Comments on: Frumin, Bonds, Brown score highest GLAA ratings

By: brian

brian — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:10:30 +0000

Rick Rosendall wrote…
Why on earth was my URL to a politely worded policy brief removed? How gratuitously insulting, not to mention denying your readers ready access to further information relevant to the article.
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I wish the Blade would revisit their *no-URLs-in-comments* policy as well, Rick. There are many times when a source information link is tasteful, relevant to the story and helpfully informative to Blade readers. Yours was obviously an example of such.

Limiting URLs to a single link– and then strictly moderating (or booting) any comment posters who abuse that privilege with commercial spam or irrelevant content– should not pose a heavy time burden to the Blade and its moderators. It’s a policy change worth a tryout, anyway, IMHO.

By: Rick Rosendall

Rick Rosendall — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:19:37 +0000

Why on earth was my URL to a politely worded policy brief removed? How gratuitously insulting, not to mention denying your readers ready access to further information relevant to the article. Very strange.

By: SPGorman

SPGorman — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:55:53 +0000

Because since the passage of full equality in DC, every LGBT advocacy group can focus on the current issues facing the entire community. No need to specialize anymore.

How else did Fenty get so much support from the LGBT community? He wasn’t special since the council vote was overwhelmingly pro LGBT and voted nearly unanimous for same sex marriage. Sure he was the hottie and he showed up sufficiently to stay eye candy but its a stretch to say that the LGBT community had a direct interest in schools since so few have children. Nevertheless, that’s what he ran on and it was a big topic among the parentless zip codes of Dupont and Logan Circles. So why close up shop and go home?

By: Rick Rosendall

Rick Rosendall — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:03:53 +0000

To Robert Turner: We in GLAA never said that ABC licensing reform is our “primary issue.” But yes, it is one of a wide variety of issues on which we have advocated. If you are really interested in our reasons (rather than saying that rhetorically to give the impression that we are blatantly out of line with no further thought being necessary) you can read the relevant passage in our policy brief, “Agenda: 2013″ (which takes up just one of our 23 pages): [URL REMOVED]

By: Robert Turner

Robert Turner — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:58:09 +0000

Please tell me how a candidate’s position on ad hoc protest groups is primary issue for a non-partisan LGBT advocacy group.