Gay marriage, Voting Rights and pressure groups

Briefly, as a follow-on to my previous post about the recent decisions in the Supreme Court, and after the success of the LGBT movement in getting the Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage, there are signs that the movement as a whole is going to focus on overturning the recent decision to nullify part of the Voting Rights Act.

An interesting article here from Rolling Stone Magazine.

Useful pressure group examples might be those mentioned in the article, the snappily-named "Queers for Economic Justice", and "Queer the vote", both of which in various ways are moving on from simply being focused on LGBT issues.

The latter, for example highlights the fact that the community they represent could be significant in an election:

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) vote is sizable and bipartisan, and can be a swing vote in a close election.