EBAR.com – by Matthew S. Bajko
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is being criticized by local LGBT leaders for agreeing to give the keynote political speech at this year’s Human Rights Campaign gala in San Francisco.
LGBT groups and city leaders upset with the national gay lobbyist group’s stance on a federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act are boycotting the Saturday, July 26 event at the Westin St. Francis. The controversy stems from HRC’s decision last fall not to oppose ENDA after it had been stripped of transgender protections.