We are all the HRC

“Our (gay) leaders are no longer ‘the community.’ With the advent of the Internet and modern communications, we are all (the Human Rights Campaign). Pam Spaulding is HRC. Mike Signorile is HRC. Dan Savage is HRC. Joe Jervis is HRC. Jeremy Hooper is HRC. Andy Towle is HRC. The ‘Join the Impact’ kids are HRC. And even Rachel Maddow is HRC.

Our national organizations no longer have a monopoly on message or activism. And while the Obama administration and the DNC continue to control many of our leaders, our people become more angered by the day. … We have shown with this blog, and our new generation of gay leaders across the country have proven with their successful activism, that those who would stand in the way of our human rights cannot keep us silent by simply buying off our leaders. That they cannot forestall bad press, and the increasing ire of a core Democratic constituency, by simply keeping our traditional groups, and our representatives in Congress, at bay.”

–AMERICAblog’s John Aravosis, Jan. 9.

By Rex Wockner