Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on Wednesday debuted a new video ad featuring Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Jason Mraz supporting its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. [ Read more → ]

A group of 70 organizations is asking President Obama to build on his work against bullying in schools by endorsing legislation pending in Congress that would prohibit harassment of LGBT students. [ Read more → ]

The founder and president of a high-profile California-based LGBT rights group has been named as the new president of the Human Rights Campaign. HRC announced Friday that Chad Griffin, board president of the American Foundation of Equal Rights, will succeed Joe Solmonese as president. [ Read more → ]

The Obama campaign has tapped Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese for a position as a national co-chair to advocate for the president based on his work for the LGBT community and the country as a whole. [ Read more → ]

WASHINGTON – A broad coalition of more than 50 civil rights, labor, progressive, faith, student, health, legal, women’s, and LGBT organizations on Thursday announced support of the Respect for Marriage Act-- the bill to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that withholds federal... [ Read more → ]

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on Wednesday released an analysis of campaign disclosure reports -- made public today in Minnesota -- that reveal the National Organization for Marriage has launched an unprecedented effort to avoid disclosing individual donors as required by law. [ Read more → ]

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- A broad, statewide coalition of organizations, congregations, unions and business associations came together on Monday to announce the formation of Washington United for Marriage – a coalition that will work to obtain civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples in Washington state in 2012. [ Read more → ]

President Barack Obama on Saturday evening delivered the keynote address a gathering of more than 3,000 LGBT rights advocates at the Human Rights Campaign's 15th Annual HRC National Dinner, and called for repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and issued a sharp rebuke to GOP presidential hopefuls for not supporting gay troops. [ Read more → ]

Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, will announce his departure next Tuesday, reports Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend. [ Read more → ]

A Washington D.C. Human Rights Campaign store was vandalized in the late night or early hours of Wednesday by self-described “rowdy queers" who chose the date to coincide with the 42nd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. [ Read more → ]

Update: Gov. Andew Cuomo signs the Marriage Equality Act just hours after Senate's passage. Story here. Update: Complete coverage on marriage equality vote here. Statement from the Human Rights Campaign: In a history making, bipartisan vote, the New York Senate today passed a widely popular... [ Read more → ]

A New York state Senate vote on whether to legalize same-sex marriage has been pushed back at least another day as the debate continues over religious exemptions, while hundreds of demonstrators on Monday rallied for and against the measure at the state capitol in Albany. [ Read more → ]

You may have heard that actor Tracy Morgan (30 Rock) mentioned in his stand up act in Nashville, Tennessee, that if his son were gay, he would “pull out a knife and stab” him ... So what does Tracy Morgan have to do with the State of Montana? [ Read more → ]

Participating in the HRC's New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign, Michael Strahan, the record setting former defensive end of the New York Giants, has filmed a video with his fiancée Nicole Murphy announcing their support for marriage equality. [ Read more → ]

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Tracy Morgan’s anti-gay tirade, and said that until Morgan does something meaningful, his brand remains tarnished. [ Read more → ]

The Human Rights Campaign has released a public service announcement aimed at bringing awareness to bullying, through the experiences of bullied kids. [ Read more → ]

Actress and Grammy winner Vanessa Williams has voiced her support marriage equality, appearing in the latest "“New Yorkers for Marriage Equality” campaign by the HRC. [ Read more → ]

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s LGBT civil rights organization, on Thursday announced its endorsement of President Barack Obama for re-election. [ Read more → ]

The majority of Christian Americans oppose the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, favor protecting LGBT people from discrimination, and support anti-bullying laws according to new polling released today by the Human Rights Campaign. [ Read more → ]

Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue magazine, supports marriage equality. [ Read more → ]