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I wish Joe Solmonese would just go away. Mr. Solmonese has morphed into a true lightning rod of a public figure due to last year's ENDA debacle. Wherever he goes now, he's a reminder that the HRC flip-flopped horribly on basic civil rights legislation for all of their stated gender variant constituencies — constituencies which include [...]
I wish Joe Solmonese would just go away. Mr. Solmonese has morphed into a true lightning rod of a public figure due to last year's ENDA debacle. Wherever he goes now, he's a reminder that the HRC flip-flopped horribly on basic civil rights legislation for all of their stated gender variant constituencies -- constituencies which include transgender people. But he's not going away -- He's...
Transgendered people, too long marginalized in society and even within the GLBT community, has made enormous strides in recent years -- we want to continue that progress and translate it into federal law.
... perils of excessive tolerance of Muslim minorities in Europe. But, at least he’s talking about it. Joe Solmonese, president of the largest gay political groups in the country, while ostensibly an advocate of gays, remains all but silent on an issue that Steyn, a leading conservative columnist, has addressed on more than one occasion. I guess the increase in gay-bashings in Europe just doesn’t...
... during this
historic fight to preserve marriage equality in California," said HRC
President Joe Solmonese. "Mayor Villaraigosa has consistently shown that he
understands, as we do, that GLBT rights are civil rights and human rights.
We are grateful to have him as an ally as HRC continues its efforts to
ensure that gay and lesbian couples are treated equally under California
law."
When...
... during this historic fight to preserve
marriage equality in California," said HRC President Joe Solmonese. "We are
honored to have this opportunity to help preserve marriage rights for all,
and we thank our entire community for uniting together through their
support of and participation in our annual gala in the Bay Area."
On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court issued an historic...
... gay people, let alone transgender people." HRC defend its actions in a statement from President Joe Solmonese: "HRC's position is that we could not oppose - and, in fact, should support - legislation to provide crucial civil rights protections that would be brought to the House floor for a vote, even though we did not and, certainly, would not have chosen that course...At a time when our...
... and male body parts,' Carlson said. The slurs also targeted homosexuals, she said." HRC President Joe Solmonese on the first congressional hearings to educate members about gender identity issues . More on the hearings from Pam . International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: HIV/AIDS infection rates for drug users, prostitutes and gay men around the globe are on the rise...
... the 2007 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 990 forms for group, he finds that Executive Director Joe Solmonese has recently cracked the quarter-million mark and now takes home a salary of $259,096, causing Petrelis to observe: I wouldn’t have any problems with these salary levels, or how $37 million is flushed down Democratic sewers, if there were dozens of legislative and federal programmatic...
... violence is the exact thing that police officers are supposed to protect people from," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, in a written statement. "HRC is calling for a full criminal investigation and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law." Surveillance video of the incident shows an unidentified officer hitting Johnson several times with handcuffs wrapped...
... the Obama endorsement was communicated by an HRC college intern. The weekly message by HRC chief Joe Solmonese was likewise lukewarm, barely hiding his disappointment that candidate HRC wasn't the nominee:Although Senator Hillary Clinton will not be the nominee, her historic campaign inspired a nation. Before joining the Human Rights Campaign as president, I served as chief executive officer...
... late on Friday on which former HRC executive director Elizabeth Birch and current president Joe Solmonese participated, explaining Obama's 50 state strategy and urging Clinton supporters to rally behind the party. Obama also received the endorsement of the Human Rights Campaign over the weekend . More, AFTER THE JUMP ... ***OBAMA'S LETTER TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY*** I’m running for President...
(Sub-healine: HRC endorses Obama, see below.) Last evening the Obama campaign held a conference call with 1200 LGBT activists from around the country in order to update people on campaign plans moving forward. The first order of business was to...
... proud to throw our full support behind Senator Obama’s presidential campaign,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “Senator Obama has consistently shown that he understands, as we do, that, GLBT rights are civil rights, and human rights. Senator Obama has said that embracing ‘our gay brothers and sisters’ is true to Martin Luther King’s vision; I know that Senator Obama’s vision is one of...
... progress being made in Congress for our community," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. "With a fair-minded Congress and by working with the Caucus, we’ll move even closer to passage of a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act; the expansion of hate crimes legislation to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and support for the repeal...
