Jan 10, 2008Quickie Link: Tense Meeting with HRC over ENDA
By vanrozenheim
(USA) - The Transgender president of the San Francisco Police Commission bluntly returned the Equality Award she received from the Human Rights Campaign during what was described as a tense meeting last weekend between members of the Bay Area trans community and HRC President Joe Solmonese. "It no longer symbolized equality to me," Commission President Theresa Sparks told the Bay Area Reporter upon exiting the two-hour meeting, held January 5 at the LGBT Community Center. "It's a matter of their integrity and not following through and my own integrity." Sparks said that she could no longer stand to even look at the etched glass award when it was on her credenza. She received the award in 2004.
