In an email exchange with San Francisco activist Michael Petrelis, playwright Larry Kramer, and New York activists Andy Humm and Allen Roskoff, Bill Clinton's former LGBT adviser Richard Socarides claims he protested against the president's signing of 1996′s Defense of Marriage Act both privately and publicly: ``I urged Clinton not to sign DOMA at the time, both publicly and privately. I did everything I could to stop it. This is all part of the public record.''
Richard Socarides claims he publicly 'urged' Clinton not to sign DOMA.