UPDATE below fold

The paper tells us today that Obama has sent the DADT question away for study.  Because you know, no one has ever studied it before. / eye roll /

This led me to thinking – has Obama used his power of executive order to send any positive signals to the LGBT community?  Please, if he has done one concrete thing that actually helps us (rather than giving the haters ammunition to block progress, as with the DADT study), let me know.

I suggest that he at least proclaim Valentines Day a national day of respect for all loving couples.  But I suspect we’re more likely to see him promise to, someday, if we’re good and if the normal people allow him, proclaim the day after Valentines day as National Love Crumbs Day for Teh Gayz.Orion45 provided a nice HRC list of pro-equality acts that Obama could accomplish by executive order or executive action.  The first one, the Federal Workplace Non-Discrimination Order, could be signed immediately.  It is completely non-controversial, since many pre-Bush presidents have already signed orders like it.  I suggest that Obama get on the ball and do at least this one action as a sign of good will in the first month of his presidency.