Silence on LGBT issues does not signal a sea change [opinion]

[Shana A]

 Where's The Gays?
Silence on LGBT issues does not signal a sea change
Published On Sunday, February 24, 2008  11:58 PM
By ANDREW D. FINE

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522089

Conventional wisdom tells us that the absence of Will & Grace—or Will & Will—from this presidential election is a good sign for gays and lesbians. During the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, the Republican Party used gay and lesbian issues to stir up their base. They used the breakdown of the traditional family as a rallying point around which millions of voters were mobilized. Timothy P. McCarthy '93, a lecturer on History and Literature and Public Policy and a member of Barack Obama's National LGBT Leadership Task Force, put it best: "Republicans made Democrats look like the vessel for the homosexual agenda."