The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) collaborates with artists and musicians to introduce HRC to new communities and audiences, many for the first time, who are just waiting to learn how they can join HRC’s fight for LGBTQ+ equality. Each Artist x HRC Collaboration product is produced in a limited quantity and only sold for a short time.
Sam Kirk
Latinx Heritage Month2022
To celebrate Latinx Heritage Month, HRC worked with Sam Kirk, who is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist who identifies as a biracial, queer woman. Her artwork explores the intersection of culture and identity politics while encompassing a call to celebrate differences and enact change. Sam designed a piece titled “Orgulloso” to honor the intersection of her Latinx heritage and her queerness.
Nina Keturah Calhoun
Juneteenth2022
Nia Keturah Calhoun's original art focused on the beauty of the Black experience with illustrations of family members, cultural symbols, and Black icons. Calhoun included phrases from Queer Ball culture that celebrated intersectional freedom.
Lehuauakea
AANHPI Heritage Month2022
Lehuauakea's original art, No Mākou Ke Ānuenue, means "the rainbow for us all" in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiian language) and was the inspiration for HRC’s Asian American Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage (AANHPI) Month tee collaboration.
Kendrick Daye
Black History Month2022
Kendrick Daye created this original art to celebrate liberation and Black queerness. Daye’s diverse approaches to making art include art direction, bespoke design, music, and most notably collage — both digital and analog.
Sonia Lazo
Latinx Heritage Month2021
Sonia Lazo’s original art was inspired by Quinceañera culture in Latinoamérica. Lazo created a character (with no specific gender) that celebrated themselves and was proud to live their truth.
Meg Emiko
AANHPI Month2021
Meg Emiko included a cherry blossom, part of their Japanese family crest, on a Progress Pride flag to encapsulate their Asian American, trans non-binary, and queer identities into their Asian American Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage (AANHPI) Month art.
Hank Willis Thomas
"All Power to All People"2020
Inspired by Hank Willis Thomas's 28 feet tall public artwork, installed at HRC’s DC headquarters August 13–28, 2017, that symbolized community, strength, perseverance, justice, and belonging that demanded social change and inspired action.
Katy Hunchar
“49” Art Installation x Equality March for Unity and Pride2017
Katy Hunchar’s limited-edition Equal sign tee was inspired by Megan Geckler’s monumental art installation “49” at HRC’s DC headquarters (June–August 2017), honoring Pride and the one-year mark of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub attack in Orlando.
Panic At the Disco!
"Girls Love Girls and Boys"2014
Panic! At The Disco donated 100% of the proceeds from the sales of an HRC branded version of their popular “Girls Love Girls and Boys” t-shirt that sold on their webstore in 2014.
Ryan McGinnis
National Coming Out Day (NCOD)2013
Twenty-five years after the first NCOD, Ryan McGinnis reminded us the more we come out as LGBTQ+ people and allies, the more we tell our stories and engage others, the more victories we will achieve.
Kelly Towles
Spirit Day2013
Kelly Towles’s original art, “Strong Heart”, envisioned a world where young people grow up free of the bullying and harassment faced by many in the LGBTQ+ community, especially our trans and nonbinary youth.
Ke$ha
National Coming Out Day (NCOD)2011
Ke$ha was inspired by her smash hit “We R Who We R” when she designed HRC’s NCOD tee for 2011. Ke$ha’s empowering message of self-expression encouraged LGBTQ+ people and our allies to live open and honest lives.
iO Tillett Wright
Self Evident Truths Project2011
The Self Evident Truths project documented people in the USA who identified as ANYTHING OTHER than 100% straight. HRC sold tees that featured musicians Tegan Quin, JD Samson, Bianca Casady, artist Terence Koh, and designer Robert Tagliapietra.
Keith Haring
National Coming Out Day (NCOD)1993–Present
On August 6, 1988, Keith Haring created the now famous drawing of a person coming out of a proverbial closet, which he contributed to the NCOD project. The NCOD organization merged with HRC in 1993.