SIGN THE PETITION: SUPPORT THE HRC SF GALA DINNER BOYCOTT
SIGN THE PETITION: SUPPORT THE HRC SF GALA DINNER BOYCOTT
On Saturday, July 26th, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is hosting its annual San Francisco gala dinner and fund raiser at the Westin St. Francis hotel. They’ll raise money, cheer and applaud their apparent successes in Washington DC, announce a sudden, renewed interest in marriage, and claim that they are advancing the nation’s LGBT agenda.
But we in San Francisco’s LGBT community are preparing our OWN July 26th party in the streets, outside of the Westin St. Francis. We also encourage others in the LGBT community and our allies to boycott HRC’s gala event, due to HRC’s ongoing refusal to advocate for federal legislation that protects all Americans from discrimination based on gender identity and expression.
We need your support! Please sign the petition in support of the HRC gala dinner boycott, joining organizations like the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, And Castro for All, The Trans March, The Lou Sullivan Society, FTM International, FTM San Buenaventura Chapter, and the SF Labor Council. Already, many of our City’s leading politicians have committed to staying home. State Senator Carole Migden, Assembly Member Mark Leno and City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Public Defender Jeff Adachi aren’t going. SF Supervisors Bevan Dufty and Tom Ammiano have introduced a resolution at the SF Board of Supervisors urging that their fellow elected officials not to attend the HRC dinner. Thus far, Board President Aaron Peskin, Supervisor Chris Daly, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, and Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval also have committed to support the HRC dinner boycott. The President of the School Board Mark Sanchez and School Board Members Jane Kim and Eric Mar have also signed on.
Also, join SF Pride at Work for a fun, inclusive, alternative party outside of the Westin St Francis, with signs, entertainment, stickers, and our own awards and accolades. Ours will be a space where EVERYONE is welcome. The Left Out Party starts outside at 5PM!
We need your help! Please sign the petition, and tell your friends to join you in showing support for true inclusion in our community.
-Go to www.leftinsf.com to sign the petition. Email sfprideatwork@gmail.com to confirm our next meeting!
Individual signers in the order that they were received:
Robert Haaland, Co-Chair, SF Pride at Work
Hunter Hargraves And Castro For All (board)
David Campos, Democratic County Central Committee
Michael Bornstein, Democratic County Central Committee
Maggi Rubenstein, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
Rafael Mandelman, President, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
jazzie collins
Yosenio V. Lewis, Woodhull Freedom Foundation
Tim Durning, President, SF4Democracy
Treasurer, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
Joan Roughgarden
Stuart Milk
AJ Rowe
Joe Julian, Democratic County Central Committee
Sarah Garmisa, Pride at Work, Treasurer
Kevin Lyons
Matt Dorsey
Rebecca Ann Pratt
Mark Sanchez, President, SF Board of Education
Elizabeth de Rham
T Santora, Co-Chair, National Pride at Work
Paul Hogarth
Former Supervisor Harry Britt
Dr. Mekah Gordon, Pioneering, Frontier Renaissance Woman & Visionary
John Newsome, And Castro For All
Esperanza Macias
Michael Goldstein, Democratic County Central Committee
Conny Ford, Vice President, SF Labor Council
Don Romesburg
Hasan Shafiqullah
Jerry the Faerie
Steve Shapiro
Guilliana Milanese
Charles Sheenhan
Rabbi Levi Alter, President of FTM International and as the chapter president of FTMI San Buenaventura Chapter
Ken Rowe, owner/community relations EROS, the Center for Safe Sex and Trannywood Pictures.
