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LGBTQ rights group Human Rights Campaign launches tour through mostly red states
NBC News ^ | July 28, 2025 | Brooke Sopelsa

Posted on 07/28/2025 3:29:14 PM PDT by fwdude

The Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, is taking its LGBTQ equality message on the road with a multicity tour focused on changing more hearts and minds, particularly in red states.

The “American Dreams Tour” will kick off Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, and travel to cities in predominantly Republican-led states through November. The tour’s goal, according to HRC, is to amplify LGBTQ people’s stories “at a time of rising political attacks and cultural erasure” and “celebrate the communities pushing back against hate and fighting for a future of equality for all.”

“For half a century, our movement has changed hearts and minds with our stories — Harvey Milk in the Castro, Pedro Zamora on the Real World, trans youth and parents coming forward in statehouses across the country. When people know who we really are, everything changes. This tour is about reclaiming that legacy,” Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. “We’re traveling to the places where harm is happening—and where hope is rising. We’re showing up for communities who’ve been told they don’t belong and reminding them, and the country, that they are the American dream.”

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Good luck to them. "Gay" fatigue is every bit as high as black fatigue and only getting worse. They'll only inflame people's sensibilities.
1 posted on 07/28/2025 3:29:14 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Degeneracy on parade


2 posted on 07/28/2025 3:31:13 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: fwdude

traveling freakshow.

10 cents for a peek at the freaks in the tent was fairly common pre-ww2


3 posted on 07/28/2025 3:31:38 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: fwdude

They’re probably going to try to stage a couple of scenes.
Either invade a meeting of who they believe are conservatives, interview ‘random’ people on the street about LGBT++ issues,
dressing in very obvious Drag then invading wrong sex bathrooms to get reactions, or straight up making stuff up for public consumption.
The hardest parts may be when the general public tend to just ignore them, and keep on moving away.


4 posted on 07/28/2025 3:35:47 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: fwdude

We have seen enough of this.


5 posted on 07/28/2025 3:36:25 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: fwdude

“pushing back against hate”

It’s not hate, it is nausea from these people demanding that heterosexuals accept their perversions. Just leave us alone and don’t tell us what you are doing or expect us to say it is normal.


6 posted on 07/28/2025 3:38:08 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: sten

I have nothing against queers. But anybody who thinks LBTQXYZ is merely a variation of normal is as crazy as they are.


7 posted on 07/28/2025 3:41:35 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Were it not for Trump, woke would have been more devastating than all the horrors, wars and plagues.)
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To: fwdude

Referring to LGBTQ as “human rights” is like calling a black supremacist group as “diverse”. The left made it clear a long time ago that it’s not about tolerance of gay lifestyle. It’s about forced brainwashing even of kids.


8 posted on 07/28/2025 3:45:27 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: fwdude
The Alphabet People are annoying. Even the same sex couples are finding them wearying these days.

A lesbian couple that lives near by was asked why they did not fly the buggery banner for "pride month" and responded that they did not want to be associated with those freaks.

9 posted on 07/28/2025 3:51:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: fwdude

I suppose they have that right to be absurd.


10 posted on 07/28/2025 3:57:45 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Tell It Right
A word in front of something frequently negates the thing.

""Social Justice"

"Racial Justice"

Gender Equity"

"Economic Justice"

To name just a few.....

11 posted on 07/28/2025 4:01:27 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: SharpRightTurn

What i feel towards those promoting sexual mutilation could be hate.


12 posted on 07/28/2025 4:01:50 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: blackdog

Military Justice ...


13 posted on 07/28/2025 4:05:45 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: fwdude

They will bring their Town Hall attendees with them to pretend to be conservative Republicans angry at the GOP.


14 posted on 07/28/2025 4:07:12 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: mrmeyer

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES


15 posted on 07/28/2025 4:07:18 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: fwdude

I don’t want any part of their perversions.


16 posted on 07/28/2025 4:13:16 PM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: fwdude; mrmeyer; lee martell; Tell It Right; SharpRightTurn; Harmless Teddy Bear

The opening for LGBTQ + whatever derives from the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Persistent activism over half a century enabled ubiquitous infiltration of academia, psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. The DSM became a refuge for accommodating social contagions, promoting drug marketing strategies, and posting political manifestos. The remaining true science simply became an inert medium for these active ingredients. This approach carried over into other sexual disorders and allowed medical doctors to consider progressive/liberal ideological theories of social justice as a priority for diagnosis and choosing treatments. It enabled politicians to accumulate a useful constituency.


17 posted on 07/28/2025 4:16:57 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: fwdude

Maybe they can send that 6’ 4” chick with the Adam’s Apple to convince us that he’s a woman.


18 posted on 07/28/2025 4:18:13 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Gay State Conservative

...That 6’4” chick with the Adam’s Apple..
the one who sounds like John Wayne reading a Cowboy script.


19 posted on 07/28/2025 4:29:50 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: fwdude

Tour Dates, in case anyfreeper is interested.

Columbus, OH
July 30-31, 2025
Launching the tour by honoring Ohio’s LGBTQ+ legacy and confronting political backlash and HIV care barriers.

las vegas, nv
August 23, 2025
Elevating national visibility through coalition-building with LGBTQ+ and healthcare leaders.

washington, dc
September 13, 2025
Spotlighting policy change during HRC’s National Dinner and Equality Convention.

dallas, tx
September 19-20, 2025
Organizing at the epicenter of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, focused on trans justice and health access.

atlanta, Ga
October 11-12, 2025
Aligning with Atlanta Pride, this stop amplifies LGBTQ+ leadership and community-led care models.

nashville, tn
October 15-16, 2025
Celebrating the stories and culture of HBCUs with a focus on youth engagement and HIV prevention.


20 posted on 07/28/2025 4:31:28 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (Donald J Trump: OF the People FOR the People WITH the People)
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