Good As You: HRC Roundup
04/10/2012
HRC, Freedom To Marry to Catholic Church: Feed the hungry, not NOM's coffers!
The heavily Catholic National Organization for Marriage has certainly enjoyed a cozy relationship with that church's hierarchy. Today, the Human Rights Campaign and Freedom to Marry are telling the Church and its top American voice to breakup with the divisive...
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11/08/2011
NOM Exposed: HRC takes national law firm Foley & Lardner to task for its relationship with NOM, Cleta Mitchell
Via Human Rights Campaign press release: HRC today criticized the national law firm Foley & Lardner for making anti-LGBT arguments and lobbying for anti-LGBT legislation as part of its representation of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), one of the...
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04/12/2011
Video: Law & Order: SVU (Synonymous Vows Unit)
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03/15/2011
Poll: Def. End DOMA (or least stay out of the way)
New from HRC: Support for the idea that most Americans would rather see Speaker Boehner and the Republicans rev up our tepid economy rather than our tired "culture wars": Public Opinion and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) American voters...
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10/13/2010
NOM: Packer backers
LDS Elder Boyd K. Packer recently referred to same-sex marriage as one of "Satan’s many substitutes and counterfeits for marriage." Or, according to the National Organization For Marriage: Packer merely "defended tradition": It's kind of an extraordinary moment. Elder Boyd...
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08/20/2010
Seeing red: To 'cott or not?
In the aftermath of Target donating money to anti-LGBT gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, The Human Rights Campaign has put out forceful press releases chastising the red-circle company for not making right with the LGBT community by donating an equal sum...
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08/16/2010
You'd think with so many jumbo paper towel packs, Target would be better at handling messes
Right when they open a long-awaited Manhattan store, too: Target Corporation Message to LGBT Community: We Won’t Make it Right HRC to Devote $150,000 in Minnesota to Elect Pro-Equality Candidates WASHINGTON – After two weeks of good-faith discussions – and...
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03/24/2010
A brief note on public relations
Yesterday, this writer posted a piece about the rhetorical idea that any of our advocacy organizations are defined by black tie dinners and cocktail parties. And I stand by it 100%. Because regardless of how meritorious or lacking any of...
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03/02/2010
Audio: A wallflower John is not
John Aravosis Is On the Attack Against HRC + the DNC. Is It Working [Queerty] Some will disagree strongly with John, and some will agree just as strongly. And that support will likely shift on a point-by-point basis. This is...
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02/08/2010
Weird how far-right turns all of prez's LGBT picks into 'bigots'. Funny how that works, huh?
April of 2007: A Wyoming couple was barred from taking communion because of their marriage equality advocacy. This prompted the Human Rights Campaign's Harry Knox to say: “In this holy Lenten season, it is immoral and insulting to Jesus to...
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01/05/2010
Is that an HRC buying guide in your pocket or...?
Supporting fair-minded biz? There's an app for that: The Human Rights Campaign’s “Supporting Businesses That Support Us” campaign goes high-tech this new year with a free iPhone application that equips pro-equality shoppers with rankings of popular American brands at their...
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12/17/2009
HRC looks back @ '09 (including those two or three days noone was criticizing them)
The March on Washington. President Obama's words. Wins and losses on marriage. The continued hopes for a Carrie Prejean vs. Lady Gaga mud wrestling match. You surely have your own thoughts about LGBT rights in '09. But if you're curious...
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11/12/2009
LGBT's biggest label endorses Senate's only 'brand
The Human Rights Campaign has officially endorsed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in her 2010 re-election bid: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s record for the LGBT community includes: -Support of equal marriage rights for same-sex couples -Helping lead efforts to repeal the discriminatory...
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10/14/2009
Most scrutinized LGBT leader puts forth more sure-to-be-scrutinized words
HRC's Joe Solmonese is responding to the so-called "2017 letter" and some of the other controversies that greeted him this weekend. Since the intent is to explain himself against the myriad of rhetorical (calls for his resignation) and physical (vandalism...
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10/11/2009
And by 'glamdalism,' they mean 'obnoxious, childish, reprehensible act of uncivil disobedience'
The Phelps family was in town. Randall Terry was too. The so-called "truth truck" was also making its way around the District. And there were a couple of other megaphone-carrying anti-gays of indeterminate affiliation. So with all that animosity, it...
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10/10/2009
Dear HRC dinner attendees:
The president does not deserve a standing ovation on anything involving our relationship recognition unless and until he comes out for FULL marriage equality. He did not do that. On this issue, let's not rise to our feet (in a...
