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World Pride Profile: Andrea Gillespie, from Huron to Human Rights

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At the corner of 17th Street and Rhode Island Avenue in downtown Washington, the headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign is a beacon.

As the largest LGBTQ-advocacy organization in the country, with its shining equality logo near the roof, its similarly styled flag flying above, there’s hardly another building in D.C.

that so clearly announces its presence as a safe space.If this mid-century office tower might be considered a factory, its assembly-line workers are churning out legislative action, policy pushes, community advocacy and all the other products one would associate with an iconic human-rights organization.

These products, however, aren’t merely domestic. HRC also does a thriving export business.“HRC invests in our global alumni network — made up of more than 200 LGBTQ+ leaders from over 100 countries — and convenes spaces for cross-regional and global learnings and strategy sharing, as well as builds deeper partnerships with global alumni on sustained advocacy engagement opportunities to leverage HRC’s connections with the United States Government, multilateral institutions, and the private sector,” reads the promotional guidance.

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