ENDA Blogswarm recap

The Bilerico Project recaps yesterday's Blogswarm in which dozens of national and local bloggers encouraged readers to contact Nancy Pelosi about ENDA and resulted in hundreds of calls being placed before phone lines were shut down.

Blogswarm: Contact Speaker Nancy Pelosi and demand that ENDA be put to a vote now

Today, Denver blogs MileHighGayGuy and Out Front Colorado (OFCB), along with the National Trangender & Transsexual Issue Examiner , are participating with other blogs around the country, including The Bilerico Project , Daily Kos , Open Left , Americablog, Pam’s House Blend, Towleroad, Joe My God, Michelangelo Signorile, David Mixner, Daily Gotham, Culture Kitchen, Taylor Marsh, PageOneQ, Dan Savage, GoodAsYou, and many others in a blogswarm to ask readers to contact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) and ask that she move the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA – HR 3017) to a floor vote.

Colorado currently has employment non-discrimination protections in place that cover both sexual orientation and gender identity. It’s time for the federal government to take its lead from our state.

Dr. Jillian Weiss, writing for The Bilerico Project says, “In 30 states across America, there is no law against firing someone based on his or her sexual orientation, and the same is true in 38 states for gender identity. Will you join with us in asking that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people be protected from job discrimination?”

Michelangelo Signorile says, “We have been promised a vote on the ENDA for almost year. It was first coming in the summer of 2009, then put off until the fall, then put off until January 2010, then February, then March. And here we are, with no vote in sight.

“The Democrats may lose the House this fall. If that is the case we will not see workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people perhaps for years to come. The votes are there in the House and they can be there in the Senate if Democrats and the White House take leadership.”

Call Speaker Nancy Pelosi at 202-225-4965 and ask that ENDA, HR 3017, move to a vote. Let’s swarm Pelosi’s office with phone calls and let her know that what works in Colorado will work for the entire country.