Bruce Wolfe, M.S.W., Candidate for SF College Board
Hale Thompson,Recorder, Executive Board, Harvey Milk LBBT Democratic Club
Sasha Magee, Vice President, Internal
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
Sarah Mcdonald
Eric Quezada
Hava Edelstein, UC Berkeley Student
Resident, Oscar Wilde House
David Ho
Alysabeth Alexander
Brian Polejes
Rick Galbreath
tommi avicolli mecca
Mira Ingram
Mira Ingram
paul page
Jaron Browne
Aspen Branch-Moore
S. Wendy Lee
Tab Buckner:
Peter Wong
Kip Williams
T. Aaron Hans
Tim Kingston,Former Reporter San Francisco Bay Times, Former News Editor San Francisco Frontiers
Catherine Cusic, VP Political Action, Harvey Milk LGBT Club
Tony Gantner
Jim Hammer:
joseles de la cruz
Denise McCarthy
Terrrie Frye, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
Jane Morrison, Former Chair, SF Democratic Party
Dragonsani Renteria, Deaf Queer Resource Center
Michael Welch/Sanctuary
Peter Wong, Meetup & Memberships Coordinator, SF4Democracy
Melinda Rhodes
Mark McKenzie
Donna Linden
Rae Greiner
Daria Garina
Victoria Welle
Victor Valdiviezo
Justin Zarrett Blake, Pride At Work, Queer Youth Organizing Project
Ethan St.Pierre
Patrick Doyle
Lisa Roth, one of the Dyke March founders
Esteban Rodriguez, Dimensions Queer Youth Clinic
Kelli Busey
Jerry threet
Jay Davis
Dina Boyer
Eric/a Says:
Saul Kanowitz
Shannon & Kate Amitin
Miles Conrad
Ryan Wilde
Mickey Ray Mahoney
kim paulus
allen conkle
Samuel Ace
Vanessa Moses
Malachi Garza
David Chiu
Kendra Froshman
Audrey Reed
Cynthia
Dr Kimberly Hyatt-Wallace
Paula Funatake
TransParentcy
Rev. Joshua A. Holiday, The TransGeneration:
Carolyn Wolff, San Francisco
Narumi Tei Okamoto
dylan mcginty
Joni Christian
Chet Dillfy, Political Columnist, Handbook Magazine
Kelli Busey
Calvin Borgmann
Dr. Mekah Gordon
Chris Jackson
Matthew Bandiera & Timothy Williamson
Dee - North Dakota
Texas Tomboy
Nikki Molloy
Amber Thompson
Kara Harkins
Glenn Davis, Member Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
Joselyn Harris, Chairwoman of Transgender Advocacy and Service Center of San Diego County.
Joselyn Harris
Alan Collins
Kai Sorro
Holy Old Man Bull (Marcus Arana)
Patricia Kevena Fili
Marlene Machado
Harlan Pruden
Carling Tully.
Jamison Green
Claire Eustace
Janey Hall
Nathan Purkiss, Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
Julius Turman, Co-chair, Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
steven barrios
J Simon Cornette
Simon Aronoff
Meghan Karels
Richard Lime
sara bendoraitis
Eric Mar
Laura Spanjian
Connie O’Connor
Annick Persinger
Matt Wood
James Roue Iniguez
Jo Kenny
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
SF Pride at Work
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
And Castro for All
The Trans March
The Lou Sullivan Society
and the SF Labor Council.
State Senator Carole Migden
Assembly Member Mark Leno
Supervisor Tom Ammiano
Supervisor Bevan Dufty
Board President Aaron Peskin
Supervisor Chris Daly
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Robert Haaland, Co-Chair, SF Pride at Work
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
And Castro For All (board)
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Hunter Hargraves
And Castro For All (board)
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Please add my name to the petition!
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
We all must stand together!
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I am totally for trans inclusion and always have been. I am outraged that hrc is so blind. they don’t like bi people either and probably wish we hadn’t been included in enda. we must have solidarity and join in the boycott!!! love, maggi
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Sign me up.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I’ will be there to support my community member on that fine day. HRC know that we are one big family.
Looking forward to have some fun!
jazzie.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Woodhull Freedom Foundation
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Please add my name to the petition.
Thank you,
Tim Durning
President
SF4Democracy
Treasurer
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Count me in. Thanks — Joan
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Add my name to the Petition
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I’m in!
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Yep.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Add my name to the petition please.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I’m proud to add my name to the petition; I’ll plan to attend the Left Out Party on July 26th to show my support; and I’ll try to bring others.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Full protection and access to rights is what we want! I’ll be there..
