Communication example

An example of communication by a social movement that I picked is the Human Rights Campaign website (hrc.org).  This means of communication by internet is vital to getting any word out these days and provides a reference point for information about the given subject.  Human Rights Campaign does a lot of good things, however I had some critiques of them before reading today's assignments and now I have the terms necessary to defend my argument.  While the Human Rights Campaign website is very clearly a "white" form of communication- they are proud of their information and make it known that they are the one's publishing it- which is completely important to maintaining loyalty and gaining a wider audience; I do not think that they are always consistent with what they convey as an organization to promote equal rights to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.  Their transgender agenda is.. really small and in comparison to the need for more push of not just things like ENDA, but just acceptance of ways of thinking outside the gender binary and the concept that gender is indeed fluid and is not innate according to whether you have a vagina or a penis or some of both- HRC may be considered failing their trans community.  In my opinion, when an organization gets as large as HRC, they become, if they weren't before, elitist and so mainstream that much of the grassroots concerns of "equal rights" gets lost in the messages.  For example, the poster child of hate crimes against LGBTQ persons is Matthew Shepard- really? the white, middle America, gay teenager with a REALLY nice mom and books and even plays surrounding this event.  What about hate crimes against trans individuals? lesbians? people of color in general? This is frustrating because they are the number one most popular organization for the LGBTQ community and well earned- they do do some great things for raising awareness and keeping in touch with their "targeted communication of integration" by claiming to unite all- I just don't see it. Also, who else is invisible? bisexuals. Just like so many other social movements- their claims get more narrow and more narrow, so that therefore those individuals who continually get pushed out of their line of upward movement are left behind- again. that isn't equal rights- that's using "equal rights" and "LGBTQ" as buzz words and using the all american, white boy image as one to "bring home" the notion that- hey america, this could be your kid.