Equal Rep.com/Nation-Wide Campaign to Create a New Secretary of GLBT Affairs. Or, How To Silence Queers and Still Love the Idea of Democracy.
Filed by: Yasmin Nair
January 18, 2009 2:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/nation-wide_campaign_campaign_to_create.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/nation-wide_campaign_campaign_to_create.php)
Oh, this is too amusing for words.
Following, perhaps, on the heels of Mary Frances Berry's idea that we should just dump the Commission on Civil Rights in favour of a new organisation that will focus first on, yup, you guessed it, GLT (no B, no Q) issues comes this new group that you can find on Facebook.
The recently formed group calls itself the Nation-Wide Campaign to Create a New Secretary of GLBT Affairs. It also has a website, http://www.equalrep.com/. (http://www.equalrep.com/.) I was invited, like thousands of others, but ignored it as just another FB rumbling. I was contacted by people who told me that any critique was being quickly taken down, which seems to contradict the idea of a Democratic-politics-with-a-capital-D that the group claims to believe in (since it's so clearly invested in conventional electoral politics).