They are great at getting A-list queers to give big donations, making them feel all good about themselves. In exchange, they throw great parties for said donors, hooking them up with the biggest names in Queer America: Ellen, Martina, Barney, Neil Patrick, etc. They turned the old B’nai B’rith building just of Dupont Circle into a fabulous HQ for themselves. This year, they even snagged the President of the US at their gay-lister annual shindig! Bully for them!

Anyone expecting them to make any change for those of us who can only give them $100 or less any year misunderstands their purpose. They are the nation’s premier gay country club.

They also have a great logo and you get a cute hat with your donation. If you were expecting more than that, you’d be better off looking elsewhere.

EqualityAcrossAmerica is the new leadership. Get on board.

(At least until Sullivan makes a good enough argument, eh? You know… one of those arguments that makes him a better paid journalist than Queerty.)

http://www.queerty.com/stop-re.....-20090702/

Instead of continuing to support HRC, we sent our money to Hawaii. Amazingly, HRC withheld support, using the same stupid logic that the effort worked against their agenda for gay rights, in Massachusetts (as did that idiot Barney Frank). Fortunately, enough gays/lesbians/bi/trans have given up on HRC and have pursued marriage equality state-by-state.

What’s worse than “always a fag hag”? A politico hag. And HRC is one bunch of politico hags, sucking up their love lust of politicians. Yuck.

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I have alwasy wondered why HRC didn’t get politicians to sign a “Contract for Equality” in order to get our support. Instead they have this meaningless “gay-friendly” scoring system. We need politicians to say Yes or No to LGBT.

If we are to create a “movement” we will need to enroll an army – equality should be the common denominator. I think the majority of Americans believe in equality – even ours. But, we’re not doing that. Instead we play politics (poorly) and make angry demands about “equal rights” and not equality.

I really wish the Gay Media would convene a “strategy meeting” and invite everyone with an idea. There must be some “new thinking” out there, but it’s always overshadowed by HRC and others. I think the nonprofit sector lacks any incentive – they’re all just trying to raise enough money to fund their salaries. I wish there was a big prize for figuring out how to create our equality – maybe that would inspire some innovation.

I’m not as cynical as Keith. While I don’t think we will have a magical “leader” or even spokesperson – I do think we need some new ideas and new approaches. If there was actually a “strategy” for equality maybe that would inspire/unite us. Right now there’s just a bunch of noise and lots of fundraising.

I’m getting more $$ requests from EqualityAcrossAmerica than HRC. All they want to do is March around making angry demands.

There must be more – better ideas and better leadership. If we could get young people involved I bet they would have some new approaches. I’m afraid the young people that went to DC to March just want to make posters and yell – then, get drinks. Marching is the new excuse for a circuit party.

Its nice to dream, but have you ever tried to get a dozen queens to agree on anything before? How did you do? The real problem is not the gay establishment, its us. We are in the position we are today because we continue to allow it. We continue to vote for the bastards as they sell us out. Its a case of too many chiefs and not enough indians. Everyone wants to be in charge and there is nothing in the way of compromise from anyone.

Brian….I thoroughly concur with your statement, “WE DO NOT HAVE A MOVEMENT”. To advance our fight for full equality, we need a national spokesperson leading the fight, no concessions, no political correctness, none of which have worked. We’re too fragmented and not on the same page, each organization with its own specific agenda. We need to unite under one umbrella with a sole leader who has the political and intellectual skill to take on the establishment.

Apparently you missed the last sentence of my comments: “So, don’t believe it when the HRC Inc. sycophants tell you that something can’t be done.” All I’m trying to say is screw the establishment gays and fight for our rights whenever and however you can.

Bet on us – we have the plan. We have the money. HRC is sooooo over. Thank Jesus my guide and my lord.

So what! Do you think that has done anything for LGBT equality. then, you jump on board with HRC – what are you on their board?

We have had enough bull-shit. If you contributed your East Lansing success to get a place at the HRC table – you are as bad as they are. Weasels.

The Gay Inc. industry is awful and obvious. We need to dismiss them – all of them, professor or not.

Stop giving money to Gay-rights-pimps!

Yep.

You guys seem to forget that there *are* no good legal arguments against gay marriage. Literally, none would stand up in the neutral court of law now that sodomy is legal, and they’re attempting to prove gays cannot help how they are by having several dozen experienced proffesionals, many from the APA, testify for them.

They have a 70% chance, easily.

Funny, everyone thought that Loving v. Virginia would fail in the sixties, especially in the black community. I can also recall people being upset about Lawrence v. Texas failing, as well as the one that ruled in favor of a pro-gay legislation in Colorado (i believe).

I expect it will be 5-4. The justices are not stupid, they are some of the most intelligent people in the country. Scalia is an activist and has no heart/sense of reason, and that one other guy is his pawn, but that’s about it for brain-dead justices.

HRC is anything but incapable of getting these these measures passed…but once they do…party’s over. So…don’t expect movement from HRC on any REAL issues tomorrow, or next month, or even next year. That wouldn’t be good for their bottomline. And the housequeers ONLY care about the bottomline.

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Why not just say the obvious: “HRC is not effective.”

These people take $50 million a year and 70% of it is paid out in salaries and consultant fees. Just imagine what real activists could do with $50 million.

Stop donating to HRC – they are not on our side.

“Someone more astute than I recently observed that HRC seems to exist for no other reason than to throw celebrity-studded benefit galas.”

Heh, we have an organization like that here in Oklahoma. Only with ours, no celebrities show up. Except when they pay Judy Sheppard to come. And unless you are a member (membership is by invitation only, lol) They call it The Cimmaron Alliance Foundation (CAF). Ten years. $1 million raised. And all we have gotten out of it is ONE federal court case where they got us the right to hang queer pride banners on light poles during gay pride month. And this year, they refused to put the banners up for Pride. But they always have money to fund gatherings at our best watering holes for the elite.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so damn sad – and if we weren’t paying for it all.

Instead of focusing on “stop hrc”, do something actually constructive, for example, visit http://www.actonprinciples.org and actually put pressure on Congress to pass the necessary laws.

The “Hate Crimes” bill is an aspirin to the LGBT Equality headache. A little something for the symptom, but nothing for the problem.

HRC operates with a mindset that seeks to delay equality for as long as possible. They have no incentive to do anything quickly. Because of this – most of our donations are wasted on Gay Inc.

Equality is something we – as a movement – will have to do. We are no closer to equality than we were 40 years ago and WE DO NOT HAVE A MOVEMENT.

The Hate Crimes Bill may have a placebo effect and lessen our anger and frustration for a moment – but, it should not be celebrated as a “victory.” It does not contribute to our equality – it only punishes bad behavior.

Our equality relies on changing minds (like those young men were doing in Maine) and not on changing laws. Laws do not create equality – people do.