Reply #1145: Yes, the LGBT purge during the campaign season was cynical.

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And I do miss many of the LGBT posters who were lost. I've found that those hostile to LGBT people on DU have a new tactic now, one that is harder to fight, this instance and uprecc'ing of threads that claim Obama to have made some radical pro-gay move (usually completely inconsequential nothingness) in the middle of his continuation of antigay policies. These threads are usually followed by snarky OH I THOUGHT OBAMA WAS A HOMOPHOBE etc.

As if we don't know what our own rights are and who are allies are. I'm pretty sure that some of these people aren't "anti-gay" in the "I could care less if the homos get their marriage" kind of way. They are very gay-baiting and very insincere, and in the end, they're antagonistic to our well-being.