Tag Archives: HRC

Solmonese On Olbermann

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Product Placing The Gays

For years advertisers have given sly, subtle nods to homo consumers, a phenomenon coined by the Commercial Closet as “gay vague.” Ramping up the visibility ever so slightly, a few brands have begun placing logos known mostly only to gays in their ads. Below left, an Orbitz ad features a man wearing an HRC golf shirt. Below right, an ad …

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HRC’s Joe Solmonese & Sen. Reid At Hate Crimes Act Press Conference

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Solmonese Writes To Obama

Human Rights Campaign head Joe Solmonese has written a lengthy letter to the president decrying last week’s DOJ brief opposing the repeal of DOMA. It reads, in part: As a matter of constitutional law, some of this brief does not even make sense: DOMA does not discriminate against homosexuals in the provision of federal benefits…. Section 3 of DOMA does …

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Coalition Of LGBT Groups Join To Condemn DOJ Motion To Dismiss DOMA Challenge

A coalition of LGBT groups have issued a joint statement condemning the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss a challenge to the Defense Of Marriage Act. Via press release: We are very surprised and deeply disappointed in the manner in which the Obama administration has defended the so-called Defense of Marriage Act against Smelt v. United States, a lawsuit brought in …

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Progress On Hate Crimes In The Senate?

For the more than a month since the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed in the U.S. House, Ted Kennedy’s Senate version of the bill has laid moribund. But today the HRC is telling the Washington Blade that a move is afoot to attach the Senate bill as an amendment to another item, rendering it immune to revision …

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HRC On The March On Washington

I’ve asked some major LGBT rights organizations to issue a statement saying whether they support the proposed March On Washington in 2009. HRC’s Joe Solmonese responds: “We shouldn’t wait until October for a march in Washington to do the critical grassroots organizing that can happen today. As we understand it, the purpose behind the call for a march is to …

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HomoQuotable – Chris Crain

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you. HRC and the Democrats have been promising (with no plan to deliver) passage of a hate crime law and Employment Non-Discrimination Act for more than a decade, including before the 2006 election, and yet we are still expected to be satisfied by these same civil rights crumbs for the entire first year that Democrats …

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Daily Beast Reports: HRC Told Congress To Wait On DADT, Push For ENDA, Hate Crimes Instead

In a video posted at The Daily Beast, reporter Jason Bellini claims that Sen. Chuck Schumer “let it slip” that the Human Rights Campaign told “Senators and members of the U.S. House” to put aside the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and instead focus on ENDA and the hate crimes act. UPDATE: Michael Cole, Senior Communications Manager of the …

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HRC’s NYC Marriage Rally Reel

I spent most of the afternoon trying not to walk through this guy’s shots.

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Solmonese Vs Family Reseach Council

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Where Is Our “Fierce Advocate”?

Today the New York Times wonders when our president, who promised to be a “fierce advocate” for LGBT causes, is going to step up to the plate. President Obama was noticeably silent last month when the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. But now Mr. Obama — who has said he opposes same-sex marriage as a …

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Equality & Justice Day Underway In Albany

The Empire State Pride Agenda’s Equality & Justice Day is underway in Albany, where thousands of activists are joining Gov. Patterson, openly gay Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, and other pro-gay pols to lobby the legislature for LGBT rights. (Photo via HRC Back Story)

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Action Alert: Fight Hate Now

The Human Rights Campaign is asking the LGBT community to call their representatives in Congress over the next three days and demand their support of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. After more than a decade of lobbying on Capitol Hill and seven successful votes on the bill, this critical piece of legislation is again expected to see …

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HRC Takes On Iraq Abuses

The Human Rights Campaign is lobbying the State Department on behalf of the gay men being murdered and tortured in Iraq. Via HRC Backstory: Recently, openly-gay Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) travelled to Iraq and witnessed the dire situation of Iraqi’s LGBT community firsthand. He returned to raise his strong concerns with the State Department. The Council for Global Equality, of …

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Solmonese Vs. Buchanan

Pat Buchanan: “Monogamous relationships in a marriage is a natural law.”

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Equal Taxes, Equal Rights

Some of you weren’t too fond of the LGBT movement attempting to co-opt the tea baggers’ tax protests, but if you ARE interested, today the HRC, Join The Impact, and Marriage Equality USA are organizing at least 60 protests at U.S. Post Offices around the country to demand fair taxation for LGBT couples. It doesn’t matter how long a same-sex …

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Solmonese Vs. Gallagher!

Joe Solmonese FTW!

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Lying NOM Ad Played By Lying ACTORS

The Human Rights Campaign has found the audition reels for the anti-gay National Organization For Marriage spot that I posted this morning. Oops, all that “I’m a Massachusetts mother” bullshit turns out to be exactly that. What’s next for the National Organization for Marriage? Will they hire legendary infomercial pitchman Ron Popeil to hawk their phony agenda?” said Human Rights …

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HRC Says No To Gay-Only ENDA

In 2007 the Human Rights Campaign supported a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that did not include transgender citizens, setting off the biggest rift in the history of LGBT activism as a huge coalition of groups aligned against the HRC. Yesterday the HRC announced that they will not go down that road again. The board of directors of …

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