{"id":277966,"date":"2025-11-14T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=277966"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:30:38","slug":"human-rights-campaign-drops-weapons-manufacturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/video\/human-rights-campaign-drops-weapons-manufacturers-277966","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Campaign drops weapons manufacturers as corporate sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-article-kik\">HRC\u2019s divestment was a result of \u201cunrelenting organizing happening within LGBT2SQ+ communities\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Human Rights Campaign drops weapons manufacturers as corporate sponsors | Xtra Magazine\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xvpDuRSNh0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Human Rights Campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/11\/11\/human-rights-campaign-weapons-israel-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut its financial ties to weapons manufacturers<\/a> Northrop Grumman and RTX after a two-year-long organizing effort by LGBTQ2S+ activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up until last year, HRC listed Northrop Grumman as a \u201cPlatinum Partner,\u201d the organization\u2019s highest tier of corporate sponsorship. <a href=\"https:\/\/investigate.afsc.org\/company\/northrop-grumman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northrop Grumman supplies<\/a> the Israeli military with missile systems, fighter jets and other weapons while <a href=\"https:\/\/investigate.afsc.org\/company\/rtx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defence contractor RTX<\/a> supplies the military with bombs, missiles and other weapons systems, according to watchdog site Investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HRC is one of the largest and most prominent LGBTQ2S+ advocacy groups in the U.S. But organizers from groups like No Pride in Genocide have accused HRC of using the gay rights movement to obscure Israel\u2019s human rights violations in Gaza, <a href=\"https:\/\/prismreports.org\/2024\/02\/21\/no-pride-in-genocide-pinkwashing-pale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referring to it as \u201cpinkwashing.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S.-based grassroots organizing groups Gender Liberation Movement and Adalah Justice Project said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ68KFMkZf6\/?img_index=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HRC divesting from the two weapons suppliers<\/a> was a result of \u201cunrelenting organizing happening within LGBTQ2S+ communities\u201d including No Pride in Genocide, ACT UP New York and Writers Against the War on Gaza.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While HRC has now cut ties with Northrop Grumman and RTX, the organization stopped short of some of the organizers\u2019 demands: including committing to divest \u201cpermanently\u201d from any weapons manufacturers and publicly calling for an arms embargo on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end\">An HRC spokesperson told <em>The Intercept <\/em>that the organization has \u201cspoken out about the crisis \u2026 and how Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ2S+ hatred are globally linked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRC\u2019s divestment was a result of \u201cunrelenting organizing happening within LGBT2SQ+ 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