President Obama, Just Follow Prime Minister Brown!

-Appointed a huge number of openly LGBT citizens to his administration including folks at Cabinet level such as Lord Peter Mandelson who is not only Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform but also is one of the Prime Minister's trusted confidantes.
-Proposition 8 is not an English problem but listen to this statement from the Prime Minister in Pink News: He roundly criticized Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California, as "unacceptable", adding that British LGBT campaigners had already shown how it is possible to "break new ground."
-The First Lady held a luncheon last October in the official 10 Downing Street Dining room on my last visit to England to create an exchange of ideas between the American movement for equality with the British LGBT community.
-Prime Minister and Mrs. Brown hosted the first ever LGBT reception at 10 Downing Street to celebrate the work of the LGBT community. Open community members, not only from the political community but also the arts, filled the halls of 10 Downing.
-At that reception, the Prime Minister talked of his incredible record in such a short time saying, "We have legislated on inheritance tax, we have legislated on homophobia in schools and we will keep taking legislative measures to protect you!"
-As a supporter of England's marriage equality laws, he simply says, "You cannot legislate love."
-On Holocaust Memorial Day in Great Britain, the Prime Minister honored the LGBT victims of the Holocaust!
-The Prime Minister was in the forefront of not sending back to Iran a young LGBT man who faced certain death if not granted refuge in Great Britain.