In my last blog post, Where Your HRC Donations Are Going, I reported that HRC had donated money to sponsor the Log Cabin Republicans but that they had donated zero dollars to sponsor the Stonewall Democrats. Let’s take…
Last week I received an email from the Human Rights Campaign informing me that Joe Biden will be speaking at the the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner on October 4th, 2008. Since that time I’ve expected to hear…
I recently recieved an email alert from NCTE about a fully inclusive ENDA. Mara Keisling said: Dear Friends, I have no doubt we can pass a transgender-inclusive ENDA next year if we all do the work now to…
On June 25, 2008 I was asked to sign on to the National Stonewall Democrat’s Transgender ActBlue page. While I disagreed with the effort (there was no concerted effort behind the scenes to make the fundraising campaign a…
Last year I wrote Photo Ops, Donations, And The Selling of Our Dead, when the Human Rights Campaign tried to hijack the Washington D.C. Transgender Day of Remembrance. To refresh your memory, the founder of the Transgender Day…
Sources on the Hill confirmed to The Transadvocate that Barney Frank’s office will announce the hiring of Diego Sanchez today. Sanchez will replace outgoing senior policy adviser, Joe Racalto. Sanchez is currently the Director of Public Relations &…
There’s a recurrent story that is going through the gossip circles during the Christmas season in trannyland. It goes like this: Barney Frank and the Human Rights Campaign really got their clocks cleaned by the United ENDA controversy,…
Thanks to Box Turtle Bulletin and Gay News Blog I was introduced to this lovely piece of transphobia: The commercial, produced by Citizens For Good Public Policy, shows a small white blond girl entering a public restroom in…
Last month the Advocate ran an article titled “Gay Is The New Black?: The Last Great Civil Rights Struggle“. Today Joe Solmonese and other gay rights advocates have expressed outrage at the choice of Pastor Rick Warren. But…
Today we discussed the lies forwarded by Christian Conservatives: Obama “Forcing” Christians To Embrace Homosexuality, Conservatives Warn gender marker changes in Massachusetts: Go MA! the ALCU is suing Illinois for not changing documentation of people who had SRS…