I know. The president is busy. Congress is busy. The media is busy. Democrats are busy. Republicans are busy. They are all busy paying attention to screaming, gun-touting, militant mobs of health-care reform protesters and their pastors who pray for the death of the President. The Democratic president and the outsized Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress are busy being scared every time the far right sneezes rather than getting it done and jamming it through.

Well, people in Washington may be busy counting beans, but the one minority in this country against whom discrimination is still legal and enshrined into some 30 state Constitutions, violence against whom is still celebrated and seen as some sort of masculine achievement - has borne more than its fair share of the the pain.