[기사] 랜디-HRC diners urged to ‘get the White House away from Bush’

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랜디 부분은 아래 붉은 글씨부분입니다.

아래 HRC 기사와 관련된 기사이고...

랜디가 민주당 후보인   케리 캠페인에서도 활동을 할 거라는것 같고..

QAF사진모음방에 HRC 관련 사진이 있길래.. 한번 올려 봅니다.

HRC diners urged to ‘get the White House away from Bush’

by Kaizaad Kotwal

Columbus--Corporate sponsorship for this year’s Human Rights Campaign Columbus dinner was up forty percent from last year, said Vasilios Birlidis, a member of the event’s steering committee.

The 21st annual dinner drew about 900 people to the Hyatt Regency Hotel on June 12.

HRC executive director Cheryl Jacque said that this event and this year are of particular importance “because we have to get the White House away from George Bush.”

“We need someone who won’t use the Constitution for political gain,” she said before the dinner began, “and George Bush is using the bully pulpit with the Federal Marriage Amendment” to discriminate against GLBT people and their families.

As for the Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, Jacques said that she was “thrilled.”

“Kerry has the strongest record on GLBT issues of any presidential candidate ever in the history of the United States,” she said.

Reeling off a list of examples, she said, “Kerry in the first six months as a senator introduced a gay equal rights bill in the mid 1980s. He testified as a decorated Vietnam veteran against ‘don’t ask don’t tell.’ He voted against DOMA in an election year.”

When asked if she was comfortable with Kerry’s stance on civil unions and his opposition to gay marriage, Jacques said that, “It is important to have a person who will have an open dialogue with us and I know he will. He understands our family and he has a good and open heart. We will have to educate him about gay marriage.”

“HRC is doing what everyone else in the country is right now,” she said of the recent eulogizing of Ronald Reagan, with little coverage of his record on AIDS. “We are respecting the office of the president, we are sympathizing with a family who has lost a loved one.”

“But, HRC will also be telling the country that Reagan’s record on AIDS was deadly and his silence deafening and that no American should ever forget that.”

“We have unfortunately returned to an administration that repeats the same mistakes and is not giving our youth the unvarnished truth,” Jacques said. As for the GLBT population, she urges them “to vote, vote, vote.”

In addition, “They should write checks, volunteer in this unprecedented election in terms of its importance to the GLBT community.”

During her address to the gathering at the dinner, Jacques reiterated many of those themes. Referring to Bush’s address to the nation a few months ago referring to gay marriage as a “national emergency,” Jacques said, “Shame on you Mr. President. Shame on you.”

Jacques added that gay citizens living in committed, loving relationships was “not a national emergency.”

Referring to a June 1 Sixth Citcuit court ruling that civil rights laws apply to transgender discrimination, Jacques thanked the plaintiff,  Salem firefighter Jimmie Smith, and his attorney Randi A. Barnabee for “their courage and leadership.” Both attended the dinner.

“The road ahead is fraught with peril but we have been here before as a nation,” she said. “And we have overcome before as a country. I believe with every bone in my body that America will fulfill her promise for equality. She always does in time. And now is our time.”

Julie Johnson, from Dallas, Texas, who is co-chairing HRC’s committee to defeat the Federal Marriage Amendment, also urged the crowd to “stretch” their pockets to help protect GLBT rights. She said that conservative groups had raised $120 million to help pass the FMA while HRC has raised roughly $25 million to help defeat it.

Lynn Bowman, a member of the HRC dinner’s steering committee said, “We have to defeat the FMA at all costs because it is not a gay rights issue but a human rights issue.”

Randy Harrison, who plays Justin on Showtime’s gay series Queer as Folk, was the special guest of the evening. He had come to address the gathering about the importance of family and community.

In an interview before the dinner, Harrison said that he was “here to support HRC” and liked returning to Ohio since he had done his theater schooling in Cincinnati.

Harrison said that he is going to do some work for the Kerry campaign now that he is on hiatus from shooting the show. He said he wasn’t thrilled that Kerry had not come out in support of gay marriage, but said that he understood “he was doing it in order to be competitive and win the election.

http://www.gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories04/04jun18.htm#story3

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쇼타임의 QAF의 저스틴으로 나오는 랜디 해리슨은 그날의 스페살 게스트였다. 그는 가족과 사회(=community)의 중요성에 대해서 애기했었다. 저녁식사전의 인터뷰에서 랜디는 “나는 HRC를 지지하기위해서왔습니다. 그리고 학교를 끝마쳤기 때문에 (cincinnati의 연극학교?) 오하이오로 돌아갔으면 좋겠습니다.”

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라고 말했다. 랜드는 지금 쇼를 찍는중이 아니기 때문에 케리캠패인을 도울것일아고 말했다. 케리는 게이결혼식을 지지하지 않기 때문에 랜디는 그렇게 케리에 대해서 열광하지 않는다고했다. 하지만 그는 케리를 이해한다고했다. “케리가 그렇게 하는 것은 경쟁에서 이기고 대선에서 당선돼기 위해 한것이다”

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대략,,랜디가 한말만,,,,해봤습니다...케리캠패인이라,,,케리를 유심히보면 랜디도 보일려나,,흐흐흐 ㅇ_ㅇ

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이전에 랜디가 하워드 딘을 지지했었나요? 우연히 그런 글을 본것같아서. 하워드 딘은 동성결혼에 호의적이였나요? 언제가의 인터뷰에서 "QAF가 정치적인 변화는 주지못했다(대략 그런...!!)" 고 했던 글이 생각 나고.. 동성(게이)관련 집회에는 참석 하는등. 정치적인 활동을 하는걸 보면. 민주당의 정치적 이슈도 궁금

[april]

하워드 딘의 입장이나 케리나 비슷할껄요? 결혼은 아니라도 civil union은 오케이 하는 입장인듯 싶네요,,(저도 이런건 아주 눈깜고 살아서,,--;; 그나마 랜디 기사 튀어나오니,,케리를 유심히 봐서,,) 어짜피 civil union을 오케이하면,,결혼을 한사람들이 가지게 돼는 법적인 것들을 다 가추니,,결혼까진 필요하지 않다

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이런식인듯 싶네요,,,케리도 비슷한입장이구요,,,뭐 따지고보면 둘다 게이커뮤니티에게 호의적인샘이죠,,,same-sex marriage 를 지지한다,,이럼,,,당연히 당선이 안돼니 --;; 당연히,,당선돼는 방법으로,,, 아마 제가 올해 선거를 하러간다면,,, 이건 다 랜디 탓이에요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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하워드 딘이 인터넷을 기반으로 활발한 활동을 펼쳤고, 대학생들에게 큰 지지를 얻었다는 점도 노무현대통령과 비슷하다고 많이 비교되었죠. 순식간에 급부상한것도 말이지요. 먼나라 일이지만 개인적으로 하워드 딘을 지지했었는데...쩝. 민주당에서 강력한 후보가 나와야 부시를 몰아낼텐데 왠지 케리는 그리 믿음이 가지

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않네요.. 그래도 민주당 필승하길 바랍니다. >-< 랜디도 팟팅! 좋아하는 랜디랑 정치적 이념이 같아서 기쁘네요! ^-^