Why DADT repeal gets more attention than ENDA

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/02/adam_bink_posed_some_interesting.php
Alex Blaze
2/18/10

Adam Bink posed some interesting questions yesterday about how DADT is taking attention away from ENDA, whether that's fair, and what it means for the LGBT movement. In 2009, Congress kept on kicking ENDA further and further down; now it's kicking DADT repeal further down the line. That's change we can believe in!

It's nothing new, though, that DADT gets more attention than ENDA even though the latter will help far more people. If we conservatively estimate the size of America's LGB population to be 5%, or 15 million people, then around .44% of LGB people is serving in the armed forces, according to the Williams Institute's most recent numbers. On the other hand, almost every LGB person will eventually have a job, plus ENDA helps transgender people, plus there are millions more people who experience job discrimination based on their sexuality or gender outside the military than within.