New Banner At HRC Headquarters

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Janet Porter Has The Sadz

"Forcing acceptance of homosexuality. If there’s one thing that President Obama made clear in his second inaugural address, it’s this. To a nation dealing with high unemployment and debts that threaten to crush everyone, he is committed to pushing the homosexual agenda forward and is declaring war against those who refuse to accept and affirm it. After putting homosexuals who battled a police raid on a homosexual bar in the same category as those who fought for civil and women’s rights, Obama said 'our battle is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.' Sounds nice, but like the pastor who was pushed out of praying at the inauguration for a sermon on homosexuality he gave twenty years ago, this agenda is really about silencing and criminalizing dissent." - Anti-gay activist Janet Porter, speaking on Christian radio.

AFA Host Buster Wilson: Stonewall Was A Hotel-Full Of Violent Homosexuals

Anderson Cooper: This Is Beyonce's World And We're Just Living In It

"Francis Scott Key would have sent her a fruit basket."

Mat Staver: Obama Is Immoral

"What we have is the President who is not the President of the United States, he is president of the divided states and he relishes in dividing the states among each other. He has this famous speech that he gave during a Democratic convention several years ago when he was a state senator and he talks about ‘there’s not red states and blue states but the United States of America,’ that’s not this President. This President runs to divide people, to divide and conquer and ultimately dismantle and deconstruct. He’s doing that with morality, he’s doing it with marriage, he’s trying to divide and conquer. Really, he is the most immoral president that we’ve ever had in history, pushing an immorality that is stunning." - Liberty Counsel president Mat Staver, speaking on national Christian radio.

FRC's Peter Sprigg Appears On CNN To Denounce Inauguration Speech

Why does CNN continue to host the man who publicly called for the imprisonment of LGBT Americans?  Via Mediaite:

Sprigg didn’t agree with the president linking the gay rights movement with civil rights for African Americans and women’s rights. “The irony is,” he contended, “homosexuals already have all the same civil rights as anyone else. But that fact that all people are created equal as individuals does not mean all sexual behavior is equal or that all personal relationships have an equal value to society at large.”

Many would say that’s wrong, O’Brien remarked before shifting the conversation more toward tone and political positioning. “I do think he was kind of laying down the gauntlet,” Sprigg argued. “Not really saying, ‘Let’s seek common ground, let’s find place where we can agree and compromise’ — but saying, ‘This is the agenda that I have, and I’m going to pursue it.’”

HomoQuotable - Frank Bruni

"Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall. The alliteration of that litany made it seem obvious and inevitable, a bit of poetry just there for the taking. Just waiting to happen. But it has waited a long time. And President Obama’s use of it in his speech on Monday — his grouping of those three places and moments in one grand and musical sentence — was bold and beautiful and something to hear. It spoke volumes about the progress that gay Americans have made over the four years between his first inauguration and this one, his second. It also spoke volumes about the progress that continues to elude us. [snip]

 "Despite our strides, gay and lesbian couples even now can marry only in nine states and the District of Columbia. The federal government doesn’t recognize those weddings, meaning that in terms of taxes, military benefits and matters of immigration, it treats gays and lesbians differently than it treats other Americans. It relegates us to an inferior class. The Supreme Court could soon change, or validate, that. There are relevant cases before it. For his part Obama could show less deference to states’ rights, be more insistent about what’s just and necessary coast-to-coast, and push for federal protections against employment discrimination when it comes to L.G.B.T. Americans. His actions over the next four years could fall wholly in line with Monday’s trailblazing words. My hope is real, and grateful, and patient." - Frank Bruni, writing for the New York Times.

Lesbian & Gay Band Association Performs In Second Inauguration Parade

JMG reader Damien writes:

I had the honor to play in the LGBA (Lesbian Gay Band Association) Band in the Inaugural Parade tonight. It was an amazing experience and I felt proud to help represent my brothers and sisters. We had 215 members from 26 different states, and as many local gay community bands. In 2009 we were the first openly gay group to march in the Inaugural parade, and we were so excited to come back for another performance. The first piece of which you only hear the end is Tonight from West Side Story. The second piece is The Edge of Glory by Lady Gaga, which was arranged especially for this performance.

Jennifer Hudson Serenades The Obamas

Slight quibble: It bugged me all day that announcers kept referring to the "inaug-a-rayshun." I heard it from Anderson Cooper and here, from Ed Shultz.

MORE HISTORY: Out Gay Military Members Attend Obama's Inauguration Ball

In yet another moment in our movement's history, tonight openly gay members of the military attended the Commander In Chief Inaugural Ball with their partners. In the center of the above photo is Army Gen. Tammy Smith, who last summer became the first out soldier to achieve that rank. To the general's right is her wife, Tracey Hepner. Photo by JMG reader Josh Seefried.

Breitbart Headline Of The Day

Unsurprising.

Divas Perform At Inauguration

Brian Brown: President Obama Is Robbing The Nation Of Its God-Given Dignity

"It is fitting that President Obama today takes the oath of office on two bibles — one belonging to Abraham Lincoln, and the other to Dr. King. But as I reflect on the America we live in today and the society we are building for my eight children, I can't help but be concerned. Too many of our people live in poverty. They are impoverished not only by unemployment and the throes of a struggling economy, but by cultural forces that rob people of their inherent, God-given dignity, and entice them through false prophets and by false promises, often peddled in the guise of providing pleasure but that ultimately bring nothing but sadness and even despair. Last November during the same election that sent President Obama to a second term, three states allowed marriage to be redefined with the president's misguided encouragement. If this is the path we're on, and it's not a good one. The President bears considerable responsibility for this as a result of his abandonment of the eternal truth of the uniqueness of the marriage relationship." - Hate group leader and Vatican stooge Brian Brown.

LGBT Groups Praise President Obama's Inaugural Call For Full Equality

Freedom To Marry

In his second Inaugural today, President Obama traced the moral arc from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall, and rightly exalted the struggle for the freedom to marry as part of America's moral commitment to equality, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Freedom to Marry applauds our president and the moral leadership he has shown, the moral leadership we will continue to need until all Americans, all loving couples, all families, can share fully in the American promise we celebrate on Inauguration Day.

National Gay & LesbianTask Force

We couldn’t agree more. It’s now time for the president — and for all of us — to finish the job of ensuring that every American gets a fair shake. President Obama has repeatedly shown he is willing to fight for us. We have another four years to keep the momentum going, and will be vigilant in pursuing policies to ensure our community is not left behind. This includes pushing for federal LGBT employment protections, ending the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, combating HIV/ADS, preserving a social safety net, and much more. America deserves nothing less than a president who will treat all families fairly. We congratulate President Obama and his administration and look forward to working with them in this second term to build a stronger future for LGBT people and opportunity for all.

Outserve-SLDN

Today, President Obama made history with a clear and passionate declaration of the fundamental rights of LGBT Americans, and all Americans. We honor the work of his first term - especially his leadership in the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - and expect great progress over the next four years on the very real inequalities that exist for our LGBT service members, veterans, and their families as we work together to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice.

Richard Blanco Reads Inaugural Poem

President Obama's Inauguration Speech

Never before has a president mentioned us in an inauguration speech.

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

As the president spoke, my mother sent me a one-word email: "STONEWALL!"

Tweets Of The Day

LIVE VIDEO: Inauguration Day

From the official White House channel.

Tap Tap Tap

Who's working today? Are you watching the festivities?

Homocon Tweet Of The Day

UPDATE: Damn me and my verbatim quoting!

Guess what's playing tonight at the Castro Theater?