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I support the petition–please do add my name.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I support the petition. thanks.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
thank you for informing
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
The Human Rights Corporation (HRC) doesn’t speak for me. When they had the chance to stand with the broad LGBT community they chose to abandon our Trans sisters and brothers instead. They certainly don’t deserve our support now and neither do those who stand with them.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I support the boycott.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I support the boycott.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
You can’t have Unequivocal Equali( )y, without the “T”
Dr. Mekah Gordon
Pioneering, Frontier Renaissance Woman & Visionary
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I’m in! Of course.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Count me in!
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Trans folk were with us in the beginning and they WILL be with us all the way
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Absolutely - I’m in.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
As a queer historian, I know the painful and violent erasure that transfolk have faced in the gay community, despite our collective struggle over the past century to overcome sexual and gender bias. HRC must know we will no longer allow a slash-and-burn, stripped-down gay rights approach that diminishes liberties and possibilities for us all.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I support the boycott.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Transgender rights are human rights! Shame on the cowardice of the HRC.
By the way what did happen to all that money embezeled from the ill advised 2000 Millenium March on Washington. You made sure there won’t be another LGBT March on Washington for a long time.
Then there was your endorsement of Republican Senator Di Amato. HRC has always been an ineffective conservative Uncle Tom like institution.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Please add my name in support.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
proud to support the boycott
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Add my name Robert…
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
FTM International
FTM San Buenaventura Chapter
and
Rabbi Levi Alter
sign the Petition in Support of those who boycott HRC until HRC stops boycotting it’s own gender-diverse LGBT members, volunteers and donors in a game of expediency over integrity, sometimes it’s not whether you win or lose, but how fair you play the game
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Ken Rowe, owner/community relations EROS, the Center for Safe Sex and Trannywood Pictures.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Please add my name to the endorsement list.
Thank you.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Hale Thompson
Recorder
Executive Board
Harvey Milk LBBT Democratic Club
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
of course.
Sasha Magee
Vice President, Internal
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Please add my name to the petition!
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:15 am
For Sure add me to list, thanks
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 am
I support this boycott, please add my name.
Hava Edelstein, UC Berkeley Student
Resident, Oscar Wilde House
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 am
i also support the boycott!
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:30 am
Alysabeth Alexander–of course! Add me to the lıst, I wıll not be around for the protests–am out of town vısıtıng famıly–but I wıll spread thıs around.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:31 am
We must support the entire LGBT community, not just part of it.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:34 am
We stand taller, together.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:34 am
Sign me on! HRC does not speak for me, it never has.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:44 am
I support the boycott!
Mira Ingram
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:59 am
HRC? Don’t you mean SHRC? Some Human Rights Campaign.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 am
I’m in. I’ll go to the website and forward to other people too.
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 am
I support the boycott! HRC needs to stop being cowardly!
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
see you at the LEFT OUT PARTY: A GENDERFUL GAY-LA!! July 26
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Add my name, In Solidarity!
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
I will no longer support HRC till they have total inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, AND TRANSGENDER!
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
Thanks for organizing this! I’ll be coming to the “alternative party” to make a video for my video blog, Castro in the Streets (youtube.com/castrointhestreets).
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 am
i’ve been boycotting HRC since the 90’s they still don’t get it?
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I support the boycott.
Former Reporter San Francisco Bay Times
Former News Editor San Francisco Frontiers
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
This is a “back of the bus” attitude that can’t be tolerated in our community.
What is it about the words “Human Rights” that HRC doesn’t understand?
I’ll be there july 26!
Catherine Cusic
VP Political Action
Harvey Milk LGBT Club
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
As promised at the Harvey Milk LGBT Club July 1, 2008 District 3 Supervisor Candidates Forum. I’m with you.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
United we stand - divided we all fall.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
What part of human rights does HRC not understand? And how dare they call our protest divisive rather than demonstrate that they’re unified by supporting an inclusive ENDA now!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I’m with you. Please add my name to the petition.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Please add my name to this petition.
Terrrie Frye
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
We support the boycott.
Dragonsani Renteria
Deaf Queer Resource Center
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
We support the boycott add me to the list.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I support the boycott even if I’m not there that evening.
