Tag Archives: White House

This happened during at a White House state dinner last month but we’re just now hearing about it. “Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for all that you’re doing for marriage equality in Great Britain,” the guest said to Cameron, who was standing to Obama’s right, literally and figuratively. With a gesture towards the president, Cameron replied, “It takes a conservative …

Dan Choi has dismissed his lawyers and says he may represent himself in the case which he hopes will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Choi was arrested in late 2010 for handcuffing himself to the White House fence, an action he says is protected by the First Amendment. Lou Chibarro reports at Washington Blade: “I think for activists, …

The White House has launched a new Facebook page titled “I Like Obamacare.” The move is meant to take ownership of the name which was once meant to disparage the Affordable Care Act.

No specific comment on today’s ruling other than the standard line about Obama’s general opposition to efforts to deny rights to same-sex couples.

Via Chris Johnson at Washington Blade: The White House announced on Friday it plans to host a series of LGBT conferences throughout the country in early 2012 so the public can “hear directly” from the administration on efforts “to ensure health, well-being, security, justice, and equality for LGBT Americans.” In a statement, the White House identified the White House LGBT …

The press secretary says he has no idea. The “Chris” being referred to (but not shown) is Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson.

Ah, the old “to spend more time with my family” dodge. We’ll get the real story soon enough, I expect. Budget Director Jack Lew will step in.

President Obama today issued an unprecedented directive that federal agencies should work to promote and protect LGBT rights in foreign countries. The Human Rights Campaign reacts: The presidential memorandum is the first ever U.S. government strategy to deal with human rights abuses against LGBT people abroad. It directs all government agencies that engage in foreign affairs to promote LGBT human …

Today an openly gay man will be sworn in to lead the Washington DC office of the U.S. Marshal Service. From the White House’s official website: Michael A. Hughes has spent his entire law enforcement career with the United States Marshals Service. He began his tenure in 1991, and has held various posts within the Marshals Service, including a stint …

This is the nutter arrested for hitting the White House with several shots in what the Secret Service has characterized as an assassination attempt on the president. And like many of the dangerously psychotic, his delusions are drenched in religion.

The White House has joined the Vatican in expressing displeasure at Benetton’s wildly viral ad campaign. But unlike the Vatican, the White House is more concerned with copyright issues. The White House isn’t feeling very kissy toward Benetton, after the publicity-loving clothing company photo-shopped President Obama into an ad smooching Chinese leader Hu Jintao and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. “The …

The White House has formally responded to two petitions demanding that the federal government finally come clean about all those aliens they’re hiding at Area 51 or wherever. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race,” Phil Larson from the …

An estimated 25,000 protesters encircled the White House yesterday in protest of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline which would run from Alberta, Canada to Texas.

Yesterday President Obama honored Jance Langbehn, who several years ago was denied the right to visit the hospital bedside of her terminally ill partner. Langbehn’s story, which had touched the president, prompted (in part) his directive for hospitals to grant visitation rights to LGBT couples. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly: Lambda Legal brought a lawsuit against the hospital on …

In recognition of GLAAD’s anti-bullying Spirit Day, the White House purpled the backgrounds on its Twitter and Facebook pages.

Via Washington Post, a setback for Dan Choi’s at his trial for chaining himself to the White House fence. The chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington ruled Tuesday that a judge overseeing Dan Choi’s trial cannot take into account whether prosecutors were treating Choi’s November 2010 protest differently because its subject was “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Choi’s …

Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson in the pink.