They still refuse to be accountable in any serious way. Here’s the editor of the Southern Voice, the major gay paper in Atlanta:
For our article interviewing [Human Rights Campaign president Joe] Solmonese, SoVo asked HRC a simple question about the HRC Atlanta Dinner: How much money did last year’s event raise?
They refused to tell us numbers from the 2006 dinner, although we previously reported that the 2005 event grossed about $200,000.
There are three possible reasons why HRC doesn’t want to tell Atlanta readers how much money we raised for the group at last year’s dinner: the event didn’t raise enough money to make it worth the expense of putting it on, the event raised so much money that HRC fears we’ll decide we should keep some of it here to devote to local causes, or they just don’t take our questions very seriously.
The usual secrecy and lack of accountability. A letter writer in the Washington Blade piles on today:
HRC remains an organization directed and led by a cabal of individuals who continue to use it, and the millions of dollars entrusted to it by its supporters, to promote themselves and their own agendas…
Perhaps it is time that HRC recognize that not everyone is fooled by its glossy, self-promotional branding efforts and that members of the gay community are beginning to seek some accountability.
Until they start answering questions posed by the media, stop giving them your money.
The Dish 