I went to the HRC protest event in San Francisco last night. I will say that I was pretty anti-HRC before it was cool. I mentioned in my last post that they don't represent a good value proposition in attaining full equality. There are other more efficient and effective groups. But, the failure of HRC to support an inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) was the breaking point for many others. And by failing one part of the LGBT community, they fail the entire community.
The event itself outside the hotel went quite well. The keynote speaker, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, canceled this week as he didn't want to cross a picket line. The protest was covered by the local media and made a few stories outside of the Bay area.
In the comments of the previous thread, janinsfran noted that there was a bit of controversy inside of the dinner. I'll see if I can find any information on that.
We have a number of tough fights this year, marriage not being the least of them. However, we can't drop some issues because there are others on the front burner. You can give to the Equality for All campaign (No on 8) here, and find out more about the United ENDA campaign here. We can walk AND chew gum!
