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HRCF

We used to give to the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF).

Years ago.

We went to their annual dinners in black tie and tux and applauded national and local speakers who eventually found the forum to be good campaigning fodder.

It was a way to feel the gay power that was on the ascendant. Pride.

The first dinner we went to was in the top floor of the old Hancock building in Boston. There were probably two hundred people.

Mayor Kevin White spoke and got an award.

How long has it been since Kevin left?

Kevin? No one even remembers that he was mayor!

It was pre-AIDS. So when? 1980?

Over the years the dinners got bigger, the awards started to get less political and more about who would show up with a little star power.

HRCF got bigger and bigger. They sold hats.

We see the bumper stickers out here all the time.

Our last dinner was in a huge 'room' at the Boston Hynes Convention Center.

We quit giving.

It was obvious that the organization had become a self-powered ego machine.

We started giving to the local legal fund GLAD

We gave a lot. Our early seed money grew into the tree that bore the Massachusetts gay marriage decisions.

In the meantime HRCF has not sponsored or seen one piece of legislation that has passed. And that is through the Clinton era.

Andrew Sullivan has HRCF in his sights.

Judging HRCF.

I am the 'reader' who pointed him to the Charity Navigator link.

Labels: gay marriage, gay rights