[This is the largest LGBTQ advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the United States.]
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[What is the HRC? Or Human Rights Campaign]
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) was first founded in 1980 as a political action committee. In 1995, the group restructured and became the organization we know today (and also when they revealed their new logo, the yellow and blue equal sign). The HRC has adopted many programs and projects over the years that help to build awareness and acceptance for LGBTQ individuals, such as National Coming Out Day, the Workplace Project, the Family Project, and the "Equality Rocks" fundraising concert in April of 2000. In addition to social and political initiatives, the HRC provides resources on coming out, transgender issues, LGBTQ-related healthcare topics, and workplace issued faced by LGBTQ people.
As if that weren't enough, the HRC also creates, publishes, and distributes Equality Magazine, the largest LGBT magazine in the country.
Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope by Jodie Patterson
Activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, Jodie Patterson, wrote this picture book about her transgender son's experience with identity and acceptance.
Visit our catalog for more titles featuring the fight for LGBTQ rights and social justice reform, like these:
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- Steal This Country: A Handbook for Resistance, Persistence, and Fixing Almost Everything by Alexandra Styron
- Rise Up! The Art of Protest by Jo Rippon
- Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights by Jamie Lawson
- My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism by Titania McGrath
- The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
