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The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.

HRC seeks to improve the lives of LGBT Americans by advocating for equal rights and benefits in the workplace, ensuring families are treated equally under the law and increasing public support among all Americans through innovative advocacy, education and outreach programs. HRC works to secure equal rights for LGBT individuals and families at the federal and state levels by lobbying elected officials, mobilizing grassroots supporters, educating Americans, investing strategically to elect fair-minded officials and partnering with other LGBT organizations.

ISSUES: AGING
Same-sex couples face tremendous financial burdens in old age due to the denial of their right to marry, according to the Cost of Marriage Inequality to GLB Seniors report published by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in Feb. 2004. The greatest risks are to “widows” and “widowers” who are discriminated against in three significant ways – as lifelong relationships are dismissed as not having been families under law.

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