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With Apology, LGBT Rights Group Seeks To Avoid Reopening Old Wounds
After transgender and immigrant rights activists criticized exclusion from this past week's Supreme Court rally, the Human Rights Campaign apologizes. “We failed to live up to the high standard to which we hold ourselves accountable and we will strive to do better in the future,” HRC's vice president says.
posted on April 1, 2013 at 6:03pm EDT
Chris Geidner
BuzzFeed Staff
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign apologized Monday for treatment of transgender and immigration rights activists at the Supreme Court last week, days after the nation's largest LGBT group initially had sought to brush aside the criticisms.
HRC, which has been much celebrated on social media for its red marriage equality logo's takeover of Facebook, found itself the subject of scrutiny on Tumblr and YouTube for what many saw as marginalizing transgender people and LGBT immigrants.
A Tumblr post since deleted (but shown below) detailed that transgender rights activists were asked repeatedly to remove a flag supporting transgender rights from behind the podium, a fact confirmed to BuzzFeed by multiple people. Additionally, as detailed at YouTube, an undocumented immigrant was asked to remove information about his immigration status from the speech he gave at the rally.
Although HRC initially brushed off the concerns raised in the Tumblr post, the group's vice president referenced both incidents in an apology Monday.
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donate several times a year.
I'm about to give the organization a full on raft of shit for this. Right now my inbox is full of HRC emails asking for more money.
I won't give the HRC another cent until I am sure they are going to stop discriminating against transgenders.
It's LGBT, and the last thing we need in the LGBT rights movement is discrimination toward our own family.
I'm so very sad to see this happen.
