The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization – today announced that Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will be featured speakers at its upcoming annual National Dinner event, which will be held in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, October 29th.
The Vice President and the Speaker join other nationally renowned speakers, including Incoming HRC President Kelley Robinson and honorees Sheryl Lee Ralph & “A League of Their Own” stars Abbi Jacobson & Chanté Adams. HRC will also welcome special guests Lisa Ann Walter, Maybelle Blair, Dyllón Burnside, George Takei, Brian Michael Smith, Robin De Jesús Jess, Nicole Maines, Ian Alexander, Rafael Silva, Dana Goldberg, and performances from Robin S., Shea Diamond, and DJ Nico Craig.
This year’s national dinner is the first in-person dinner since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the first under the leadership of HRC’s recently announced Incoming President Kelley Robinson. HRC will honor Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph with the National Ally for Equality Award, and the hit Amazon series “A League of Their Own” with the National Visibility award. Stars Abbi Jacobson and Chanté Adams will accept the award on behalf of the show. In addition, Robinson will deliver remarks about her leadership mandate: to fight with the LGBTQ+ community for full equality and liberation for all, without exception and to deepen HRC’s commitment to trans justice, racial justice, and reproductive justice.
