I absolutely think Michael Petrelis is right about IGLHRC recently - that the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission should have issued a statement at least on the portions of the U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights that deal with LGBT issues and HIV/AIDS-related incidents.
IGLHRC and its executive director, Paula Ettelbrick, would have gained more respect from the gay community worldwide by issuing a press release on the State Department's findings.
This only make Ettelbrick looks outdated and irrelevant to some of us. It is no wonder why IGLHRC and Ettelbrick have been getting rotten eggs from gay people of late. We need leaders who want to fight for our rights, not ones with so many excuses. Just publish the goddamn thing!
IGLHRC and its executive director, Paula Ettelbrick, would have gained more respect from the gay community worldwide by issuing a press release on the State Department's findings.
This only make Ettelbrick looks outdated and irrelevant to some of us. It is no wonder why IGLHRC and Ettelbrick have been getting rotten eggs from gay people of late. We need leaders who want to fight for our rights, not ones with so many excuses. Just publish the goddamn thing!
Well, I don't know what to say after getting a lot of grief for asking that IGLHRC be consistently pushing gay issues, and now reading your very kind words, except, thank you.
ReplyDeleteI don't even know you, but you seem very much in agreement with me that our global gay concerns, especially for our brothers and sisters worldwide, deserve fuller advocacy from IGLHRC.
You really must read the release from 2006 from IGLHRC on that year's report. It's at: http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/section.php?id=5&detail=616
Michael...we do what we have to do...and you are doing the right thing. Good for you.
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