The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced Monday that it hopes to “Make America Gay Again,” and launched a gay rights awareness campaign that riffs off Donald Trump’s campaign slogan.
The gay activist group is joining with the Ally Coalition and American Apparel to produce a limited line of tank tops and t-shirts with “Make America Gay Again” and “Make America LGBTQ Again” in rainbow colored script.
The Human Rights Campaign has previously criticized Donald Trump for being “dangerously out of step with the majority of fair-minded Americans who believe that LGBT people should be treated equally under the law.”
The “Make America LGBTQ Again” and “Make America Gay Again” campaign, announced during LGBT Pride Month, is designed to raise public awareness and funds for the HRC agenda, including pushing passage of the Equality Act.
The Equality Act would amend federal civil rights statutes by making “sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation.” It would also prohibit the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 from being used to challenge such protections, potentially forcing religious objectors to choose between upholding their faith and upholding the law.
The line will be part of the “Make America Gay Again” campaign, which will include a number of events to “educate audiences about LGBTQ equality and work to increase acceptance.” Jack Antonoff, musician and boyfriend of “Girls” actress Lena Dunham, will create a soundtrack for the campaign.
Antonoff said he and the Ally Coalition, which he co-founded, are contributing to the awareness effort because “during a year where LGBTQ rights are being threatened all over the states, everyone is responsible for coming together and challenging these injustices.”
