Dan Choi to HRC: You're Useless, You're Irrelevant, And You Can Go F___ Yourselves
http://www.queerty.com/dan-choi-to-hrc-youre-useless-youre-irrelevant-and-you-can-go-->-bleeped-<--yourselves-20100322/If one thing is clear from last week's Dan Choi-Get Equal events, it's that the new groundswell of Active Activism is at war with Gay Inc.'s way of doing things. As Choi and Robin McGehee have shown, this is a war for equal rights. And while the Human Rights Campaign thought it would use Choi as just another puppet in its self-serving mission of soft, ineffective tactics, the Army lieutenant just made the bold step of telling them to f___ off.
What HRC is engaged in is Inactive Activism. Lots of "pretty pleases" and "sir would you permit mes." As Choi tells Newsweek: "Why not now? Within the gay community so many leaders want acceptance from polite society. I think there's been a betrayal of what is down inside of us in order to achieve what looks popular, what look enviable. The movement seems to be centered around how to become an elite. There is a deep schism [in the gay-rights movement], everyone knows this. But this shouldn't be about which group has better branding. There is a tremor right now in every gay and transgender youth that these groups are not grasping.
