The Latest Updates

July 6, 2017 | HRC Staff

HRC Foundation to Host Islamic Seminary Talk on Muslims and the LGBTQ Community

MECCA Institute and Muslims for Progressive Values will be hosting a talk on “Mecca Institute, Muslims and the LGBTQ Community.”

July 5, 2017 | HRC Staff

HRC to Trump: You Must Address Anti-LGBTQ Chechnya Crisis With Putin at G-20 Summit Meeting

HRC released a letter from HRC President Chad Griffin to President Donald Trump ahead of Trump’s scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit this week.

July 5, 2017 | Stephen Peters

HRC to Trump: You Must Address Chechen Anti-LGBTQ Crisis With Putin at G-20 Summit Meeting

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released a letter from HRC President Chad Griffin…

July 1, 2017 | HRC Staff

Welcoming Schools Completes National Facilitator Certification Training

HRC welcomed 22 participants from 16 states to HRC headquarters for four days of intensive training in the Welcoming Schools approach.

July 1, 2017 | HRC Staff

Global Innovator Organizes LGBTQ Film Festival in Sri Lanka

HRC Global Innovator Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, who participated in the inaugural Global Innovative Advocacy Summit in 2016, recently organized Abhimani, an international LGBTQ film festival in Sri Lanka for Colombo PRIDE…

June 30, 2017 | Stephen Peters

Pentagon Delays New Transgender-Inclusive Recruitment Policy by Six Months

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization — responded to Secretary of Defense James…

June 30, 2017 | HRC Staff

Trump's Federal Judicial Nominees’ Anti-LGBTQ Comments Are Deeply Alarming

John Bush and Damien Schiff refused to answer questions about their personal beliefs on these deeply important LGBTQ issues.

June 30, 2017 | HRC Staff

Senators Introduce Bipartisan Resolution Condemning Anti-LGBTQ Atrocities in Chechnya

Just days after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.Res.351, condemning the horrific persecution of gay and bisexual men in Chechnya, a bipartisan group has introduced an identical resolution in…

June 30, 2017 | HRC Staff

World Congress of Families Caribbean Meeting Underway

The notorious hate group World Congress of Families (WCF) began its fourth regional Caribbean conference in St. Johns Antigua.

June 30, 2017 | HRC Staff

ACA Repeal Would Devastate Alaska

Western Regional Field Organizer Christopher Cooke was recently in Anchorage, Alaska, to join coalition partners in urging Sen. Lisa Murkowski to oppose the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.