Once Again HRC-Keep Your Moneygrubbing Mitts Off Our TDOR
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2008/11/once-again-hrc-keep-your-moneygrubbing.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2008/11/once-again-hrc-keep-your-moneygrubbing.html)
Monica Roberts
11/19/2008
I've been advised that the Homosexual Rights Corporation is sponsoring TDOR events in Columbus and Cincinnati, OH.
Those events are supposed to be FUBU productions for us to memorialize our dead with our allies.
While there's some concern in the Dallas-Fort Worth transgender community about HRC's local Federal Club chapter sponsoring an event on the same night and time as the TDOR observances in Dallas and Fort Worth that have been publicized for weeks, let's get real for a minute.
The people who attend that event aren't likely to have compassion for our community, so don't sweat it. Handle your business and honor our people with class and dignity. You'll also know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the peeps who do show up for the DFW events are allies and friends who truly care about the community, not backstabbing sellouts.
According to the TDOR website (http://www.transgenderdor.org/), the organization TransOhio (http://www.transohio.org/) seems to behind the Columbus TDOR. They list, on their blog (http://transohio.blogspot.com/), the following sponsors: TransOhio, Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization (BRAVO), OSU Multi-Cultural Center, Equality Ohio, PFLAG-Columbus, Gender Dysphoria Program of Central Ohio, Stonewall Columbus, The Crystal Club, Kaleidoscope Youth Center (KYC-Ohio), Speak OUT, King Avenue United Methodist Church, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), OSU GLBT Alumni Association, and Delaware Gay Straight Christian Alliance . With so many sponsors, I wonder why the felt the need to accept HRC money?
The Cincinnati event is not listed on the TDOR site, so I am not sure who is behind it. The HRC website (http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/actioncenter/events/cincytdor/details.tcl), however, seems to indicate that they are taking credit for it. I wonder why they didn't want to cooperate with the international TDOR site?