Clinton, Edwards and Obama agree to participate in historic debate on LGBT issues

[PageOneQ]

Source: PageOneQ

Three leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president will appear at a live, televised forum according to a statement released by the Human Rights Campaign. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and former Senator John Edwards have agreed to appear at the event focusing on lesbian and gay issues. The event will be broadcast on LOGO, a cable TV station owned by Viacom. The station is a division of MTV Networks.

The event is scheduled for August 9th at 9pm EST and will be broadcast live on television and via streaming video on line at LOGOonline. It will be hosted by co-panelists HRC president Joe Solmonese and musician Melissa Etheridge.

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[sandnsea]

1. There was an HRC forum in 2003

I know I saw clips of it, I thought it was televised. What's unique about this event?

[PageOneQ]

4. This will be televised live.

[sandnsea]

5. Oh, okay

I thought it was, oops. Will be interesting to watch.

[mikelgb]

2. ahem

Shouldn't a community of individuals who are marginalized by society include all the declared candidates?

as a member of said community I won't even bother to watch this pre-selected bs

[Ian David]

3. Like everything else on Logo, I'll watch for 3 hours waiting to see chicks making out & get NOTHING.

Besides, how "gay" can a network be that wouldn't air the gay-friendly commercials from United Church of Christ?

[David__77]

6. Seems more "campy" to me.

Don't they have some weird fashion reality show? I saw that at a friend's house, and read that the network was self-billed as "gay-friendly." I thought to myself, not EVERY gay man would appreciate that programming so much. But perhaps most, I suppose.

[David__77]

7. Nobody but Jesse Jackson would embrace gay rights 20 years ago.

How far we've come! Wow, I can't believe it's been 20 years since then almost, by the way. I was a politically-minded little kid at the time, hoping we'd have the first black president.

[WindRavenX]

8. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised with them instead of disappointed.

I hear waaay too many "I support gay rights EXCEPT for gay marriage/adoption" statements from even Dems...