What Do You Mean Joe Solmonese Doesn’t Deserve a Fashion Award?
Human Rights Campaign executive director Joe Solmonese was named to the 35-member 2010 Fashion Awards list by Washington Life magazine, a publication devoted to making the nation’s capital look sexy, even when it’s stuffed with lobbyists, lawyers, and lawmakers, known throughout the land to be ugly and frumpy. The nod to Solmonese’s style puts him in the company of Count Renault de Viel Castel, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussei, and Joe’s BBF Barack Obama. Some queer bloggers are incensed and astonished that Solmonese, the still-employed irrelevant and ineffective Gay Inc. leader, could be celebrated for “favor[ing] designers Ann Demeulemeester, Billy Reid, and Dolce and Gabbana” while failing so brutally at his actual job. But that would be discourteous, because Solmonese is, actually, a snappy dresser.
In his years leading HRC, Joe is anything but a style disaster. Whether the event is a formal black-tie gala or a jeans a t-shirt appropriate event, Joe knows what to wear. So while he may not be doing much to get DADT repealed or ENDA passed, he is making the world a better dressed place.
With all the cash that HRC has been collecting he should be the best dressed in D.C.
Ok, this was clever.
I didnt think Dolce & Gabbana or Prada even made clothes in Joe’s size!!!!
Solmonese is such a star-fucker.
Who gives a fuck?
I think the award was appropriate – Solmonese makes a better clothes-horse than civil rights advocate. But then, so does Ann Coulter.
I’m sorry but I don’t think I’d ever step out my front door dressed as badly as this. Crewcut sweater, really? And I don’t think his suits could get more boring if his granny had knitted him them for christmas. This is stupid.
We pay him pretty well. But if he gets a plum job in the Administration to reward him for making us the Cinderellas of the Democratic Party, cunt will have to spend a lot less. Maybe he will be forced to send his shopper to Brooks Brothers.
Other blogs were kind of mocking him for this as well.
http://citizenchris.typepad.com/
Washington: Hollywood for ugly people. Not hard to stand out as a good-looking clothes horse in that early-bird town.
Queerty, this is actually one of the best takes on this story.
Sounds like a organization may need an audit……
He wears D and G?……Dolce and Gabbana don’t favor marriage equality….very telling…
I think his pay should be tied into legislative sucess. He said DADT would go down this year, fine, if it doesn’t knock $100,000 of his salary. Additionally, just how many black tie events has he gone to since he got the job. He is just using this job to act like a big shot around DC. He shouldn’t have time to buy a different $2500.00 outfit every week for another event. Hell Obama was having his shoes resoled during the campaign and this guy who does nothing is buying D&G tuxes like he’s a bride at a basement wedding dress sale.
I do not understand the snarky comments our community is making about Mr. Solmonese. As we all know, obtaining equal rights is a multifaceted problem only solved by a multi-pronged approach.
There is nothing more ineffective than expecting cocktail-party activism to move us forward without doing the hard haberdashery work required to underpin it. Who among us hasn’t seen just the right zinging one-liner that would inspire a Congresscritter to change his vote fall flat, overpowered by a fashion faux pas.
You have no idea how much this made me laugh. Thanks for the compliments!
http://www.queerty.com/what-do.....0100324/5/
I’m glad he’s having so much fun running the Human Rights Champagne.
I’m also glad that I stopped giving to his sartorial fund years ago. I’d rather it go to a group that fights for my rights instead of hobnobbing with A-listers and gay icons.