President Obama isn’t giving gay rights activists any of the major legislation they want so far. But he is giving them some face time at the White House this afternoon. The administration invited 250 leaders of the gay community to a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the gay rights movement — the protests that followed a police raid of the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York. But despite campaign promises that activists saw as pledges of quick action, Obama has put on the back burner bills to rescind the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prevents homosexuals from serving openly in the military and to overturn the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage as between men and women and allows states to ignore gay marriages performed in other states.

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