Thursday, August 09, 2007

The First Gay Rights Presidential Forum


Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson, and Mike Gravel will participate in the first Presidential LGBT Forum tonight.

If you are in LA, you can see it on teevee, otherwise, live streaming will be available at VisibleVote08.com beginning at 8pm central time. Also there will be 'watch parties' across the country.

On the questioning panel will be gay Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart, awesome musician/activist/lesbian Melissa Etheridge, and Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solomonese.

The two-hour forum will be moderated by Margaret Carlson, columnist and former girlfriend of Fred Thompson! Yuck! (And I used to respect this woman.)

But here's Rachel Maddow, and she has a few things to say about the first ever gay rights presidential forum.

Rachel Maddow's Campaign Asylum: The 'Don't Say GAY' Debates:

Also: Polls, polls, polls - just in time for our presidential forum....