I have not been fan of HRC either, over the years. They were a big respectability politics player, and I think some of their corporate accountability indices remain troubling. In my view, inertia has made them too cozy with U.S. corporations, whom they tend to praise for rather mundane reasons.

But today's HRC is not the HRC of the past. Their current president, Kelley Robinson, is a queer-identifying Black woman married to a woman. She came to HRC after a long history of Planned Parenthood activism.

Kelley isn't just a name on the letterhead, either. She's actively in charge of the group, which has been surprisingly proactive this year in terms of responding to anti-queer laws and politicking.

They still aren't my favorite queer activist group by any measure, but they've come a long way.

I attended a digital press conference with them a couple weeks ago, and most of the staff who spoke were women, trans people, or people of color.

That would have been unimaginable from HRC even a few years ago. So, credit where credit is due, I guess. Though I'm still not a member. I remember their days of respectability politics all too well.