THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 April 28, 2010 • vol 25 no 30 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com GetEQUAL badgers Obama, Congress BY REX WOCKNER The LGBT community’s new activist pit bulls, TrueChild GetEQUAL, upped the pressure on President Ba- Bon rack Obama on April 19, 20 and 21 over his fail- Cookoff page 9 ure to keep major campaign promises to LGBT Americans. Although Obama has taken several smaller Leaders steps seen as favorable or helpful to LGBT Americans, he has yet to secure passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, or repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. GetEQUAL’s latest broadside started April 19 at a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in Los Angeles. Activists David John Fleck, Dan Fotou, Laura Kanter, Zoe Nicholson and Michelle Wright paid their way into the event and then repeatedly shouted at Obama about repealing DADT as he tried to address the gathering. “We are going to do that. Hey! Hold on a Shelby second! Hold on a second! We are going to do Lynne page 19 that!” Obama responded. “All right. Guys. Guys. All right. I agree. I agree. I agree. ... What the young man was talking about was we need to— page 8 we need to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which I agree with and which we have begun to do. But let me say this: When you’ve got an ally like Lambda Legal hosted its 17th Annual Bon Foster Civil Rights Celebration April 22 at the Chicago Barbara Boxer and you’ve got an ally like me who History Museum. Pictured are (from left) Executive Director Kevin Cathcart, Midwest Regional are standing for the same thing, then you don’t Director Jim Bennett and Tina Tchen, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, know exactly why you’ve got to holler, because who was the guest speaker. 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