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Solmonese's email: Not gonna lie, it annoyed me no more than the boner pill ad that followed it
Here at the National Equality March weekend (and online), there's lots of chatter about an email blast that HRC prez Joe Solmonese sent out on the eve of his group's big, Obama-laden dinner. Why, you ask? Well, mainly because of...
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10/05/2009
Canapés and clenched fists can and do coexist
Do you all remember how, during the heat of the 2008 election, so many of us were dumbfounded by the way Sarah Palin kept pitting "real Americans" against those who held progressive views/merely lived in a blue state? Yeah, well...
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No offense to 'Glee' cast, but HRC dinner tix just got intensely hotter
Major news from/for HRC: President Obama will speak to a gathering of gay rights activists this weekend, a day before thousands of people are expected to march on Washington in a demonstration calling for greater legal protections for gays, lesbians...
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09/17/2009
Video: Straight (and LGBT) from the heart
Nice conversation, John Legend tunes, and some naked revelations. Those are the makings of a good date. Those are the makings of a good HRC video series: HRC Launches ‘Conversations from the Heart’ for Coming Out Day [HRC]
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08/10/2009
G.I.s, Joe: Solmonese is as doubtless as DADT is heartless
Optimism, thy name is Solmonese: U.S. NEWS WRITER DAN GILGOFF: President Obama hasn't moved on promises to overturn "don't ask, don't tell" or the Defense of Marriage Act. Has he fulfilled his pledge to be a "fierce advocate for gay...
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07/30/2009
'The dog ate my homo-work'
"But we have to be pragmatic" "There are more important issues" "Rep. Kucinich ripped a nasty one, and we can't go back into the House chambers until the air clears out" We've all heard the excuses for why even our...
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Civil debate? Absolutely. Ignoring past demonizations? Never!
Jim Garlow was an incredibly vocal Prop 8 proponent, saying whatever, whenever in order to get the hurtful ban passed: "[If] we lose [the fight for Prop. 8], we go to jail. How soon I don't know. But the fact...
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07/23/2009
Video: Praying for peace
The anti-gay right likes to talk about the gay community's supposed "hijacking" of various people, places, and things. HRC's ready to flip the conversation and instead talk about the God that they've long hijacked as a way of beating back...
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06/27/2009
While we were away: Orbitz's support remained sublime (even if subliminal)
Check out the random, unacknowledged logo on the one dude's polo: On-Air. Fair. Nice subtle move, flighty company! Orbitz Golfers [YT}
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05/14/2009
Barack's door: They knock Knox, we knock noxious attacks
They say: President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20500-0003 Dear Mr. President, On April 6, you named Harry Knox to your Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. You claim to have created this Council,...
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05/13/2009
Harry Knox: 'Church Defamer'
April of 2007: A Wyoming couple was barred from taking communion because of their marriage equality advocacy. This prompted the Human Rights Campaign's Harry Knox to say: “In this holy Lenten season, it is immoral and insulting to Jesus to...
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05/07/2009
Human Rights Campaign: Now 9% less humaned
Some bad news from the HRC camp, as the economic realities have forced the gay rights giant to pink slip a bakers' dozen: "The Human Rights Campaign, like so many other non-profits in this economy, has had to adjust its...
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04/29/2009
Next NOM vid: Less stormy, more Solmonese-y
We don't know what, exactly, the National Organization for Marriage's new Carrie Prejean ad is going to entail. But we do know that it's going to feature Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese. A video, set to private, was up...
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04/21/2009
Video: Poignant
Pass Federal Hate Crimes Protections Now – vote is coming! [HRC]
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04/17/2009
Video: Pat Buchanan starring in the same wordy melodrama he's staged for decades
The man who's often credited with coining the term "culture war" faces off with a man who's sick of the rhetorical nonsense: At this point, the far-right's takes on our lives and loves are like science fiction. We find ourselves...
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04/10/2009
Video: Wherein Brian Brown forfeits
What's the National Organization For Marriage's new strategy for promoting their EPIC FAIL of an ad? Well if last night's "Ed" show is any indication, they no longer plan to show up on national media to defend the fallacy-filled spot,...
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04/07/2009
Anti-gay takes on HRC: Now fishier than usual
Hey, anti-gay leaders: If you're gona gun for our leaders, at least get their names right: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=479366 [ONN] Unless, of course, Joe SOlmonese has launched a new venture that he's yet to tell us about: But we don't think so....
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04/06/2009
Video: Raise a wed flag
In order to commemorate the Hawkeye State's historic ruling, Human Rights Campaign staffers took a little time Friday afternoon to raise the Iowa state flag over their D.C. mothership: Upon seeing the raised banner, Westboro Baptist protestors reportedly totally them...
