David Mixner at the National Equality March: If We Don't Hear Something New from Obama it Will Be a Disaster

Towleroad: In our first of several interviews from Washington, D.C. this National Equality March weekend, Towleroad's Corey Johnson talks to David Mixner, who was among the first to call for a national march, on expectations, the new generation of gay activists, and what people should expect from President Obama as he prepares to speak to the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner.

Says Mixner: "If we don't hear [something new from Obama] it will be a disaster both for the President and for HRC."

LSB: Here's the story to which Mixter was referring.

HRC Moves Goal Post for Obama and LGBT Rights to January 2017? Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese sent out a bizarre email blast last night, on the eve of National Equality March weekend, that seems to suggest that LGBT folks should cut Obama some slack till the end of his second term to pass judgment on the promises he has or hasn't carried out.

Folks around the blogosphere are scratching their heads.

Writes Solmonese:

But what has he [Obama] done?

I've written that we have actually covered a good deal of ground so far. But I'm not going to trot out those advances right now because I have something more relevant to say: It's not January 19, 2017.

That matters for two reasons: first, the accomplishments that we've seen thus far are not the Obama Administration's record. They are the Administration's record so far....

I am sure of this: on January 19, 2017, I will look back on the President's address to my community as an affirmation of his pledge to be our ally. I will remember it as the day when we all stood together and committed to finish what Senator Kennedy called our unfinished business. And I am sure of this: on January 19, 2017, I will also look back on many other victories that President Barack Obama made possible.