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Turns out HRC is still trash

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/the-human-rights-campaign-has-totally-betrayed-its-constituents

I haven't really kept up with the org since their bullshit with ENDA around 2009, but wow, sure sounds like they have not improved.

Some quotes:

Its only the most recent of a long series of such disgraces, though. Another recent one: HRC endorsed Andrew Cuomo (another straight man) over Cynthia Nixon (a queer woman). They even endorsed the Republican Susan Collins, who did not at the time support same sex-marriage over a Democratic opponent who has made LGBT equality including full marriage rights a central part of her platform and has even said the current version of ENDA is not strong enough because it would allow religious institutions to still discriminate against LGBT people. At the time, even other Republicans had endorsed marriage equality while Susan Collins stayed silent. (After the story broke, Susan Collins gave a brief and tepid statement of support for marriage equality.)

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This is only the teensiest tip of a very bulky iceberg of failure and betrayal. Current Affairs editor Yasmin Nair, who has long reported on the manifold ways in which queer people are disregarded by the well-funded lobbying organizations that claim to speak for them, has pointed out other deeply dysfunctional aspects of the organization, including, its infamous transphobia, its support of the Bush administrations desire to privatize social security, its censorship of people it deems too messy and untidy. (The history on transgender issues has been especially shameful.) The organization has also had internal scandals over its treatment of women and people of color, with a sexist organizational culture.

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