HRC Las Vegas is a Proud Participant in Stand Out for Equality

Allyson Robinson HRC Associate Director of Diversity Find out more about Allyson's work at HRC's Out in Season and HRC's Transgender resource page on law and policy.

The Human Rights Campaign comes together with other Nevadaequality organizations including The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, PLAN, LAMBDA, PFLAG, ACLU, WEN, and others to support “Equality Days.”  The event held April 21-22 in Carson City, Nevada, is the first of its kind lobbying effort providing LGBT equality activists the opportunity to educate and engage our elected officials regarding LGBT issues.   

HRC Las Vegas is one of the top contributors to the event, providing contributions to the scholarship program, keynote speaker Allyson Robinson, key representation at Carson City, just to name a few. 

“Advocacy organizations are important at every level - national, state, and local - but the grassroots are where change really happens.  When individual citizens invest their time and effort in face-to-face conversations with those who represent them in government, that investment pays huge dividends.  Organizations like HRC do our best, most productive work when we empower our members to make the best investment of themselves they can in the political process.  That's what Stand Out is all about,” remarked Allyson Robinson, Associate Director of Diversity at the Human Rights Campaign. 

Robinson joined HRC recently in 2008 to lead the organization and its volunteer base in promoting awareness of transgender issues and to ensure that all program areas demonstrate measurable commitment to transgender equality and inclusion.  Through her Army, ministry, and other charitable work, Allyson believes that leadership is not a gift of position but the product of vision and consistency.  “Vision shows us where we need to go; consistency builds the trust necessary for others to follow us there.  HRC shares our community's vision of an America where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are ensured equality and embraced as full members of the American family at home, at work and in every community.”     

Allyson Robinson will be one of the equality leaders on hand to represent LGBT issues at the two day event in Carson City, April 21-22.  She believes “the whole of our coalition is greater than the sum of its parts.”  For more information on how you can participate in or support “Equality Days,” visit HRC’s website at http://lasvegas.hrc.org/.