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04/03/2009
Because it's not a victory until press releases tell you so..
Iowa. The national organizations weigh in: “This is a truly historic day for Iowa and a proud day for every American who believes in the promise of equal rights and fairness for all,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese....
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03/26/2009
HRC T's up for more peaceful ENDA discourse
Remember in 2007, when their failure to oppose a non-inclusive ENDA led many LGBT activists to Harangue/Ridiculue/Challenge HRC? Well happily, the future seems more Hopeful Regarding Cooperation on passing an inclusive measure: The board of directors of the Human Rights...
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03/18/2009
Video: Dianne with two n's honors families with two m's (or f's)
VIDEO: Senator Dianne Feinstein and LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at HRC’s LA Dinner [HRC Backstory] **MORE: LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, NAACP head Julian Bond, and HRC prez Joe Solmonese:
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03/05/2009
Human Rights Campaign vs Dehumanizing Wrongs That Cause Pain
We at G-A-Y have been challenging "pro-family" fallacy for over four years. But now our older, richer, less-likely-to-use-terms-like-"poop pickles"-when-referring-to-anti-gay-measures, more well-connected, better-staffed, beltway-insidery cousins at the Human Rights Campaign are getting into the online feet-to-fire game. How? Well today that...
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02/19/2009
Video: Honoring, not hijacking
The Human Rights Campaign honors Black History Month: Despite some conservatives cries about gays unfairly hitching their wagon to the African American Civil Rights Movement, the reality is that the dots of discrimination are connected in some very profound ways....
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02/11/2009
'Silencing'? Try Sing'n lies!
A few days ago we told you about "Silencing Christians," a website and video campaign that those reliable lil at the American Family Association have cooked up for the sole reason of making gays look like brute militants hellbent on...
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02/10/2009
Video: HR in NY for all to C
While we were in Long Island doing Limoncello shots and eating birthday cake (there's no joke there -- that's literally what we were doing), the Human Rights Campaign was in NYC last Saturday night to celebrate/ raise funds/ fete politicians...
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12/23/2008
Letter day for Latter Days: HRC holds mail orgy at Mormon temple
You know how as part of their face-saving post-Prop 8 efforts, the LDS church has been fond of saying that while they are against marriage equality, they are not opposed to other systems of conferring rights to same-sex couples? Well...
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12/19/2008
Turning anti-gay lemons into 'gays are not demons!'-ade
In an attempt to harness the energy that's gone into the Rick Warren Fiasco and repurpose it for the equality cause, the Human Rights Campaign has laid out a "Blueprint for Positive Change" to which they are calling on the...
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11/14/2008
Mad Props: HRC pens 'yes on 8' naughty list
Here in the online community, various folks have been bringing to light the businesses and figures who made the unfortunate choice to support Proposition 8. But now, in what seems to be a first, one of our national organizations has...
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10/28/2008
Protext gay equality
Have an absentminded friend, acquaintance, yoga teacher, dog groomer, acupuncturist, or snake charmer who you fear is going to forget to vote for equality next Tuesday? Well fortunately the Human Rights Campaign has come up with a novel way for...
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10/06/2008
HRC dinner: After lame duck will come sweet treats
Hillary C. spoke out against a potential McCain-Palin administration. Suze O. proved that there are still a few financially-minded people deserving of honor. And Jennifer Holliday brought "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" to gay ears for approximately...
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10/01/2008
Video: Wass illin' ya, Wasilla gays?
A few weeks ago, our Facebook status page was routinely met with little updates from the Human Rights Campaign's Michael Cole, saying that he was on some sort of sojourn up in Alaska. We were intrigued by Michael's travels and...
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09/18/2008
Dinner, dessert, and a cup of Joe: Biden puts bid in for HRC affair
It's just been announced that the potential Veep who hopefully did know what the Bush Doctrine is before last week, Joe Biden, will be putting in an appearance at the Human Rights Campaign's National Dinner in Washington, DC: Joe Biden...
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08/19/2008
QT challenges HRC; vowels glad to be left alone
The folks at QueerToday.com, who've long captured our hearts and minds by being one of the biggest thorns in the side of the radically anti-gay MassResistance group, are now turning their sites to an organization that conventional wisdom would say...
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07/28/2008
Non-inclusive ENDA: A fight with a non-foreseen end-a
The Human Rights Campaign/ transgender community rift continues. This report from San Francisco: Keeping the T in LGBT [Castro in the Streets] **More from the weekend event: Lesbian Says Security Assaulted Her During SF HRC Dinner [Towle] LA Mayor Joins...
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