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Is HRC Wicked?: A Return TO Barney Frank’s Oz

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Source Summary

Coming up on the two year anniversary of the Human Right Campaign’s (HRC) support of Barney Frank dropping gender identity from the 2007 Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA), the irony of HRC’s current position on DOMA couldn’t be scripted any thicker. HRC defended their defection with Frank in 2007 this way: “Our community can work with the people who want to help us, or we can walk out on them,” Solmonese wrote. “In a community facing such fierce opposition from the outside, it is disheartening to see blame and anger hurled at the people on our own side,” and saying: “It’s the policy of HRC that the organization will only support an inclusive ENDA. In 2007 House leadership informed us that there were insufficient votes to pass an inclusive bill, so they decided to vote on a sexual orientation only bill. We made a one time exception to our policy in

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Community significance

“Is HRC Wicked?: A Return TO Barney Frank’s Oz” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to public policy and governance, while also engaging labor, economics, and institutions. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2009 at Transadvocate.com, “Is HRC Wicked?: A Return TO Barney Frank’s Oz” provides dated evidence of how public policy and governance was being argued in relation to labor, economics, and institutions. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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“Is HRC Wicked?: A Return TO Barney Frank’s Oz” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with public policy and governance. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for labor, economics, and institutions.

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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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How “Public policy and governance” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 4 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations