Nine years after Clinton declared June LGBT pride month, Obama releases another proclamation regarding his commitment to LGBT issues:

My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic by both reducing the number of HIV infections and providing care and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS across the United States.

This is nice to hear, but we’re still waiting on something (anything) that’s more than a signed piece of paper. While the LGBT movement has no right to complain about the current lack of action without mobilizing nationally and creating a base, the string of successes at the state level (Nevada just recognized domestic partnerships by overriding the governor’s veto) should be a sign to the White House that opinions are shifting.

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