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makes you think, doesn’t it?
A lot of white gay men are among some of the most openly and hostilely racist people I’ve met in my entire life.
Lookin dead at your ass Shirley Q Liquor and all the fuckin gay white men who be on that ‘sassy black woman’ bullshit.
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Trans inclusion will be a legislative priority over my dead body.
Elizabeth Birch, Human Rights Campaign Executive Director, 1995-2004
figured now would be a good time to remind everybody exactly who these people are and exactly how much they value trans people
(yes, I realize Birch is no longer with the organization, but this is not because they found her ideas repellant—it’s because she retired)
Hrc, trans inclusion
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O_O this is really fucking important to be aware of
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Why The Transgender Community Hates HRC
In conclusion, the drama between the transgender community and HRC (which sadly flared up last week after Rep. Frank introduced a non-inclusive ENDA) is a forty-year-old stew flavored with historical hatred, arrogance, political miscalculations, communication failures, misunderstandings, mistrust, and Machiavellian duplicity.
HRC also has a pathetic history of refusing to deal with trans people as equals not only in terms of civil rights legislation but even in hiring talented transgender people for their organization. This historical negativity keeps transpeople from working with HRC in any capacity. (Don’t even get me started about the African-American community beefs with HRC, that’s another post.)
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Human Rights Campaign: Largest LGBT Donors Are Drone Manufacturers
In the 1960s and 1970s, queer liberation (what we now call “LGBT equality”) was seen by its advocates as an all-inclusive movement intrinsically bound to other social justice movements: there could be no justice for queer people without justice for people of color, women, workers, those in other nations, etc. Accordingly, queer activists worked hard to build coalitions with all those determined to fight for justice.
Nowadays, the LGBT movement does more branding than coalition building.
Steven W. Thrasher, who has been nationally recognized for his LGBT journalism, called out national LGBT nonprofits and advocates, colloquially referred to by some as the glitter industrial complex, in a Gawker article, contending that the LGBT activists and nonprofits “have been bought, paid-for and sold to the highest bidder.”
It’s true: corporate America runs the LGBT movement, or at least the part of the LGBT movement that gets press time and donors. Their sponsorship keeps the LGBT movement from addressing the issues that matter most for the LGBT community and beyond.
Thrasher highlights that many of the biggest donors to the Human Rights Campaign, the multi-million dollar nonprofit that receives the bulk of donations for LGBT issues, are drone manufacturers. These donors profit off of the United States’ use of drones to kill civilians, including children, with little oversight or accountability. Drone manufacturers are far from the only ethically dark gray to black donors to LGBT advocacy organizations: a brief perusal of any major LGBT organization’s list of donors reveals that corporate black hats like Bank of America, BP, Coke, and Nike all provide major cash to LGBT nonprofits.
… Progress for queer people means nothing if it comes at the expense of others also marginalized and fighting for justice. Gay advocacy paid for by companies that poison the land, treat their workers unfairly, and assist in the killing of children from other nations is worthless in the long run. If we truly want a world where LGBT people are equal, we have to recognize that such equality is contingent upon justice for all people.
Not when health care is provided to every same-sex couple, but where health care is accessible to all; not when violent homophobia is eliminated, but when violence based on hatred of any group is eliminated. It might sound Utopian, and it might not be achieved through high profile fund raising dinners. But the alternative, inequality and corporate exploitation draped in a pride flag, is neither progressive nor equal.
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Treat Question Trick Answer: The Largest LGBT (ACTUALLY, JUST LG--it's HRC) Donors Are Drone Manufacturers
The Largest LGBT Donors Are Drone Manufacturers
In the 1960s and 1970s, queer liberation (what we now call “LGBT equality”) was seen by its advocates as an all-inclusive movement intrinsically bound to other social justice movements: there could be no justice for…
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Why the trans* community hates HRC.
REALLY important, read up if you don’t know about this already
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WATCH: HRC Has A Lot To Celebrate In 2012
BY SUNNIVIE BRYDUM
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organization, has a lot to be proud of this year, and the myriad steps toward progress are all documented in a new video.
HRC was involved in the marriage equality victories in Maryland, Maine, and Washington, as well as defeating a proposed constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage in Minnesota. For the first time in American history, a majority voters in all four locations voted in favor of equality.
The video also highlights a record number of out LGB elected officials, including the nation’s first out Senator, Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin. Of course, the video also highlights president Barack Obama’s endorsement of marriage equality, a statement that made him the first sitting U.S. President to support the freedom to marry.
Click the header link above to watch the official HRC video.
Project Queer: Unfortunately, these ‘victories’ really only affect a privileged few in the gay, lesbian, and multisexual communities. (More specifically, these issues affect the privileged white upper/middle class folks who donate to organisations like the HRC). Most of HRC’s focus is on marriage equality - when not everyone wants to get married. Another big focus of HRC is getting DADT repealed when not everyone believes in war - nor do they support it.
