WashBlade.com – Trenton Straube
Protests over movement’s priorities have ‘no impact’ on fundraising efforts
New York – The Human Rights Campaign’s gala New York fundraiser unfolded last weekend in typical fashion: Inside, a swank crowd of almost 1,000 mingled during a formal dinner ceremony while outside about 40 “radical” activists chanted, “You can’t spell LGBT with HRC.”
HRC came under heavy criticism last fall after it declined to oppose a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed by the House of Representatives that was stripped of transgender protections.