Unwilling to be left out in the cold

More than 200 people braved bone-chilling cold on an ice encrusted City Hall Plaza Jan. 10 to call on President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promises to the LGBT community to repeal DOMA and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and to pass a trans-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) when he takes office. The rally and march through Downtown Boston to Old West Church was one of a series of protests that took place that day across the country, sponsored by the grassroots LGBT advocacy group Join the Impact. Among speakers who addressed the crowd were Congressman Barney Frank, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Gunner Scott of the Mass. Transgender Political Coalition, out lesbian Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons and Janson Wu, a staff attorney with Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD).