Tag: HRC

HRC’s Welcoming Schools Celebrates LGBTQ+ Inclusive Storytelling with launch of the Book of the Month Series

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, and its Welcoming Schools program has launched its first-ever Book of the Month series—an initiative designed to bring queer joy amid growing political attacks on books with LGBTQ+ characters and storylines.. Beginning last month through early 2026, the series will highlight a book each month, aiming to inspire people in both red and blue states to bring these stories into libraries, schools, community centers, and other youth-friendly spaces to push back against the erasure of queer books. The series…

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Future Business Success Requires Your Commitment to Workplace Inclusion

Stuart Mitchell

The US’ leading civil rights organizations, representing women, people of color, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ+ community, issued a call to action to Fortune 1000 executives and board members to remain steadfast in their commitments to workplace inclusion and the inherent risks in abandoning decades-long best practices. Signers on the letter include the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, NAACP, American Association of People with Disabilities, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, UnidosUS, National Women’s Law Center, National Urban League, the National Organization for Women, and other major civil rights organizations.…

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Record Number of Companies Participate in Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Brazilian LGBTQIA+ Workplace Equality Index; Impacts More Than 850,000 Employees

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s ‘HRC Equidade BR: Global Workplace Equality Program’ is the leading benchmarking survey and report recognizing employers in Brazil that have demonstrated a commitment to LGBTQIA+ equality by adopting crucial LGBTQIA+-inclusive policies and practices for their employees. Created in partnership with Instituto Mais Diversidade and the Forum de Empresas e Direitos LGBTI+, the third annual report names 79 organizations that earned the maximum score and were recognized with the 2024 HRC Foundation designation of “Best Places to Work for LGBTQIA+ People,” or in Brazil, “Melhores Empresas…

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HRC Launches Public Education Campaign – “We Show Up: Equality Wins” – To Inform And Mobilize Record-High 75 Million Equality Voters Nationwide

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group, is launching its 2024 public education and engagement campaign “We Show Up: Equality Wins” to reach a record-high 75 million identified Equality Voters nationwide. This campaign will not only work to defeat escalating anti-trans attacks, but to deliver major victories this November – including re-electing President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris and electing historic LGBTQ+ and pro-equality candidates down-the-ballot. HRC is a trusted messenger for these voters — in a recent poll HRC has a near 70% favorability…

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New HRC State Equality Index Shows Devastating Impact of Radical Anti-LGBTQ+ 2023 State Legislative Season

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), the education arm of the nation’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, in partnership with the Equality Federation, an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice that builds power in a network of state-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, released the newest edition of its State Equality Index (SEI), the most comprehensive survey of state-level commitment to LGBTQ+ equality. This year’s SEI comes as thirty-six state legislatures have already opened their sessions for the year, with many anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced. So far…

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