Gay Community Disappointed With Obama

In a Baltimore publication known as OUTloud,  Dan Ewald discusses the lack of political representation of the gay community by President Barack Obama, who was heavily endorsed by the lgbt community. The article states that although President Obama clarified his opposition on the issue, he did express his ideal of the matter being left to the power of the state.
The motivation of the article was the recent Maine repealed gay marriage (banned actually) and lack of Human Rights help. Ewald says their involvement "Makes you wonder [what] all that donated money is going towards".

Ewald stresses that voter-approved discrimination, as seen in Maine's repeal, will continue to occur if the lgbt community continues to support national politicians instead of the local groups in your community.
From a personal perspective, it clearly makes more sense to support local groups and advocates rather than big-name, infamous, all-talk-no-play politicians; even if they are open lgbt advocates.
The goal of the community is to destroy hate, and achieve equality, and just recognition as honorable and contributing citizens. Thats not possible when the community is expecting big-time politicians, or the HRC for that matter, to have heavy influence on a local level when they know nothing about your community.
If you want to contribute to the movement, find out what going on in your community, and invest your time and support in those groups, not the organizations or individuals who are uninformed and unaware.