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Our thanks to the Dinner Sub-Committee for an amazing 2009 HRC Los Angeles Dinner and Hero Awards!! Our appreciation to the attendees, sponsors, volunteers, speakers and honorees....and especially to co-chairs Parker Williams and Kelsey Bray.   See the blog as it occured.

View Speeches on YouTube:

- Joe Solmonese, President of HRC.

- Dianne Feinstein, US Senator from California.

- Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP.

- Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles.

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Over the years, the GLBT community has suffered some pretty exhausting hits. Just this past election, the passage of Proposition 8 shook us to our core. It humbled our hearts as well as our faith in democracy. But it’s amazing what a good wake-up call can do. Case in point: the 2009 Human Rights Campaign Hero Awards. Read More »

3/6/2009

LOS ANGELES – The Human Rights Campaign, the
nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender political
organization, today announced five E-Hero Award finalist videos which
will be screened at the HRC Los Angeles Gala and Hero Awards on March
14. Guests at the gala will vote via live text messaging on their cell
phones to choose the top online video of 2008 from the finalists. 
Members of the community may also vote for their favorite video online
at www.hrcladinner.com/ehero/index.php. Online votes and texts will be added to votes taken at the gala, and the E-Hero Award winner will be announced at the end of the gala. 

“We believe the finalists represent the most moving, inspiring and
entertaining of LGBT Web videos of the past year,” said event co-chair
Kelsey Bray. “We are very excited about this opportunity to showcase
and honor these videos that have had an undeniable impact on the
community.”

The E-Hero Award is sponsored by AT & T. Read More »

Over 300 volunteers and staff of HRC gathered on Capitol Hill last week, including a strong delegation from Los Angeles, to appeal to elected officials to co-sponsor and support important pieces of federal legislation: The Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the fully-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), the Tax Equity for Domestic Partner and Health P Read More »