Michael,

With all due respect, Frank is no longer deserving of respect. He defended Obama's DoJ DOMA brief (original.) Then he tells us to wait on our other issues. Who the hell is he to tell us to "wait." Especially when that wait is for nothing. Waiting for nothing is still = to, well........nothing. So in that regard Frank gets no respect from me. He is a traitor to the community that has supported him since his "coming out."

All I can say is that Frank, like ALL politicians, is a sell-out!

The National Equality March was important and deserves the respect it deserves. Barney Frank should support the march in that it was to expand the support for the LGBT rights movement. It's good that the Washington, D.C. City Council will pass a bill which would recognize the very important right of same-sex marriage. President Obama supports much of LGBT rights, but should definitely support same-sex marriage, because it's about equality.

Thanks for posting this Mike.

I couldn't agree more with the first point. As a young person, I spent high school and college under the Bush administration. During this time there was never an impression that LGBT people could influence politics and get a positive outcome. Were it not for moving to California and the mobilization around Prop 8, I would probably still feel powerless. 

We need to give our youth an understanding of the power each of them has and their responsibility to themselves to demand respect, demand equal treatment, and reshape the world.

Representative frank was indeed wrong to say that the march would be a waste of time although he has a point about local activism and about borrowing from other's successful playbooks...

What he should have done, in my opinion, is exhort us all to not only march, not only campagn localy but to also use every other tool at our disposal in our fight for equality.

US Representative Barney Frank needs to shut up.  He is were is he is today thanks to all the gay and lesbian Americans who have MARCHED, SUFFERED and DIED since the Stonewall riot.  Liberation from discrimination and intolerance and true equality take time, and unfortunately, Mr. Frank has grown rather impatient.

We should be thanking the powers that be, however, that President Obama was at one time a community organizer, because he certainly is multitasking like no other person could to resolve our numerous pressing domestic and international problems--many of which he inherited from George W. Bush.  We have among other things--an impaired economy, a sinking dollar, a sky-rocketing unemployment rate, health care reform around the corner, military engagement in two foreign countries…and I’m sure each of you who reads this could add a few other things to the list.  I think that it is commendable that Mr. Obama is doing as well as he is.  Let’s give the man a little credit here.  I mean, can you honestly imagine how slow Mr. Bush’s administration (or for that matter a McCain/Palin administration) would be at even acknowledging (let alone attempting to correct) these problems----and adressing all of this in his FIRST year of his FIRST term!!! 

We accept and tolerate blindly too many things under a republican administration, but as soon as a democrat gets into office, our expectations are unrealistic, our PROJECTED annoyance from the previous administration rears itself, we become terribly impatient, and then we judge UNFAIRLY a man who is genuinely trying to better the lives of all Americans, mend our fragmented nation, and better the world we live in.  This is NOT the second coming, and President Obama is NOT Jesus Christ.  He is simply a man doing the best he can in an imperfect situation.

I find it rather unusual that all of a sudden Mr. Frank has become quite boisterous with his venomous words directed at the National Equality March and at President Obama.  Where the hell was Mr. Frank the past 8 years when George W. Bush was in office?  The only person that I remember challenging Mr. Bush was US Representative Dennis Kucinich.  Mr. Kucinich seemed to be the ONLY person with enough CHUTZPAH to address the inequalities faced by gay and lesbian Americans, and he addressed the House in a move to impeach Mr. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.  And so now that we have an ally in the Oval Office, Mr. Frank decides to mount an attack!?  It would have been better for Mr. Frank to join the higher moral ground of Mr. Kucinich to fight against the true apathetic one---George W. Bush.

Look, I would have preferred securing equality a long time ago, but I also recognize that the US is in a serious state of metamorphosis.   Inducing delivery of an underdeveloped fetus would only cause that fetus to die upon delivery.  The egg has already been fertilized by the sperm.  I want to carry my equal rights to term.  I want a successful birth--- a new beginning, but most importantly, I want my equal rights to usher in a new era, one free from toxic waste, intolerance, and persecution.  I want to make certain that my rights will be protected and perpetuated all across the USA through permanent legislation including a federal amendment to the US Constitution.  History reminds us that this has been the odyssey of  women and African-Americans seeking the same equality, and each time history has chronicled and confirmed the success of these groups.  If we truly desire permanent and perpetual equality for our kind, we must pursue it in this manner, and we must follow through in increments, otherwise we will end up aborting our equal rights, or experience a miscarriage and have to begin the process yet again.