Tag Archives: HRC

NAACP Head Julian Bond To HRC:
Gay Rights Are Civil Rights

It’s a longish speech, but there are some truly great moments. Julian Bond = hero.

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HRC Launches New Site To Fight The Anti-Gay Lies Of The Right Wing

The Human Rights Campaign has launched End The Lies, a new interactive site that calls out the lies used by the right wing to thwart LGBT equality. “Again and again, opponents of equality have claimed one shallow victory after another by telling lies about who we are as individuals, as loving couples and as families. These lies must be called …

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Sen. Gillibrand At HRC Dinner

Here’s the video message our new Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand sent to the Human Rights Campaign’s shindig the other night. (Via – Towleroad)

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ESPN To Pull Ad And Apologize

ESPN will pull its homophobic ad featuring Shaquille O’Neal and will issue an apology. Via Chris Johnson at HRC Back Story: This past weekend brought us the latest installment of advertisers using homophobia to sell their products. This time, the ad was on ESPN promoting its NBA programming. The ad features NBA star Shaquille O’Neal rejecting the offer of a …

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HRC’s “State To State” Report

The Human Rights Campaign has published their “State To State” report, a comprehensive listing of what legislation may be coming regarding LGBT rights in every state in 2009 as well as what happened in 2008. Their summary for the coming year: · Marriage equality: Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont are expected to take up legislation. In addition, Iowa’s …

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AFA’s Latest Soon-To-Fail Boycott

The American Family Association routinely announces boycotts of corporations that have made gay-friendly advertising, employment, or charity decisions. And about a year later, when the boycott remains virtually unnoticed by the American consumer, the AFA fabricates the concession of the company in question and announces the triumphant end to their boycott. Today’s target is PepsiCo. PepsiCo has refused a request …

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Ex-Gays Mad That Fannie & Freddie Gave Money To LGBT Activist Groups

Via Christianist “news site” One News Now: The group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is outraged that even though government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went broke and received a federal bailout, they still managed to give thousands of dollars this year to homosexual activist groups. PFOX executive director Regina Griggs says Freddie Mac shelled …

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HRC Send 27,000 Letters To LDS

Yesterday was a busy day in the mailroom of the Mormon Church. President Thomas S. Monson: You have mail – boxes of it. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) delivered 27,000 letters to LDS Church headquarters Monday – all of them asking the Mormon leader to support legal protections for gay and transgender Utahns. The national gay-rights group has endorsed Equality …

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More Warren Reactions: Frank, Solmonese, GLAAD, LA LGBT Center

I’ve been inundated with emails from various groups denouncing the selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. I’ll add to this post through the day as I get to them.Barney Frank: “I am very disappointed by President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to honor Reverend Rick Warren with a prominent role in his inauguration. Religious leaders obviously have …

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HRC Responds To Beckett Fund Ad

The Human Rights Campaign has posted a response to today’s ad by the Beckett Fund in the New York Times. It reads in part: Today, members of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion Council responded forcefully to a full-page ad in the New York Times that implies there is an organized attempt to foment mob intimidation and violence toward the Church …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“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 …

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LA Mayor Joins HRC Gala Boycott

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa abruptly pulled out of his planned keynote speaker role at Saturday’s Human Rights Campaign gala in San Francisco. Some local gay rights leaders and activists had called for a boycott of the gala in protest of last year’s ENDA/transgender debacle. When the San Francisco Labor Council joined the protest, that put Villaraigosa in the uncomfortable …

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Mars Kills Homophobic Snickers Ad

The Human Rights Campaign has announced that candy giant Mars Inc. has agreed to pull their new campaign for Snickers. The commercial features Mr. T machine-gunning an effeminate-appearing Olympic race-walker. Earlier this week, AdAge critic Bob Garfield issued an open letter to the head of the ad agency responsible for the ad, calling for its immediate withdrawal. Following conversations between …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“This blog [Sullivan’s] has long described the useless organization called the Human Rights Campaign as a tool of the Hillary Clinton campaign. But the scale of the group’s enmeshment with the Clintons is revealed by Michael Petrelis’s research into the campaign contributions of all its major figures. “The final tally? Drum roll: Hillary Clinton: $4,300, Chris Dodd: $3,000, John Edwards: …

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More On The “Don’t Sue” Memo

Many of you were puzzled or angered by yesterday’s joint statement from a broad coalition of LGBT groups who are asking that out-of-state gays that marry in California not return to their home states and begin filing lawsuits requesting recognition. Today’s Los Angeles Times sheds some light on the story. The memo cautioned that the U.S. Supreme Court has traditionally …

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“Make Change, Not Lawsuits”

A broad coalition of nine major LGBT rights and legal groups have issued a joint statement asking out-of-state gay couples married in California NOT to then sue the federal government, their home states, or their employers for recognition of their marriage status. Four lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) legal organizations and five other leading national LGBT groups today issued …

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HomoQuotable – David Benkof

“The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest gay-rights group, recently announced plans to spend at least a half-million dollars to defeat the California Marriage Protection Act. What a waste; gays and lesbians have far more urgent needs. The Golden State constitutional amendment poses no substantive threat to them – it will take nothing away from same-sex couples but the word “marriage.” …

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HRC Head Apologizes For “Misspeaking” On ENDA Pledge To Transgenders

Last week in Atlanta, Human Rights Campaign executive director Joe Solmonese privately apologized to a group of transgender activists for “misspeaking” at a conference last year when he promised that his organization would not support a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that did not include gender identity protections. Solmonese met for more than two hours with Atlanta transgender rights …

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HRC’s David Smith On Sirius OutQ Today

Yesterday Howie Klein, who blogs at Down With Tyranny and Crooks And Liars, appeared on Michelangelo Signorile’s show on Sirius OutQ to blast the HRC for withholding its endorsement of U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal. On the show, Klein told Signorile’s listeners to withhold their HRC dues and send them instead to Jim Neal. The Human Right Campaign’s David Smith …

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HRC Withholds Endorsement Of Jim Neal, Openly Gay North Carolina U.S. Senate Candidate

Via Daily Kos diarist SPNJ889: The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) REFUSES to support Jim Neal, an openly gay candidate in North Carolina running for US Senate. Something fishy seems to be going on. Is the DSCC interfering in a Democratic Primary election? Jim Neal, a progressive Democrat in North Carolina, is running to take on Senator Elizabeth Dole. He was …

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