Following Clinton endorsement, the other HRC feels the Bern

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised supporters of the Human Rights Campaign in October “from one “HRC” to another” she’d stand up for LGBT rights.

Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign: The nation’s most influential LGBT lobby has thrown its support to Hillary Clinton.

Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Action Fund President, introduces Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at an endorsement event at Southern New Hampshire University Jan. 10 in Hooksett, New Hampshire, marking the first time the organization has ever given an endorsement in a primary race.

“Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights”, Clinton said in a clip released along with the announcement. And the stakes in this election couldn’t be higher.

As a senator, Sanders voted against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in 1993 and against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.

Sanders has long supported LGBT equality, Briggs said, citing Sanders support for civil unions in Vermont.

In a statement Tuesday, Clinton pledged to support the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include discrimination against LGBT people, she would support transgender people serving in the military, and would end the practice of gay “conversion therapy” on minors.

Clinton reacted to Sanders’ statement by saying, “I thought, boy I wish it were”. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wasn’t having it, according to the Washington Blade. The HRC lauded Clinton’s proposals, telling Mic at the time that Clinton’s plan would “address LGBT discrimination at the federal level, fight the epidemic of violence against transgender Americans, advance equality around the globe and more”. “Her spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, said that Ms. Dunham is ‘fully supportive of Hillary Clinton and her track record for protecting women, ‘ and that the description of her comments at the dinner party was a ‘total mischaracterization'”.

In a video recorded for the Human Rights Campaign in 2013, after she left her job as secretary of state, Clinton expressed support for same-sex marriage and said gays and lesbians are “full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship”.