Peter Wong
Meetup & Memberships Coordinator
SF4Democracy
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Consider my name on the petition!!!!! I’ll try and make it. Depends on my financial situation. Being a single mom on a fixed budget is hard, but I will still try and make it!!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Consider my name on the petition!!!!! I’ll try and make it. Depends on my financial situation. Being a single mom on a fixed budget is hard, but I will still try and make it!!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
100% support, all the way!!! Thank you!
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
yes, please do add my name to the petition and i’ll see you all at the protest!
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
in case you were wondering, this is for ENDA
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
add my name please, will be there
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
solidarity.
July 4th, 2008 at 3:29 am
Discrimination, especially within the community, is not to be tolerated. I am down for a protest.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Pride At Work, Queer Youth Organizing Project
July 4th, 2008 at 7:58 am
You have my full support! We would like to continue to carry this message to other cities where HRC is holding their dinner events. Let’s keep this wonderful momentum going!
July 4th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I support the boycott too
July 4th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Being conservative never got us anywhere.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Add my name to the petition please.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Activism is the Bulldozer of change! You rock in S.F.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Jerry threet
July 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Jerry threet
July 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Jerry threet
July 4th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Please add me. And thanks for organizing!
July 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Please add my name to the petition. I will also show up…
Thanks
July 5th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Trans-exclusion is just the tip of the HRC iceberg of terror. They have, and continue to fight only for the “rights” of well connected, (mostly white) upper-middle class gays and lesbians. Their annual “buyers guide” celebrates every evil global-national exploiter imaginable and almost everything they sell is made in sweatshops. What about the “human rights” of those folks? There cannot be a “better, more inclusive” HRC, there can only be the end to the HRC. As Sylvia Rivera said “One of our main goals now is to destroy the Human Rights Campaign, because I’m tired of sitting on the back of the bumper. It’s not even the back of the bus anymore — it’s the back of the bumper. The bitch on wheels is back.”
July 5th, 2008 at 7:15 am
I am for inclusive ENDA
July 5th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
We do not support HRC and will not attend their gala fundraiser.
July 5th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I will not attend the HRC dinner!
July 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I’d like to sign the petition.
July 5th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Inclusive ENDA! Gender discrimination affects the gays too!
July 5th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
i will not support HRC. they need to be accountable for their bigotry.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
show some leadership HRC!
July 6th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
HRC and its leadership should have supported an inclusive ENDA and set a clear example to end gender discrimination.
July 6th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
gender justice now
July 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
thrive
July 7th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I support the boycott.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Yeah!
July 8th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Please add my name to the petition as well. Thanks!
July 8th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Remember Stonewall! Please do add my name.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:15 am
The HRC has been tossing the trans community under the bus quite long enough.
forget them, and do not donate to them
July 8th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Please add TransParentcy to your petition.
Thanks,
Paula
July 8th, 2008 at 7:20 am
When are we going to learn, that together we can accomplish everything, but separately, we will always be a joke.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Please add my name. Carolyn Wolff, San Francisco
July 8th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I hope they can come to their senses. I’ve had to sign a petition of sorts for bad decision making by HRC far too many times.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
all inclusive or none at all
July 8th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I am with you in Solidarity!
I wish I could celebrate with you in person.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
add me to the petition, please!
Chet Dillfy
Political Columnist
Handbook Magazine
July 8th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I organized the Educational Initiative at the 2008 Austin Black tie but have been denied by HRC to hold another I.E. and have since participated in the protests at Houston and New Orleans.
We have been denied the opportunity to hold a I.E. at the Dallas Black Tie so we are formulating a plan for a event, possibly emulating the San Francisco Left Out.
We would be honored and benefit immensely if we could connect with people from San Francisco’s Left Out.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:46 am
true equality
July 9th, 2008 at 7:22 am
It’s the Tenacity, Persistence, Fortitude and Solidarity that’s perennial, in those of us who refuse to give up in our pursuit for Unequivocal Equality, & Basic Human Civil Rights.
~Dr. Mekah Gordon
Pioneering, Frontier Renaissance Woman & Visionary
July 9th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Sign Me Up Too!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:21 am
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
–E.E. Cummings
July 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I support the boycott. HRC is *not* TG friendly!
