Did you attend the Human Rights Campaign’s annual $250-a-plate dinner in Seattle in September? Reading this will wanna make ask for your money back.
You will notice that the website of the biggest gay rights group in the country has one single mention—it’s a blog about a celebrity, of course—of the massive protests that occurred for marriage equality across the country yesterday. (A letter from Joe Solmonese tells us to be nice.) You will also notice that a handful of young non-professionals were able to organize in a few days what HRC has been incapable of doing in months or years. You will know from brutal experience that in the two decades of serious struggle for marriage equality, the Human Rights Campaign has been mostly absent, and when present, often passive or reactive….
It’s time gay people realized that this group is often part of the problem, and rarely part of the solution. It needs to be swept clean of its deadwood, overhauled, or if it persists in its ways, defunded. When we are in a civil rights movement and the biggest organization is essentially a passive observer and excuse-maker, it’s time to demand better.
Go read the whole thing.
All you bitter queens, Dan you too should stop bitching and start volunteering (marching does not qualify). What you did years ago is much appreciated but does not count today.
All of you should be volunteering for ERW or some other GLBT Washington Non-profit. It’s easy to stand on the side line and point a finger and bitch. It’s something entirely different and MUCH HARDER to take the risks of getting involved. I’m sick and fucking tired of Gay-Americans spending energy tearing each other apart. Sometimes I think some of you are Moles for Focus on the Family trying to plant division.
@44 – that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen today. Thx
@15 – hear, hear for Lambda Legal!