logo/HRC Presidential Forum on LGBT issues) the Obama for America campaign released list of members on their long-awaited LGBT Leadership Council. (h/t Rod 2.0) The full list is in the LGBT section of the BarackObama.com websiteStampp Corbin, National LGBT Liaison, Obama for America; Former Human Rights Campaign Board Member;Terje Anderson, VT, Former Executive Director for the National Association of People with AIDSTom Barbera, NH, Board Member, Bay State Stonewall Democrats and Vice Chair, SEIU National Lavender CaucusParis Barclay, CA, Emmy Award Winning Producer and DirectorMichael Bauer, IL, Community ActivistTommy Bennett, IL, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The Advocate, the award-winning newsmagazine for the LGBT community, announced today that it has been selected as the official gay media pool outlet covering the live telecast of the Human Rights Campaign/MTV's Logo Channel Presidential Forum on LGBT Issues today at 6:00 p.m. PST. The Advocate and Gay.com are flagship brands of PlanetOut Inc. ( NASDAQ:LGBT) , the leading media and entertainment company exclusively focused on the gay and lesbian market. In addition to serving as the official gay media pool outlet via its Website Advocate.com, The Advocate will be ...

Tomorrow, Thursday August 9th at 9PM (ET), Logo (the gay network owned by Viacom) and the Human Rights Campaign are sponsoring a Democratic Presidential Debate titled The Visible Vote 08, centering on gay issues. The event will be televised live on Logo and streamed on their website; just a quick heads up if you want to stream on your Mac, you’ll need the Flip4mac Quicktime plugin. Barack, Hillary, John, Dennis and Bill will all be there, and Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese, Melissa Etheridge and journalist Jonathan Capehart will appear as ...

I normally don't post the many press releases I get in my in box, but this site is a great start for researching your 2008 canidates. Check it out, speak your mind, and for the love of all of us... VOTE!!!!!NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 7, 2007 – Logo, a division of Viacom Inc.’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks, today announced the launch of VisibleVote08.com. The newest addition to Logo’s federation of websites will be the premiere online destination for Logo’s coverage of the 2008 presidential election.Visitors to VisibleVote08.com will be able to watch live streaming coverage ...

America’s first queer-centric presidential debates are set to kick off on Thursday in California, offering voters a closer look at where the democratic presidential hopefuls stand on homo issues. By all accounts, the debates will go down as a historic moment. Never before in American history have gay people and their issues been given such an official platform. Whether there’s need for such a platform, well, remains open for debate. In a press release announcing the event, Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese, who will also be acting as one of the debate’s four moderators, wrote: These candidates have expressed a unified ...

On Aug. 9, presidential candidates will gather in Los Angeles for a forum on issues affecting the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the United States. Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese, Melissa Etheridge and esteemed Pulitzer Prize journalist Jonathan Capehart will appear as panelists at the event. ...

Ron Paul has a swarm of zealots on the Internet, spewing pro-Paul propaganda in all sorts of liberal and progressive forums. The Paul worshipers will accurately point out his opposition to the Iraq War and the Unpatriotic Act, but they conveniently omit the vast majority of Paul's views, which are hateful and wacky right-wing. The deception is starting to offend a lot of liberals, and I'm one of them. After all, if Paul could get a 75% rating in 2005 from the “Family Research Council,” a Christian Right hate-group, that should give you some idea of where Paul ...

Democratic presidential Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) announces he will not be attending the upcoming presidential forum sponsored by Logo and the Human Rights Campaign on August 9th in Los Angeles. Dodd’s press office says the Senator has to withdraw from... ...

Logo debuts Visible Vote 08, a microsite devoted to the upcoming Logo/Human Rights Campaign presidential forum on August 9th. Every day for the next week, the site will feature essays and blog posts on the upcoming election. One of the... ...

Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign, today published a short post on Bilerico.com. In it, Solmonese states, “Congress often moves slower than people want or expect, so it is understandable that some grow frustrated when the final results are not immediate.” While Solmonese is correct - The United States Congress does, indeed, move more slowly [...] ...

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be holding dueling fundraisers on August 9, the same night as the Human Rights Campaign and LOGO's Presidential Forum on LGBT Issues, aka the "Gay Debate". Obama's fundraiser will take place from 7:30 to 9:30 at Area on La Cienega, while Clinton has chosen gay hotspot The Abbey. The Abbey's event begins at 6 and the debate will be broadcast. Clinton will join the fundraiser after the debate finishes. One major difference in the two events is the price. Obama's is $250 a ticket while Clinton's is $50 for general admission and ...

Time to clean out the aggregator. --- ITEM: The Human Rights Campaign has, finally, announced that they will indeed have two journalists at their Democratic presidential debate joint press conference gala. One presumes the questions will be even spaced between sets by Melissa Etheridge. Previous post here. --- ITEM: More evidence that China's economic statistics are unreliable. Which is a polite way of saying that China's Communist dictators lie about how "great" their economy is. Just like the Soviet Union, which claimed year in and year out that it was outperforming the West. Previous post here. (Via Econbrowser.) --- ITEM: Another ...