Dee - North Dakota
July 9th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Thank you for organizing this action!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I support this action.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:40 am
I fully support the boycott.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Add me to the signers too
July 10th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Please add my name to the list of people supporting the boycott.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I am the chairwoman of Transgender Advocacy and Service Center of San Diego County. I would like my name and the name of my organization added to the list of names on the petition, boycotting the fundraiser for HRC or any fundraiser for HRC till such time they give their full support to an inclusive ENDA.
Thank You,
Joselyn Harris
July 10th, 2008 at 10:29 am
This issue clearly exemplifies Fannie Lou Hamer’s quote: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” Thanks, Robert, for organizing this!
July 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
In Unity!
July 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Count me in! We have tried to educate the HRC. They do not want to listen to the coolest heads who have tried to be diplomatic. It seems that diplomacy has failed and that we must move on to sanctions. Perhaps the only thing the HRC will understand is a loss of fiscal support. Joe and Luna still dissemble and minimize their position in the press, which is a ongoing insult to all of us. I am ready to be Left Out in SF!
July 10th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
For Equality and Justice.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I’M IN SUPPORT OF THE HRC SF GALA DINNER BOYCOTT
July 10th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Can’t spell LGBT with HRC!!! I’m in support of boycotting HRC’s SF Gala Dinner!!
July 10th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Is anyone else going to dress for the boycott? I have a sequined number I’ve been just dying to wear to some special event.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Count me in! HRC doesn’t have a vision of community; it has a vision of exclusivity. I hammered on their door since the mid-1990s, and in 2004 was one of 7 people brought inside to present the case for including trans people in ENDA. The HRC board voted then never to support a non-inclusive ENDA, yet when their position was challenged in October 2007, they caved in and decided that being in Barney Frank’s inner circle was more important than keeping their word or displaying integrity. Being “special” is apparently more important to HRC’s leaders than being principled. I know they’ve worked hard to convince themselves that their actions were the “right strategy,” and they’re doing what they can to indicate that they’re still supportive of trans people and working on trans issues. But they’ll have to do a lot more to earn my trust than make overtures toward trans rights and half-hearted private apologies to trans community leaders, hoping that we’ll be flattered by their attention and go out and do the clean-up for them: they’ll have to make a public apology to EVERYONE, and they’ll have to demonstrate that they understand what they did wrong, not just say they “mis-spoke.”
July 10th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I support transgender rights and I support the boycott of the HRC dinner!
July 10th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I sign this in support of Kai Sorro….and all who are left out by HRC….what a disappointment they are.
If Austin has a boycott, I shall be there!
July 10th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I support the boycott. HRC has not committed to standing firm on an inclusive ENDA for the next Congress. HRC continues to make excuses about its past decisions to exclude trans people from the ENDA. Until they commit unequivocally to an inclusive ENDA, and follow through with action, they will continue to hear angry denunciations from the community they claim to serve.
Nathan Purkiss
Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
July 10th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Please add my name to the boycott petition.
Nakhter Ahad
July 10th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
i’m insupport of the people who are against this gala
July 11th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Add my name to the boycott petition please.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Please add my name to the boycott petition.
Simon Aronoff
July 11th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Please add my name to the boycott petition.
Peace,
Meghan Karels
July 11th, 2008 at 7:09 am
I am here to support you guys!
July 11th, 2008 at 7:10 am
i will not support this organization until they apologize
July 11th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Thanks Robert. Please add my name. I support the boycott.
Eric Mar
July 11th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Robert Please add my name to the petition. Connie O’Connor
July 11th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Robert Please add my name to the petition. Connie O’Connor
July 11th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Thanks so much Robert…I have supported the boycott from the beginning and will continue to fight for an inclusive ENDA. LS
July 11th, 2008 at 9:45 am
only united will we never be defeated
July 11th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Boycott the HRC dinner!
July 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Add my name to the petition.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Thanks for organizing this! I’ll be there with a bunch of fierce QPOCs!
Luis Gutierrez-Mock
Creator, Mixed Fruit Productions
July 11th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Boycott Baby!!!
