The Human Rights Campaign was founded, and exists, to pinkwash corporate cash and to provide tax benefits and social opportunities for its wealthy donors.
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They were founded in 1980, and by 1989 assumed their current form as a membership organization and lobbying organization with a demobilizing, DC-based strategy of lobbying politicians for benefits for their white, wealthy, and well-connected donors.https://www.britannica.com/topic/Human-Rights-Campaign …
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Their founding was part of what Sarah Schulman has referred to as the "gentrification of the mind" (and Benjamin Shepard the "assimilationist split") in the LGBTQ movement in the wake of AIDS. Queer Nation, ACT-UP, and countless lesser-known movements fought for justice for all.
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Organizations like the Human Rights Campaign emerged from what Michelangelo Signorile once referred to as the "closets of power" – wealthy, white, gay men (and a limited number of lesbians) who have always been unwilling to support street-level grassroots LGBTQ activism because
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it threatens their class position and their social mores. As a generation of radical activists died in the 1980s and 1990s, these people swept in and started a new "gay rights movement" whose goals would have been unrecognizable to the revolutionaries of 1970s gay liberation.
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Now, let's get to their recent record. In 1998, 2014, and 2016, they endorsed Republican candidates who had made baby-step pandering statements about gay rights against Democratic opponents who were more supportive of LGBTQ equality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign#Endorsement_of_Republican_candidates …
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In 2018, they endorsed Andrew Cuomo over a left-wing lesbian candidate with a far more comprehensive agenda for LGBTQ equality and social justice, Cynthia Nixon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign#2018_New_York_gubernatorial_election_endorsement …
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For most of their existence, they threw trans people under the bus. Trans people were inconvenient, they threatened the HRC donor class's push for assimilation. In 2007, the HRC supported a trans-exclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination act.https://shadowproof.com/2007/11/07/enda-passed-without-real-or-perceived-gender-protections/ …
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Late last year, they ran a "LGBTQ town hall" for Democratic presidential candidates during which Black trans women were not allowed to ask any questions and forcibly removed from the venue.https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/10/14/hrc-head-apologizes-presidential-forums-trans-protesters …
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Late last year, dozens of grassroots trans activists leaders wrote a letter critiquing the HRC's record on trans equality and claim to speak for them: "our work in recent decades has more often been opposed and undermined by HRC rather than supported."https://www.out.com/activism/2019/10/01/open-letter-hrc-trans-community-leaders …
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Now, let's take a look at who donates to the Human Rights Campaign: and who gets their lovely awards for "workplace equality." Here is a list of corporations that have won HRC awards for workplace equality in the last ten years: Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, CreditSuisse, Boeing.
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Companies topping their 2020 "workplace equality index," which their CEO is currently hobnobbing with billionaires in Davos to release, include Walmart, ExxonMobil, Amazon, Chevron, and JPMorganChase.
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That's right: every year, HRC releases an index honoring the companies that are cooking our planet, stealing our money, and abusing us in our workplaces, telling the world that they're fabulous companies for LGBTQ people and employees.
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The Human Rights Campaign wants you to believe that this instance of its consistent antagonistic stance towards left-wing politics and politicians comes from a place of caring about trans people, and not from a place of caring about the CEOs of Exxon, Walmart, and Goldman Sachs.
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The record is out there: you can decide for yourself what you believe. I know that in my book, HRC has been and is harmful to American LGBTQ organizing, and silences and marginalizes many vulnerable people to achieve limited rights for the few.
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They do not speak for me, or for any progressive or left-wing queer person. They actively harm trans people and working-class people. They collaborate with the people who are rigging our economy and threatening our future. Give your money, time, and attention elsewhere.
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