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WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 21 2023 - Today, as leaders in the U.S. House and Senate plan to reintroduce the Equality Act - historic federal legislation that would ensure comprehensive nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people everywhere - Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson called for its swift and urgent passage, telling members of a Senate panel that LGBTQ+ people of the United States of America are living in a state of emergency. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people, Robinson said that HRC officially declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. for the first time in its more than 40-year history following an unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative assaults sweeping state houses this year.

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