The least you could do...

is spell her name correctly, Don.
Accuracy matters, especially if you're going to offer up your personal opinions on political, not sexual topics.

Shit like this—endless process, strenuous efforts to ensure that every voice gets heard, consensus-driven everything—is what killed ACT-UP. This kind of shit attracts people who get off on this kind of shit (crazy people) and repels people who can't stand this kind of shit (sane people). I realize this video was posted to a conservative blog to make OWS look ridiculous—but it actually happened. And it's happening in NYC too. Gayle Collins wrote about the "assembly" problem in her column on Saturday:

“You get so many voices and so many opinions, it’s hard to find consensus,” said Ambrose Desmond, a 32-year-old psychotherapist from San Francisco who was the leader of the meeting. Or would have been if there were any leaders. Which there most definitely were not. The people sitting around with Desmond were studying a proposal for reorganizing the way that the various working groups—Donations, Finance, Outreach, Internet, Sanitation, Medical, Direct Action and many, many more—make their opinions felt in the evening assembly. The current system, it said, makes newcomers come away “exhausted by our model of direct democracy, rather than invigorated and inspired by it.”

Once the lunatics realize that you've adopted "a model of direct democracy" that requires you to listen to lunatics, the lunatics will come. Then the sane people—exhausted, not invigorated—leave. And then there's nothing but lunatics left.

How do you spell "overrated" ?
Either he doesn't read much, and thus doesn't know the name, or he just plain ... shit, let's be honest ... doesn't much care.

I vote for ... both.
Pretty much, this appears to be an undereducated gay man, got "married" adopted a son, and then makes himself a spokesman for non-monogamous marriage (criticizing the monogamous-by-choice and practicing Christians alike for being so ... straight) and then leads a campaign to pretty much criminalize childish bullying, all the while using dirty words and underhanded tactics himself to promote ... himself.

The problem with the uneducated sometimes isn't that they don't try. It's that ... they simply haven't worked hard enough, long enough to develop the discipline that would let them honestly compete against rule-playing others. So ... they mock the rules that others choose to operate under, and then cry foul when others don't want to let them play their games, in the already established leagues.

Cry Me a River.

Anyone who has ever participated in any organization over time knows the poison that just one individual, acting underhandedly and trying to disrupt the system, sows. That's why character counts.

No, it has nothing to do with his innate gayness. It simply has to do ... character. Maturity. Respect.

If you don't offer that up to others, as the ACT-UP crew never did, your "movement" tends to die out over time. With the recent bullying by Savage online, it seems that his "It Gets Better. Really. Trust ME." campaign is quickly running out of steam. He knows these tactics; he still plays 'em, online, himself.

The sooner the gay rights movement puts the character-deficient Dan Savage types behind them, to sink or swim in their own egotistical promotion but understanding he is but one individual and does not speak for all others, the sooner it gets better for all of us.

Simple point:
Nevermind the kids. They're simply bearing the backlash of a decidedly unequal, cowardly "fight" for gay rights in the liberal party. If we want to protect the kids, save lives: make a real change on the ground. Legally. Truth be told: gays are our second-class citizens today, legally, in so many states. But too many have traded in special gay privilege -- lookee, I can adopt a child and live non-monogamously, have it all, so to speak , crusade against child "bullying" while engaging as a grown man in those same tactics myself ... -- for a desire to actually work hard on the issues at hand, and work for equal citizen rights for all grownups across the land.

Schoolkids aren't stupid. They simply pick up on these facts of life.

But, if you do the hard work? If:
You get political leaders, voters, the much-maligned Christians to support equal treatment under the law? You get less bullying of marginalized kids. You give them something honest to look forward to, all of them. You don't, you won't. (The IGB campaign to me, always seemed like a basketball superstar saying to the kids coming up: Hey, you've got about a 1 in a million chance on hitting the special exception jackpot like me. See: look at my life. It Gets Better, indeed. And of course, I thrive as an individual in a country where only a fraction of you will indeed be granted legal equality under the law. And ... a non-monogamous marriage to publicize all over the NYT opinion pages too! Dare to dream, little children...)

Pushing for excess -- whether it was the ACT-UP crew tossing blood in the churches, or the self-appointed spokesman spewing forth opinions on the NYT op-ed pages, which I wonder now if he even regularly reads? -- that's for the selfish, Mr. Savage.

Which surely you are, but you ought to talk to a divorced Boomer career woman about the "I want it all!" attitude, and how it simply might be your undoing. Don't know what you got til it's gone, and all that...