Whether you agree or disagree with marriage or fighting wars, there are more important issues at hand - issues that actually involve HUMAN RIGHTS for ALL like: workplace protections, hate crimes protections, healthcare rights, housing rights, and much more. As usual, very few of these victories directly affect transgender or gender non-conforming people. Why the HRC uses the acronym ‘LGBTQ’ is beyond me.
I refuse to support an organisation that encourages queer assimilation and binarism and leaving minorities behind in the process.
HRC Tries to Tie NOM to Donation from Alleged White Supremacist
Michael Peroutka speaks at the 2012 meeting of the League of the South. (Watch video)
The group that opposed marriage equality in Maryland is accused today of taking thousands of dollars from a donor “active in white supremacist, secessionist causes.”
The Maryland Marriage Alliance, which is backed by the National Organization for Marriage, was significantly out fundraised in its failed attempt to block a marriage equality law. And the Human Rights Campaign says records show the Alliance accepted $10,000 from Michael Peroutka, who it notes is a proud member of the League of the South.
The group has been called “explicitly racist” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which also labeled the League a “hate group.” Peroutka has denied he’s a white supremacist, according to the Baltimore Sun, but he has spoken during the League’s conferences in 2012, 2010, 2008 and 2004.
HRC called on the Alliance to return the $10,000, and it linked its accusation to a “racially divisive” pattern of behavior from NOM, its main backer.
“NOM is no stranger to exploiting race as a means of advancing its agenda,” HRC said in a statement, noting that the antigay group’s leaked strategy documents included a plan to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks.”
The Maryland marriage equality law is already beginning to take effect as same-sex couples could obtain marriage licenses today, and weddings can begin on January 1.
Project Queer Sidenote: Okay, so we already know that the NOM are a bunch of racist, religious right scumbags. But am I the only one who would not be surprised if the HRC took donations from racists/racist groups themselves?
I mean, considering the following:
- HRC’s past donation history
- how their HRC Buying Guide promotes companies that are both racist and xenophobic
- how all of their Presidents are privileged white men
- how people of colour have told me personal horror stories about working in HRC environments.
So… Is it really too far-fetched an idea?
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Brad Pitt donates $100,000 in support of marriage equality.
It’s unbelievable to me that people’s lives and relationships are literally being voted on in a matter of days.
In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, voters will go to the polls to decide if gay and lesbian couples – our friends and neighbors – are worthy of the same protections as everyone else.
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Brad Pitt donates $100,000 in support of marriage equality.
It’s unbelievable to me that people’s lives and relationships are literally being voted on in a matter of days.
In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, voters will go to the polls to decide if gay and lesbian couples – our friends and neighbors – are worthy of the same protections as everyone else.
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Tell Mitt Romney to fire his anti-LGBT National Finance Chair
From The Advocate:
The Human Rights Campaign and supporters are calling on Mitt Romney to fire his national finance chair, Frank VanderSloot, who has a record of antigay activities.
HRC launched an online action Thursday night, with a letter for individuals to sign and send to Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, and more than 15,000 people have already done so, officials with the group said.
VanderSloot, a wealthy Idaho businessman, has an antigay history that includes a billboard campaign condemning Idaho Public Television for showing the award-winning documentary It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School. The billboards claimed the film promoted “the homosexual lifestyle,” and according to a Salon profile by Glenn Greenwald, VanderSloot said of the documentary, “If this isn’t stopped, a lot of little kids will watch this program and create questions they’ve never had … little lives are going to be damaged permanently.”
Greenwald also reported that VanderSloot has often threatened journalists who write about him and outed a gay one, and that in 2008 his wife, Belinda, donated $100,000 in support of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that rescinded marriage equality in California.
HRC spokesman Fred Sainz said Romney’s relationship with VanderSloot “speaks volumes about how Mitt Romney truly feels about LGBT people.” He urged Romney to “immediately fire VanderSloot and return the money he’s donated to the campaign” and added that the candidate “can no longer get away with saying he opposes discrimination against LGBT Americans while simultaneously working with someone as viciously anti-LGBT as Frank VanderSloot.”From HRC’s letter:
“A horribly anti-gay bully like VanderSloot has no business on a presidential campaign especially at the helm of the Romney money machine.”
Click the link above or click here for HRC’s letter, and to send message.
Personal note: Yes, Romney has never been an LGBTQ ally, but still, at least for the consistency of what he says, i.e. he constantly denies that he supports discrimination against LGBTQ people and etc., but this man, is seriously dangerous.
HRC to Romney: Ditch Anti-LGBT Finance Chair
The Human Rights Campaign and supporters are calling on Mitt Romney to fire his national finance chair, Frank VanderSloot, who has a record of antigay activities.
HRC launched an online action Thursday night, with a letter for individuals to sign and send to Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, and more than 15,000 people have already done so, officials with the group said.
Click the link above to read more.
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