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human rights campaigns  

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  • With more 700,000 members and supporters in 2007, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) political advocacy organization within the United States. Since its foundation in 1980, the HRC has advocated for LGBT individuals through education, organization of grassroots movements, funding political candidates, and lobbying at the state and federal levels to secure equal rights and recognition of individuals regardless of sexual and gender orientations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Human Rights Campaign]

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