GOProud fully endorses anti-gay advocates.

That’s the difference.

This and their willingness to give the administration a pass when they looked they were backing out on the DADT promise (I will always remember the whole “Thy got it covered” comment without explanation, after a very short meeting) are the main reasons why i do not support them anymore and look at them with suspicion.

For a long time, all I have seen is high ranking gays jumping from HRC to high ranking administration jobs (case in point, the outgoing ED taking a job with the Obama administration). This has led me to believe (as I already said) they have just become a holding pot for gays-in-waiting and not an advocacy agency.

Thank you sweetheart. I have had amny a conversation with a “T” brother or sister and their presence in my life has been nothing but uplifting.

Plus it seems you’re trying to smear LGBTs and their allies who oppose HRC’s alliance with Blankfein as being knee jerk anti-business. And just as you’ve recently made the case that GOProud isn’t _really_ a gay organization, you’re now trying to suggest that gay activists who think economic perceptions matter aren’t _really_ gay activists.

This blog post of yours seems a little tone deaf on economic issues, because there are a lot of people who are REALLY pissed at Goldman Sachs and the rest of the financial sector right now — and have good reason to be, including a great many people who are struggling just to get by.

One thing HRC and maybe you also don’t get is that LGB people are seen by a large portion of straight people as white and affluent. They don’t think of us at the same time they think of people trying to keep their homes or get enough food to eat. Black, Latino, and Native American people are thought of that way, but not us. And some gay people are VERY happy that we generally aren’t thought of that way, but those gay people are, in my opinion, shallow and self-absorbed. Because the perception of us as uniformly affluent splits us off from the large proportion of straight Americans who struggle with getting by. And it’s all too helpful to the anti-gay crowd when they want to pit us against ethnic minorities who have even bigger problems with poverty than do Americans in general.

Those of us in and allied to the LGBT community know that the HRC doesn’t represent us all, but when I’ve seen straight writers write about it, they’ve operate under the assumption that the HRC does speak for all LGBTs. We really don’t need HRC’s grandstanding with a financial industry malefactor to tar us with the image of being cynically and uncaringly affluent, or of being craven, fawning suckups to the wealthy and powerful.

You need to be really careful about deigning to speak for “most of us,” Timothy. Have you conducted any polls? Were you appointed our official spokesman?

“And if advancing gay rights is but a secondary purpose – as is the case with GOPride and GetEqual – then you aren’t a gay organization.”

Same with kicking people and organizations out of the True Gay Organization club.

Believe it or not, many LGBT people are perfectly capable of truly, sincerely supporting LGBT equality while also supporting other important issues.
Unfortunately, you seem to demand support for the issues you care about, but continually trivialize non-gay related social justice issues that allies and others in the LGBT community care about.

I agree with GetEqual. I would not stand in the same room with Lloyd Blankfein. He belongs in a cell with Bernie Madoff. If Bernie Madoff wanted to endorse HRC’s agenda, I am sure they’d happily arrange a cocktail party in the prison visitor’s hall. They’d sell their mothers for a $10,000 donation.

The Task Force is doing a good job of linking issues. HRC continues with its tunnel vision. I can only pray that the new ED will change their attitude.

I’ve come to accept, however, that a lot of people have a sincere belief that both sides of the political spectrum are equally at fault in most if not all ways, and look only for evidence to confirm that belief rather than accepting the evidence for the fact that sometimes one side doesn’t match the other in a particular way at all. In this case, there is no left-wing equivalent to GOProud.