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GetEQUAL has just posted video of last week’s action.

Via press release: West Chester — Minutes ago, activists from GetEQUAL Ohio — a direct action LGBT civil rights group associated with the national organization GetEQUAL — entered Speaker Boehner’s West Chester office to demand the Speaker not use tax-payer money to defend Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). At this moment, five protesters are holding a sit-in, demanding to speak …

Tomorrow morning in Washington, DC, activists from GetEQUAL will picket the National Prayer Breakfast, where members of the infamously anti-gay and shadowy GOP congressional group The Family will gather with other politicians and lobbyists. The Family has been outed as supportive of Uganda’s gay death penalty bill. Details here.

I’ve been getting quite a few emails complaining that someone purporting to represent GetEQUAL has been spamming the JMG comments with requests for donations. Last night I’m grumbled about it on Facebook, after which GetEQUAL’s Robin McGehee immediately called to let me know that they are NOT behind these donation requests, which have been appearing across the LGBT blogosphere. As …

GetEQUAL Wow. After 17 years of living under the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, we’re one step closer to repealing the ban on open and honest service for lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans. Make no mistake — DADT is not yet repealed. There is still work to do. There is still a long process ahead, but we vow to …

GetEQUAL I have to be honest — I just vomited a little in my mouth. The Senate just voted on whether to bring the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) up for conversation. Not for passage — just for conversation. It failed. We all laid everything we could on the line for this bill — a piece of legislation that would …

Today’s summit with GOP leaders at the White House was primarily about extending the Bush tax cuts and the START treaty. And it was attended by GOP leaders of the House, which has already approved the repeal of DADT. GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was also there, but he’s one of the staunchest opponents of repealing DADT. So who, …

“Only two short days after being arrested for chaining myself to the White House fence and asking my President why he hasn’t fulfilled his promise of equality, I’ll pass through the same gate and by those familiar guard shacks today to meet with Brian Bond, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Engagement. I accepted Mr. Bond’s request for a …

Thirteen GetEQUAL activists are being arrested (at this writing) after handcuffing themselves to the White House fence this afternoon in protest of inaction on the repeal of DADT. Among the arrestees are JMG commenters Justin Elzie and Michael Bedwell. Via press release: “On the White House fence today, and in a jail cell this evening, are thirteen American patriots,” said …

Members of GetEQUAL, including Lt. Dan Choi, this morning staged a DADT repeal vigil at the grave site of Leonard Matlovich, the Vietnam vet who was the first gay man to fight for the right to serve in the U.S. military. The grave’s headstone, which does not bear Matlovich’s name, reads: “When I was in the military, they gave me …

Clip description: “Ceara Sturgis, Constance McMillen, and Will Phillips share a message with President Obama and Congress, asking them to display the courageousness that these youth have shown by producing the change they have promised.”

This afternoon GetEQUAL launched a protest of President Obama as he attended a Democratic fundraiser in Miami. Kerry Eleveld reports at the Advocate: A group of LGBT equality activists working to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” launched an elaborate protest early Monday evening as President Barack Obama attended a private Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fund-raiser in Miami, FL, at the …

Last week GetEQUAL issued a call to end all LGBT donations to both major parties. DNC Vice Chair Raymond Buckley wrote them back. Watch the clip.

Click over to Metro Weekly for Chris Geidner’s recapping of fifteen of the nation’s most well-known LGBT advocacy groups. Geidner’s article includes self-assessing quotes from many of the group’s leaders. What’s most interesting to me is that the three groups that seem to have most dominated the news in recent months (GOProud, Servicemembers United, and GetEqual) have the smallest budgets …

GetEQUAL has launched an internet campaign calling on its followers to “withhold time and money from political entities that are not fighting as hard for our equality as they are for our checkbooks.” We’re not the first ones to voice frustration with both Democrats and Republicans for holding our equality hostage (see here, here, and here). And we’re not going …

Today the Washington Post examines the two newest groups on the gay political scene. It’s been a big, loud gay year, and a pair of young gay rights groups on opposite ends of the political spectrum have tried to be heard above the noise in Washington: GOProud, from its basement office in Capitol Hill, and GetEQUAL, a nationwide, direct-action network …