UPDATED AGAIN: More drop out of DNC fundraiser over DOMA brief: VT's State Senate Pres., donor Bruce Bastian, NGLTF and now GLAD. Where's NBJC, GMHC?

UDPATED and bumped @ 9:44 AM: GLAD's Mary Bonauto isn't going next week.

Stonewall Democrats and Stampp Corbin, one of Obama's top LGBT supporters, dropped out yesterday today.
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UPDATED: Corey Johnson is out too.

UPDATED and bumped @ 12:49 PM: We just got word that Rea Carey from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has pulled out of the DNC fundraiser next week.
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Two more defections from the $1,000 a head DNC fundraiser. (That's seven people on the initial "superstar" list that the DNC was using to drum up more attendees, now gone.) And, both are significant.

As an aside, why is NGLTF still going? After HRC's Marty Rouse already pulled out - we're to believe that NGLTF is to the right of HRC? And GLAD? They're the plaintiffs in the DOMA lawsuit coming up next week - GLAD doesn't see a problem with paying $1000 (or more) to go to a fundraiser for the folks who just defended DOMA and invoked incest and pedophilia while doing it? And NBJC and GMHC - again, to the right of HRC's staff?

The president of the Vermont State Senate, who helped secure marriage equality and was supposed to be an honored guest, dropped out yesterday:

Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin has decided not to go to a large Democratic National Committee fundraiser next week to protest a U.S. Justice Department memo related to gay marriage.

"One thing I have learned dealing with marriage equality in Vermont is that we all have a responsibility to stand up for the civil rights of all Americans," Shumlin said Wednesday.

"This memo from the Justice Department is more Bush than Bush," he added. "It takes the only minority group left in America that nationalpoliticians can publicly discriminate against and still see their numbers go up in the polls and it reinforces the horrible stereotypes about our friends and neighbors."

More Bush than Bush. Couldn't agree more. (And, don't get why some gays are still actually defending that brief. It's beyond pathetic, but one way to get attention.)

Bruce Bastian, the gay philanthropist and major Democratic donor is also out according to Southern Voice:

Bruce Bastian, a gay businessman and prominent donor who lives in Utah and is on the list of special invitees, not only said he no longer plans to attend the fundraiser, but also that he no longer plans to donate to the Democratic Party as a whole.

"I will continue to support certain congressmen, congresswomen and senators whom I believe will continue to fight for our rights, but I don't think blanket donations to the Democratic Party right now are justified, at least not in my book," he said.

Bastian, a major donor to many LGBT groups, said he sent an e-mail to the DNC on Wednesday saying he wouldn't attend the event "because of the remarks on DOMA." He found the filing "very offensive."

"The administration has said they have to support the federal government's stance," he said. "But in the brief, they go way beyond where they need to go to just defend DOMA. They basically go to terminology and language that you would expect from the Bush administration, not the Obama administration."

Bastian said the brief was the "tipping point" for him in his perception for how the Democratic Party supports LGBT issues.

Here is who else who has signed on - I've crossed out the names of those who won't be attending - feel free to weigh in with the rest (Suze Orman?):

If you can't make the date, take a rain check and help anyway? SUZE ORMAN just signed on that way. ELIZABETH BIRCH signed on that way. Lots of others.

If you CAN make the date, you'll be joining the Vice President of the United States . . .

. . . along with Virginia Governor / DNC Chair Tim Kaine . . . immediate past DNC Chair Howard Dean . . . Chairman Barney Frank . . . Representatives Tammy Baldwin and Jared Polis . . . Vermont Senate President Pete Shumlin . . . District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty . . . David Mixner . . . Richard Socarides . . . The Task Force's Rea Carey . . . HRC's Marty Rouse . . . ESPA's Alan Van Capelle . . . GLAD's Mary Bonauto . . . NBJC's Alexander Robinson . . . GMHC's Marjorie Hill . . . The Victory Fund's Chuck Wolfe . . . Towle Road's Andy Towle . . . Iraq Marine vet Brian Fricke (whom you may have seen on 60 Minutes) . . . Billy Bean . . . Joan Garry . . . Keith Boykin . . . Ray Buckley . . . Brian Johnson . . . Corey Johnson . . . Dixon Osburn . . . Paul Smith . . . Bruce Bastian . . . Mitchell Gold . . . Krystal Ball . . . and so many others, like YOU, who have been pushing the ball down the field for so long. (Well, Krystal is fairly new to this, but what a kick to have a pro-marriage CPA triathlete young mom running to unseat a conservative Republican in Virginia.)

By next week, the DNC LGBT fundraiser is going to be end up being Joe Biden, Andy Tobias, a few Obama appointees, the staff of Barney, Tammy and Jared and those gay lobbyists who need to suck up to the Obama administration or want jobs. And, of course, the gays who have no self-respect and don't think we're worthy of full equality.

Oh yeah, and the Washington Blade will be there too, with cameras and video, recording every single gay turncoat who shows up. Perhaps someone should build a Web site where we can post all of their photos...