Bam to live up to his campaign promises to include LGBT people in his vision of change...

Obama now has even more pressure to live up to his campaign promises to include LGBT people in his vision of change and hope that propelled him to our nation's highest office. He can start by taking quick and decisive action on the priorities outlined in HRC's Blueprint for Positive Change. The LGBT community has worked and waited a long time to have a president who truly takes our concerns seriously - and acts on them. His poor choice of Rick Warren certainly stung - but hopefully the loud backlash will press upon Obama the need for him to expend some of that political capital we helped him accrue on our behalf as well. We need real policies put in place that will make LGBT lives better. It's been a long eight years. And that's real change that can't come soon enough.