As anti-LGBTQ legislation surges across the country, the Human Rights Campaign is hitting the road with a bold new campaign aimed at fighting back—not with fear, but with stories. The nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization announced the American Dreams Tour: Equality Across America—a multi-city effort to amplify queer voices, counter political disinformation, and re-energize a movement under siege. The tour kicked off July 30 in Columbus, Ohio, and will make stops in Las Vegas, D.C., Dallas, Atlanta, and Nashville through November. Additional events are planned for rural and suburban areas.
The campaign launched with a powerful video narrated by HRC President Kelley Robinson, fresh off maternity leave.
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Robinson called the tour
“a cultural intervention and a political necessity. We not only change hearts and minds, we shift the way that people behave, that they vote, that they advocate.”
The tour is part of HRC’s One Million Voices for Equality campaign, which includes storytelling training and community events. With 953 anti-trans bills introduced in 49 states this year—and 120 already enacted—Robinson says, “Equality cannot be conditional.”
