The Dork has a Point…

Posted by BoShuff on September 1st, 2009 filed in Ohio, Seeking Quality, Uncategorized, personal

In response to my last post, Chris over at Law Dork called me out a bit on smacking national orgs for not having the same messaging as Top Chef.

Really, Bo, your anti-org position is verging a bit off-course. What Tom Colicchio said has been said about a thousand times by HRC, Freedom to Marry, GLAD, GLAAD, Lambda Legal, the ACLU, NCLR and so on …

He has a point.

My comments should have been refined a bit more. I didn’t research all of those sites when I made my post. Honestly, I still haven’t. I believe to be true that each of the sentiments expressed on Tom Colicchio’s Top Chef Blog have been said before by many of the people involved in the LGBT movement. The point I was attempting to make was that I hadn’t seen or heard it put together quite that way before, and it rang true with me. So I may have over presented it a bit.

However, Chris also mentions an “anti-org position.” This does not exist.

My criticisms of organizations that represent me do not come from a place of being anti-org. I am a paid member of several LGBT organizations and serve on the campaign board of The Victory Fund. I whole heartedly will support and advocate on behalf of organizations that I believe to be effective. I also criticize and critique those organizations that are not.  It is sort of my thoughts that organizations do enough tooting of their own horns; it’s the constructive criticism that is severely lacking.