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Mubarak Dahir is editor of the Express
Gay News, a publication affiliated with this paper, and can be reached at mdahir@expressgaynews.com
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By: MUBARAK DAHI COMMENTS
 
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less than its number
of total “members.”
But he refused to tell what that number was.
“We do know the current number of ‘active members,’”
Fisher told the Blade. “But we don’t publish it because our enemies
would love to know.”
Well, guess what, Mr. Fisher. I’m not an enemy of gay rights, and I’m
pretty curious to know, myself.
THE TRUTH IS, it matters less to me, and to most people, I suspect, what the
actual HRC membership number is than it does that the organization has deliberately
obfuscated the truth behind the numbers.
Most of us are not as politically naïve as the HRC would believe.
We understand the tremendous difficulty of lobbying Congress on gay rights,
particularly in an age of neo-conservatism in this country.
And, in the grand scheme of things, the size of an organization shouldn’t
be what determines support for the group from its constituents.
But HRC is not only a group that is apparently full of size queens, it’s
a group that lies about its size, too. And I hate being lied to.
Now, when I look at that T-shirt in my closet, rather than thinking about the
political impact of the message on the shirt, I feel a little taken.
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And I can’t help but wonder: What’s HRC really trying to sell us
these days?
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