http://democrats.org/a/2006/02/a_year_of_progr.php

I like the concept of the Democratic Party improving its out-reach to minority groups and calling it a program for Majority Groups. When you add all the
minority groups together you get a majority.Also I'm glad to see we are up grading our political skills. We can re-name things to our advantage, just like the republicans.
I think it is a mistake to use terms like GLBT Community, or Black Community,
or Deaf Community when we really mean mutual support group. The practice just calls attention to the fact that most persons who are members of a minority group
are excluded from mainstream communities.

The Washington Blade

Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean has abolished the Democratic
Party's constituent outreach desks, including the post of director of lesbian
and gay outreach.

A DNC spokesperson said Dean replaced the outreach director positions with a new program called the American Majority Partnership, which integrates efforts to
address the concerns of minorities into all of the DNC's departments and
offices. The little noticed move took place last year.

"It's an expansion of what we had before," said Damien LaVera, the DNC
spokesperson assigned to discuss gay rights issues.

But the former chair of the DNC's Gay & Lesbian Americans Caucus doesn't see
it that way. Gay Democratic Party activist and fundraiser Jeff Soref of New York
City said he resigned from the DNC and from his position as chair of the gay
caucus in August largely because of Dean's decision to eliminate the gay
outreach desk.

"It took us many years to win that position, have it funded and make it
effective," Soref said.

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I think Dean is generally pro-gay, but this move does give me cause for concern. OK, perhaps this change doesn't affect LGBT access while Dean is chairman, but without that established desk, it may be all too easy for a future chair to ignore LGBT concerns and shut gays and lesbians out of party access.

The link you provided had this interesting tidbit:

"Assisting the successful challenge of anti-LGBT ballot initiatives and legislation in places like Maine and Oregon, and fighting Governor Schwarzenegger's veto of California marriage equality bill."

If this is true, it would be the first time I have heard of the DNC taking a stand on marriage equality. Until it is willing to do so (at the very least opposing state constitutional amendments), it cannot achieve full credibility on LGBT issues.

And I do not think that the state of the DNC's relationship with the LGBT community is anywhere near as rosy as the picture painted in Dean's report.