Brown’s critics have accused him of taking part in a concerted pattern of failure to support LGBT rights, while “It Gets Better” founder Dan Savage noted that “not a single GOP elected official can bring himself or herself to make a video, or participate in the creation of one.”
All 10 U.S.House representatives from Massachusetts participated in the video released Wednesday, as did U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Brown’s office said he declined an invitation to take part.
“Sen. Brown’s absence in our congressional delegation’s video sends a message that he supports kids being bullied or harassed,” said state Rep. Carl Sciortino (D-Medford), in a press call on Thursday.
“Now, I don’t think that’s the message that Sen. Brown wants to send. I’m asking him, as a Senator for the Commonwealth, to stand up and show some leadership on behalf of his LGBT constituents, our young people that are facing violence in our schools, our young people that are being bullied in our schools.”
Sciortino noted that in 2006, when Brown was still a Massachusetts state senator, he was the only member of that body voting to uphold then-Governor Mitt Romney’s veto of a Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth.
Brown’s office on Wednesday argued that the Senator has a “strong record” on bullying and said his “main focus right now is on creating jobs and getting our economy back on track.”
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