http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070808/ap_on_re_us/politics_gays;_ylt=Apl5vcXZTXVAH_5TTaRd7ZOs0NUEThe gay-rights movement reaches a milestone Thursday when its agenda is the subject of a televised Democratic presidential forum. Yet many activists — craving bolder support for same-sex couples — view the unprecedented event with mixed emotions.
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The forum, to be held in Los Angeles, is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights group that has become increasingly influential in Democratic politics, and by Logo, the gay-oriented cable channel that will provide a live telecast and Internet simulcast. Every Democratic candidate except Joe Biden and Chris Dodd plans to participate.
Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese will serve as a panelist, along with singer Melissa Etheridge and Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart.
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"Simply seeing the candidates step on a stage to speak to a national gay television audience may be as moving as anything they say," said Logo's president, Brian Graden.
Logo, available in about 27 million homes, offered to hold a second forum for Republican candidates, but the GOP front-runners — less supportive of gay-rights initiatives than the Democrats — showed no interest, said Logo general manager Lisa Sherman.
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Some conservative activists have denounced the upcoming forum.
"It's disgraceful that our nation's moral standards have now dipped so low that it's considered 'tolerant' to hold a debate organized entirely around the promotion of sexual immorality," said Matt Barber, cultural issues policy director for Concerned Women for America.
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why is a 'Matt' speaking for the Concerned Women for America?
hope this is on video somewhere
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