July 11th, 2008 at 10:35 am
I’m suprised at the HRC.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I will not support an organization that says it is for human rights and then excludes people. Shame on the HRC. Won’t see me at any of their functions, nor will I donate to them!
July 11th, 2008 at 11:54 am
I support the boycott.
Linda Post
July 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am
please add my name to the petition: Peter Gallotta
it’s time for us queer people in this country to regain control over our movement and not leave it up to bloated , cash-cow organizations that disregard our interests and corporate-ize our struggle. A PEOPLE UNITED CAN NEVER BE DEFEATED.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Transgender and gender non-conforming folks are being killed in the streets, attacked in our homes, blocked from employment and housing, and marginalized even by those, like the HRC, who claim to be working for social justice. I fully support any organizing that interrupts HRC’s–and the mainstream Gay and Lesbian movement’s transphobia.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Add my name to the petition.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
QueerToday.com
July 11th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
This is for my friends…
July 11th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
We Will Not Be Left Behind!
July 12th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Fighting for the rights of the “T” in LGBT (among other letters and identifications) is a fight for everyone’s rights. I’m there.
July 12th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Please add my name to the petition.
July 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Trangender and homosexuality are but two points on the broad spectrum of healthy human sexuality. We must stand together.
July 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I remember when this group refused to include lesbians and people with HIV/AIDS in their campaigns. There is no excuse for excluding the founders of our movement for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender and Intersex liberation. Our transgender brothers and sisters put their lives on the line during the historic Stonewall Rebellion. Our struggle must champion and include up front the fight for transgender human rights.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I personally support the boycott.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Add my name to the petition. We will not be left behind.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Please add my name to the petition as both an individual and SF TEAM Co-Chair. It is time they stop treating us as if we are mutants. I don’t recall auditioning for a remake of the “X-Men” movie & I refuse to be treated as such. We must remain united as human beings.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Proud PFLG Mom
July 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Please add my name to the list, and I will be there at 5pm on the 26th! and will bring more people from my community.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Please add my name. This is so very important.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
please add my name to the list- my rights mean less when they are at the expense of my trans bf- equal rights are not selective and exclusionary- please aff my name to the petition
July 14th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Boycott the Benedictorial Human Rigths Campaign. Give your money only to organizations that support transgender inclusion along with GLB. Spend HRC money but do not give them money. Money talks bulls**t walks.
Thank You,
Josephine P Tittsworth,LMSW,BSW,AA
University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work Ph.D. Student
http://www.sw.uh.edu/documents/phdprogram/doctoralcvs/jtittsworth.pdf
SGA Social Work Senator
NTAC Board of Directors, Research Chair
PFLAG-TNET Board of Directors, West Sector Coordinator
U of H Social Work Alumni Board of Directors
“If you can not find opportunity, create opportunity.” J P Tittsworth
“Social change; Baby steps become monster leaps.” J P Tittsworth
“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance
towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to
be observed from each new vantage point.”- Harold B. Melchart
I survived “Sundays at Milby Park 1971″
July 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Please add my name. So sick of these losers.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
For their ENDA “victory” the HRC likes to boast. But what do they know about helping us folks?
They’ll fight for your rights if your Rich, White, and Male. So how does that ever make justice prevail?
I don’t like to rip on some of my people, But if we can’t speak the truth, how we gonna get equal?
Other than them everyone stood tall, United ENDA, one and all.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I am totally disgusted with HRC and their refusal to admit their wrongs. They think they are so above the rest of the GBLT community. They gotten way to friendly with the polititions in Washington so comfortable they become one of them lieing to their own community. They need to rmemember that we got to were we are now because we all have been fighting and standing together. We need each other thats the whole reason we are one community. Standing together is we the only way we will ever get our rights as Americans. Not sucking up to the polititions in washington and not by selling out our own. Discrimination effects us all not elists gay part of our community.
Brandi Parker
SWVA Rep
Equality Va
July 14th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
The focus should never change if we are to be an inclusion to the total community nationally! “Leave no one left behind, it is all or no one!” Why should we have to go back in 20 years to add another addition of a diverse segment of the overall community? Why do we have to take the chance in leaving a segment out and risk countless lives because some diverse persons have not obtained guaranteed protective rights in the workplace or society in general? HRC has not completed what it has set out to do, ever, never!
