Houston HRC Protest
Monica Roberts has been blogging about this, and I wasn’t paying attention (my blogular attention is way too spotty these days). But, it continues to confirm that HRC are not our friends and allies.
Short version: HRC actually called the police on the protest, implying that they might turn violent. HRC also had the protesters (who were not violent or loud or carrying signs) escorted out of the hotel when they tried to educate people attending the HRC rally.
HRC tries to spin their years of anti-trans sentiment as a “transgender conspiracy theory.”
I can’t reproduce all the information here, so read the posts at Monica’s blog.
April 21, 2008 at 8:19 am
oh what the FUCK.
April 21, 2008 at 12:49 pm
… what the shit? wow.
April 21, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Anyone have any doubts left? For a while, I was saying, no, no, it’s okay, I won’t support them, but they’re at least helping *gay* people, it’s okay, my friends, you can still support them…
Now it’s clear they’re not just clueless about trans people, not just incompetent or stumbling. They are taking our money and support and actively doing us harm. They have made themselves enemies of the trans community.
Local HRC leadership recently tried to recruit my services. I told them they couldn’t have so much as my name. This is completely unacceptable.
Calling the police. Calling the *police.* On a small, nonviolent group of *trans* people. They’re advocates. They *know* what police do to our kind, and they called the *police* on us.
April 21, 2008 at 6:22 pm
“conspiracy,” yet. they are everywhere, those dastardly conspiracies. it is just depressing to realize that people like Blanche and the Radical Fainting Goats are right out there in the “real world,” too.
shall we all send them little tinfoil triangles?
April 21, 2008 at 6:23 pm
but yeah, flip aside, it is gross. the ghosts of Stonewall should only haunt them the rest of their days. fuckwits.
April 22, 2008 at 12:13 am
Thankfully, your reporting of this brought me to Monica’s post where I found out that there will be protests in New Orleans. You know what that means, right? There’s a chance that I might be able to go out and protest with them! Yippee!!
*Dear Lord, please let me be feeling good that day!!*
April 22, 2008 at 9:12 am
Considering my plan was for people to read Monica’s much more extensive posts on the topic, yay!
little light, I wish I’d thought of that when I posted. I know that I fear the prospect of arrest for precisely that reason. Yes, they’ve crossed a line with this.
April 22, 2008 at 11:18 am
No more checks for them EVER. Thanks to you and Monica!
April 22, 2008 at 1:19 pm
little light,
Don’t you see? They’re trying to give us an opportunity to have our own Stonewall. I mean, since they have completely appropriated the original Stonewall, of which trans people were obviously a part… but now that they’re going along with the idea that transgender people were invented by Jerry Springer well after Stonewall, we’re going to need a Stonewall all our own.
As a friend of mine (who has a much better activism resume than I) said recently, “HRC is great if you’re a rich, white, gay male.”
April 23, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Oh, I’ve seen gay men say “There weren’t any trans people at Stonewall, they were all drag queens!”
Because trans people simply didn’t exist until we wanted to steal all the hard work teh gay menz did first.