Hundreds turn out for LGBT ‘Out & Ready for Hillary’ fundraiser

[William769]

More than 300 people packed the D.C. gay nightclub Town Danceboutique Wednesday night for the first LGBT fundraiser and rally organized by Ready for Hillary, the independent committee formed last year to urge Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016.

Organizers said the large turnout was in keeping with the outpouring of support the Ready for Hillary organization is receiving from the LGBT community across the nation.

Guest speakers at the event included Michelle Clunie, actress and star of the television series “Queer as Folk,” and Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, the lesbian couple that became plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage.

“I really like Hillary,” Clunie told the Blade. “I met her. I trust her. I believe in her. She’s always the smartest person in the room. I think she’s over qualified for the job and I think she’ll make one of the best presidents ever.”

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/01/16/hundreds-turn-lgbt-ready-hillary-fundraiser/

[DURHAM D]

1. Coundown 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

for someone to show up and tell us gay folk that Bill signed DADT & DOMA.

[William769]

2. Not to worry, I'm ready for them.

[DURHAM D]

3. Water balloons?

[Walk away]

4. So I guess they think whatever their husband (or wife) thinks!

I feel sorry for people who can't grow, change their minds and think for themselves. But if that's how they experience life it doesn't follow that everyone else does.

[OKNancy]

6. I bet 90% of the people on DU changed their minds since the 1990s

I used to think civil unions were a fine alternative. But I read, I learned and I grew more enlightened.

Adrian Corday — 'You don't change peoples mind by the words you speak... you inspire change in their hearts by the life you live.'

[hrmjustin]

5. Great to hear it.

Go Hillary!