The Times has a front page article about the "gay movement's" retrenchment in the face of the 11 ballot initiatives that were passed approving constitutional amendments to prohibit same-sex marriages.
"In the past week alone, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay and lesbian advocacy group, has accepted the resignation of its executive director, appointed its first non-gay board co-chairman and adopted a new, more moderate strategy, with less emphasis on legalizing same-sex marriages and more on strengthening personal relationships."
Unfortunately, the headline and lead paragraph allows the reader to walk away with the impression that the gay movement is the Human Rights Campaign Fund. The article goes on to quote opposing views from the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force who are going to keep on fighting the good fight for marriage. It's too bad they didn't talk to Evan Wolfson from Freedom to Marry, who makes the most compelling case I have heard for why glbt folks should be working towards this. It also makes no mention of the more progressive-identified folks in the gay movement who have been raising the question of why should marriage be the priority civil rights goal.
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