Collaborations

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's original art, No Mākou Ke Ānuenue, means "the rainbow for us all '' in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiian language) was the inspiration for HRC’s Asian American Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage (AANHPI) Month tee collaboration.

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 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.

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’s limited-edition Equal sign tee was inspired by Megan Geckler’s monumental art installation “49” at HRC’s DC headquarters, June-August 2017, that honored Pride and the one-year mark of 2016’s deadly attack at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.

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.

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’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$ha was inspired by her smash hit “We R Who We R” when she designed HRC’s NCOD tee for 2011. Ke$ha’s empowering message of self-expression encouraged LGBTQ+ people and our allies to live open and honest lives.

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.

On August 6th, 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.