The Human Rights Campaign‘s board of directors unanimously endorsed Hillary Clinton for President this week in recognition of “her robust agenda for advancing LGBT equality, strong record, and ability to win in November.”
Clinton will publicly accept the endorsement at an event in Des Moines, Iowa on Sunday, January 24, with HRC President Chad Griffin and HRC members and supporters. The event comes just eight days before Iowa’s Feb. 1 caucuses. (New Hampshire voters hit the polls on Feb. 9; Massachusetts’ and Vermont’s on “Super Tuesday,” March 1; Maine Democrats on March 6; and Rhode Island’s and Connecticut’s, April 26.)
“Hillary Clinton is fighting to advance LGBT equality across our nation and throughout the world,” said the HRC’s president in a Jan. 19 press release. “We are proud to endorse Hillary Clinton for president, and believe that she is the champion we can count on in November—and every day she occupies the Oval Office.”
HRC’s press release went on to state:
Secretary Clinton has made LGBT equality a pillar of her campaign and recently unveiled the most robust and ambitious LGBT plan any candidate for president has ever laid out. She has vowed to fight for the Equality Act—a bill that would finally offer explicit, clear, and permanent non-discrimination protections for LGBT people at the federal level—and her detailed LGBT policy platform specifically calls for dropping the ban on open transgender military service, outlawing dangerous “conversion therapy” for minors, ending the epidemic of transgender violence, and supporting HIV prevention and affordable treatment, among other proposals that would advance equality and support the LGBT community.
Clinton also has a long record as a champion for LGBT rights both in the U.S. and, notably, around the globe. As Secretary of State, Clinton became the first in her position to robustly advocate for LGBT equality throughout the world, making a historic and forceful speech to the United Nations declaring that “gay rights are human rights.” In the Senate, she helped lead on bills to protect LGBT workers from employment discrimination, and had a strong record on key votes and legislation that mattered to LGBT Americans.
Voters can check out Hillary Clinton’s official LGBT agenda before we head to the primary polls.
