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June 10, 2016 | Stephen Peters

New Emails Reveal North Carolina HB2 Author Compared LGBTQ Advocates to Taliban

June 7, 2016 | Ianthe Metzger

HRC Alabama Blasts Disgraced AL Chief Justice Roy Moore Over Latest Stall Tactics

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Alabama blasted disgraced Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for engaging in stall tactics to delay responding to charges by…

June 4, 2016 | Stephen Peters

Cyndi Lauper Meets With LGBTQ Youth in Raleigh on Impact of North Carolina’s Discriminatory HB2

RALEIGH, NC – Today, award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and LGBTQ equality advocate Cyndi Lauper met with LGBTQ youth at the LGBT Center of Raleigh to learn more about their lives,…

June 3, 2016 | HRC Staff

HRC Announces Sarah McBride & Nick Morrow to Join Communications Team

WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, named Sarah McBride as National Press Secretary for the…

June 3, 2016 | HRC Staff

HRC Officially Adopts Use of “LGBTQ” to Reflect Diversity of Own Community

“Queer” is a word with a complicated modern history – both used in a defiant chant originated by LGBTQ rights activists more than a quarter century ago to confront bigotry,…

June 2, 2016 | HRC Staff

HRC and Equality NC Grateful for Dead & Company’s $100,000 Commitment to Repeal HB2

HRC President Chad Griffin cites generous support from the band, which includes the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and singer John Mayer

June 1, 2016 | Ianthe Metzger

BREAKING: Massachusetts House Advances Bill Extending Crucial Protections to Transgender Community

Legislation prohibits discrimination against transgender people in public accommodations including parks, restaurants, shops, and libraries

May 26, 2016 | Ianthe Metzger

HRC Calls on Republican Leadership to Condemn Lawmaker's Attacks on LGBT People as "Worthy of Death"

WASHINGTON, DC -- HRC Senior Vice President of Policy and Political Affairs JoDee Winterhof issued the following statement after media reports that Georgia Republican Representative Rick Allen opened a conference…

May 26, 2016 | Elliott Kozuch

Leaders from Aon, Cummins and Alaska Airlines Join 200+ Business Leaders Opposed to HB2

Washington -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC announced that executives from Alaska Airlines, Aon plc., BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Cummins Inc., Hunter Douglas Inc., Leidos, RSM US…