Gay Democrats Unhappy with Democratic Party

These comments posted on the DNC's website are notable. Clearly many gays who voted for Kerry, were not particularly happy with it.

If you want to know why the GLBT community did not come out in full force for [Kerry], you need to understand something. We, as a community, need a candidate who is for us. What does that mean? It means we need someone who will stand up and be counted and say that this discrimination is wrong, that we, the supposed greatest, freest nation in the world, now lag behind at least 10 other nations in the fight for equal rights for all its citizens. We need a candidate who is for us, not against us.

Another comments:

As a lifelong and very active Democrat, I was ashamed of our candidate's wishy-washy stance. He only garnered gay votes because they were anti-Bush votes.

Republicans can get some of these votes - if they decide to be the party of Arne Carlson and John McCain rather than the party of Alan Keyes, Alan Quist, Jerry Falwell and Michele Bachmann.