Writing for his column on 365gay[dot]com, Wayne State University professor, John Corvino, PhD, wrote a fantastic piece reflecting on the victories and setbacks of late week's votes on gay rights legislations across the country. Excerpt below.

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Via The Advocate, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has stated that the White House and the Democratic leadership in the Congress plans to include in the annual Department of Defense authorization bill the provision to repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Rep. Frank goes so far as to suggest that including the provision within the annual bill was the administrations intention from the start.

When the White House was asked to confirm or deny Rep. Frank's statement the spokesman for the White House simply re-stated President Obama's commitment to work with the Congress to repeal the policy. Which it can be argued was the politically astute thing to do, as the administration risked being attacked by social-conservatives for trying to inject policy into budgetary matters early before the bill had even hit the floor in an effort to scare moderate Democrats from voting for the re-authorization with the amendment included.

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Tired of hearing from White House officials and other Democratic leaders in Washington that gays and lesbians need to wait longer for the administration and the congress to address further action on repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and Don't Ask, Don't Tell several gay rights activists have made a call on gay Democrats to officially start boycotting the Democratic Party until the president and the Congress tackles the issue seriously.

The donor boycott, "Don't Ask, Don't Give", was founded by the AMERICAblog founders, Joe Sudbay and John Aravois, and has gathered the endorsement of many influential in the gay community, including Daily Kos, Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake, Dan Savage, Michelangelo Signorile, David Mixner, Andy Towle and Michael Goff of Towle Road, Paul Sousa (Founder of Equal Rep in Boston), Pam Spaulding, Robin Tyler (ED of the Equality Campaign, Inc.), Bil Browning for the Bilerico Project, and many others.

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