Pro-Palestine protesters rally against Human Rights Campaign dinner featuring Tim Walz
"Queers love Palestine! HRC loves the war machine!"
Protesters rallied against the Human Rights Campaign dinner tonight featuring Tim Walz in DC to condemn their relationship with weapons manufacturers, which they say enable genocide.
"We're not interupting!" they chanted. "Pink washing is disgusting!"
Protesters put red paint on their hands to symbolize what they say is the Human Rights Campaign's support for the killing of Palestinians.
"HRC is using our name to pinkwash an administration committing genocide, burning children under rubble but those children are not human enough for the Human Rights campaign, shame!"
"We are here, we are queer! Zionists not welcome here!"
Protesters banged on the windows overlooking the escalator and lobby that HRC guests went through to get to the gala with Tim Walz.
Police stepped in, forcing them away from the glass.
A transgender Palestinian organizer spoke outside the HRC event: "The human beings being killed in Gaza now are not human enough for the Human Rights Campaign."
"Queer is not a synonym for LGBT" she explained. "It is a political positioning of our desires and genders as sexual and gender variant people in opposition to a normative that is colonial, that is misogynist, that is genocidal."
"Palestine is a queer issue."
Alex, who apparently had worked for the Human Rights Campaign, said that HRC was "dismissive" about internal concerns over their relationship with arms manufacturers.
She calls out Homonationalism, which she says Israel and HRC use to propagandize against Palestinians.
"Do you know who the biggest killers of LGBT Palestinians are? The bombs Israel is dropping on them every single day! Shame!"
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