July 14th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Please add me to this petition.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Please add me to this petition.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
sign me on the petition.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I support the HRC dinner boycott!
July 15th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I’m in!
July 16th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Please add my name to the petition.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:59 am
We are family.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:42 am
We must end ALL discrimination.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:15 am
i am a transexual pre op am on the estrogen patch take testosterone blockers see an endo; also a therapist and would like to say, there r so many close minded people especially in my family and kentucky ,i am not gay that is a, choice not mine it is not my fault i was born this way but will make the best of it thank u very much, anna
July 16th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I say that DISCRIMINATION is Nothing but a HATE CRIME! Wake UP FOLKS, this is the 21st Century and this must NEVER be Tolerated ever again!
Please sign this petition to send a very important message to the WORLD!
Please “Vow to Vote NO on the Marriage BAN!”
Love should NEVER be banned by anyone at anytime!
Please help End the War on Medical Cannabis throughout America too! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
THANKS!
Jah Love,
the Holy Hemptress
July 16th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Yes ,please do count me in. Now and forever!
July 17th, 2008 at 8:09 am
signing the petition
July 17th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Add my name to the list
July 17th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I support the boycott.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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July 18th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
This I believe.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Our history will be what we make it.
Count me in.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Please add my name to the list of signers. When will inclusiveness be for EVERYONE?
Naomi O’Keefe
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
July 19th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I cannot accept a political logic that would exclude transgender people for the expediency of helping gay and lesbian individuals.
July 20th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Please add my name — I will be there and will try to bring others.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Please sign my name to the petition.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
I support
July 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Many thanks to Robert Haaland for his courageous leadership.
July 21st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Radical Women endorses the LeftOut Party!
For Trans inclusion in ENDA!
July 21st, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Please add my name to the petition.
One of the most disgusting things I experienced at this year’s “Pride” celebration was a young woman holding a bucket asking me to give money for “equality”, meaning the HRC. It’s ironic that HRC, which has plenty of money, would be asking an under-employed (under-housed, under-fed) transguy for extra cash. They should be spending their money on US! The best places in the country for transfolk still have rampant unemployment, discrimination on all levels, not to mention the actual physical assaults and murders of transgender people, as well as of “femme” gays and “butch” lesbians. The HRC is all about increasing the rights of those who are least oppressed (and have the most money to give them.)
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Please add the TGI Justice Project & the TIP Committee to the list.
Thanks!
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Until it is truly inclusive, HRC does not speak for me.
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Add my name please…..I thought I had already.
Theresa Sparks
President, San Francisco Police Commission
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I’m standing with my transgender brothers and sisters and speaking out against HRC. HRC doesn’t speak for me!
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I can’t wait to stand up against the HRC! I am 100% supportive. Thanks for putting it together!
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
!!!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Goodness gracious! So excited to support this organizing against a corporate faux-progressive monster!
July 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am
I will be there with you standing up against the HRC this Saturday!
July 24th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Dear Nancy Pelosi,
I$ Gender on the Menu?
Thank you Pride at Work for organizing the HRC store protest and City Hall ENDA solidarity gathering last fall, and thanks for keeping up the good work!
July 24th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
please add my name to the petition
July 24th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Brian Wallace
July 24th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Am I not human too?
July 25th, 2008 at 8:01 am
HRC should either speak for the entire LGBT community, or stop saying that they do.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:20 am
See You Saturday!
July 25th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Know your rights!!
July 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Transgender equality now and forever.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Add my name to the petition: Joie de Vivre, drag performer
July 25th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Hi Robert, please add my name to the petition. Looking forward to tommorow!
July 26th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Please add my name to the petition, JoAnna Erassarret
July 26th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
See you all at the real equal rights party outside the St. Francis
July 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I would be thrilled to have my name accompany your cause. Too many people are ignored through history, and different groups have had to wait years and years for their causes to finally take center stage. Its about time that we take a stand to have EVERYONE protected, and not just the group on the center stage. I proudly stand for human rights for all.