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What Do You Mean Joe Solmonese Doesn’t Deserve a Fashion Award?

OUTFIT: Casual black crew neck sweater
LOCATION: GLAAD panel at Sundance, Jan. 24, 2010
ON THE PLUS SIDE: He fits the business casual mood of the event
AND YET: Seated too far away to catch the red backdrop behind him, he blends into the ether, sort of like his lobbying

[photo: Getty]

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By: editor editor
On: Mar 24, 2010
Tagged: Fashion, HRC, Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese, washington life

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No. 1 · reason · Member · 217 comments
With all the cash that HRC has been collecting he should be the best dressed in D.C.

Mar 24, 2010 at 1:33 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 2 · DEREK WASHINGTON
Ok, this was clever.

Mar 24, 2010 at 1:39 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 3 · jeffree
I didnt think Dolce & Gabbana or Prada even made clothes in Joe’s size!!!!

Mar 24, 2010 at 3:15 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 4 · ryan
Solmonese is such a star-fucker.

Mar 24, 2010 at 4:32 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 5 · Mitch
Who gives a fuck?

Mar 24, 2010 at 5:59 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 6 · tavdy79
I think the award was appropriate – Solmonese makes a better clothes-horse than civil rights advocate. But then, so does Ann Coulter.

Mar 24, 2010 at 8:28 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 7 · j
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.

Mar 24, 2010 at 9:15 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 8 · Lanjier
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.

Mar 24, 2010 at 9:24 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 9 · Cam
Other blogs were kind of mocking him for this as well.

http://citizenchris.typepad.com/

Mar 24, 2010 at 12:15 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 10 · hardmannyc · Member · 1071 comments
Washington: Hollywood for ugly people. Not hard to stand out as a good-looking clothes horse in that early-bird town.

Mar 24, 2010 at 12:21 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 11 · Chitown Kev
Queerty, this is actually one of the best takes on this story.

Mar 24, 2010 at 12:24 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 12 · alan brickman
Sounds like a organization may need an audit……

Mar 24, 2010 at 12:48 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 13 · alan brickman
He wears D and G?……Dolce and Gabbana don’t favor marriage equality….very telling…

Mar 24, 2010 at 12:50 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 14 · Cam
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.

Mar 24, 2010 at 12:55 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 15 · PBCliberal · Member · 4 comments
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.

Mar 24, 2010 at 2:53 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 16 · Feast of Fun · Member · 1 comments
You have no idea how much this made me laugh. Thanks for the compliments!

http://www.queerty.com/what-do.....0100324/5/

Mar 24, 2010 at 4:15 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 17 · AxelDC
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.

Mar 24, 2010 at 10:33 pm · @Reply · Flag