What is going on in Gay Washington? In recent weeks, the HRC sacked their director and turned the reigns over to co-directors while they search for a replacement. But wait, oh wait, do you want to hear the best part one of them is straight! That is right they gave the reigns to the biggest queer lobbying group in the country to a straight man. If that is not appalling enough the inside-gossip on Cheryl Jacques departure claims that it was a republican coup in the executive board. She was too radical. Can this be for real?
How in the fuck did the HRC get too radical? They are the conservative assholes that I have hated for a very long time. If the HRC gets completely taken over by the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Club it will be a sad day for us all. First off queer republicans do not deserve a voice, end of fucking story. I have no sympathy for the traders when the sit around and boo hoo about their party hating them. Well wake up, that is your party, and it is sickening to me that you want to join the club.
What else is going on in Queer Washington? The Stonewall Democrats are looking for a new Executive Director. This vacancy may be a good thing; since this is the first time in ages, the group has not been in debt at the end of a year. The organization really needs to be taken in a new direction where they are ready to build and facilitate from a national office all of the local chapters that’ll get the work done. Hmm sounds like a certain labor union I love… May the best queer win this position (and I do hope it is someone with a bit of flare and not another stuffy Washingtonian. What happened to all the good fags out there?) Well as our fine leaders continue to figure out which way leads to the top (or the bottom) I’ll just move to the next item on the radical homosexual agenda.
It’s always nice to see Josh fired up! 😉
Yeah, the HRC is a pitiful group. Occasionally I pay membership dues but more frequently I don’t. They do have some useful info on their web site. Given that they are downsizing their goals for the next four years I’ll probably not be giving them any money for awhile. Maybe NGLTF, or Lambda Legal, or the NCLR, or the ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Project can use a little extra funding.
In that Globe article you link to, Josh, is a quote from Matt Foreman:
In some ways, Foreman said, the debate over whether to pursue marriage is moot. Marriage is being put on the public agenda in the courts, he said, and activists in Washington and elsewhere can do little about it. “The reality is that the marriage movement is being driven by individual couples going to court and seeking their rights,” he said. “And there is no great, grand, gay cabal that can tell couples, ‘Don’t seek your rights, and just wait a while till the public is ready for it.’ ”
He’s absolutely right.