Fifty-two U.S. House members join to form first “LGBT Equality Caucus”



365Gay.com reports:

Fifty-two members of the House of Representatives have formed a bipartisan LGBT Equality Caucus to lobby for civil rights. All but two of the members are Democrats.

The caucus was announced Wednesday at a Capitol Hill news conference by the House’s only two openly gay members, Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Barney Frank (D-MA) . . . The report identifies the members. Republicans included are: Chris Shays (R-CT) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).



3 Comments

  1. Walter Ed Lewis
    Posted June 4, 2008 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    This is incidious. Besides Baldwin and Frank, Americans need to get the names of the other 50 heterosexual Congressmen and Congresswomen who dared to join this Congressional “Code Pink” squad and promptly vote them out of political existence.

    The American Prophet

  2. Steve Denbow
    Posted June 5, 2008 at 5:35 am | Permalink

    Here is a list of the current members of the new LGBT Equality Caucus if anyone would like to contact them:

    Reps. Rob Andrews (D-NJ), Xavier Becerra (D-CA) Lois Capps (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Mike Honda (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Hilda Solis (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Peter Welch (D-VT), Howard Berman (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Robert Brady (D-PA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Susan Davis (D-CA), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Phil Hare (D-IL), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Doris Matsui (D-CA), James Moran (D-VA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Steven Rothman (D-NJ), José Serrano (D-NY), Chris Shays (R-CT), Pete Stark (D-CA), Betty Sutton (D-OH), Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), Niki Tsongas (D-MA), Robert Wexler (D-FL), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).

  3. sassedbygov
    Posted June 6, 2008 at 5:30 am | Permalink

    Chris Shays (R-CT) was the only rep in the whole state who voted on immigration more in lines with the American people. But this wipes him off the slate as far as I’m concerned.
    If a few thousand LGBT’s end up running the lives of a few hundred million Christians, it will mean the Christians sat on their butts and did nothing while the lion pits were being dug. Shame on us!

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