“Obama invites gay rights advocates to White House”

Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports at The Caucus, the politics and government blog of the New York Times: “As advocates for gays and lesbians intensify their criticism of the White House, President Obama has invited some of their leaders to an East Room reception next Monday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, the 1969 Greenwich Village demonstrations that gave birth to the modern gay rights movement.”