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“Whether or not [HRC] will contribute
or do more with the BRO marriage
campaign, [HRC] will have to asse ss
internally. H RC will have to assess
the 2012 landscape to see what it
looks like and try to prioritize.”
—TOM WAGNER,
H RC REGIO N A L FIELD D IRECTO R
pro-equality politicians to office. It’s currently
working toward a ballot initiative for same-
sex marriage in Oregon. BRO and its politi
cal action committees reported an annual
budget of nearly $1.7 million for 2010.
HRC is the largest organization focus
ing on LGBTQ_rights in the United States.
Founded in 1980, it’s based in Washington,
D.C., with a 140-person staff and more
than a million volunteers and contributors
nationwide. It lobbies for pro-equality fed
Local and national
eral legislation and works to elect pro
equality candidates to political office. It
Many of you by this point are blinking in also has educational and outreach programs
disbelief that Ju st Out is running a story on on issues like coming out and discrimina
the differences between BRO and HRC. tion in the workplace. H RC’s lobbying arm
You’re screaming, “HRC is a huge, national and outreach programs had a combined an
organization based in Washington, D .C.!” nual budget last year of $37.9 million.
as you swat the paper with the back of your
So in a nutshell, BRO is local and HRC is
hand. “BRO is a scrappy team of locals who national. While BRO worked to defend Or
do work only in Oregon!”
egon’s domestic partnership and anti-dis
Yes, that is the main difference between crimination laws, HRC worked to repeal
BRO and H RC, though believe it or not, “Don’t ask, don’t tell” on the national level.
it’s not clear to everyone—the staff at Ju st While BRO worked to elect Governor John
Out have run into members of the commu Kitzhaber, HRC worked to elect Senator
nity who couldn’t point to this one, key Ron Wyden. Both organizations do work
difference.
that affects the lives of Oregonians, either on
BRO was founded in 1996 as an Oregon a state level or a national one.
nonprofit and has since grown to a 15-person
organization, plus about 15,000 volunteers W orking together
and contributors. It works throughout the
state to end discrimination based on sexual
Sometimes the work of the two organi
orientation and gender identity. It fights anti zations overlaps. HRC does have a small
equality ballot measures and works to elect outpost of Portland-based volunteers that
BRO and HRC, by the numbers
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This year, as you watch different groups
march past you in the Pride parade, you
might say to yourself, “Gee, Portland has a
lot of gay nonprofits.” And youd be right.
You might also ask, “W hy are all these
groups necessary? Don’t they do the same
thing?” Then, you wouldn’t be right, at least
not entirely.
Take two prominent groups, Basic Rights
Oregon and the Human Rights Campaign.
They both fight for equality. They both are
involved politically. They both shorten their
names to three-letter acronyms (BRO and
HRC).To an outsider, they look pretty simi
lar. But when you understand how they
work, you see the differences between them
are pretty big.
This comparison of BRO and HRC will
help answer the question, “How are they
different?” Or perhaps more importantly,
“Which one should get my money?”
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Basic Rights Oregon
Human Rights Campaign
Based
Portland
W ashington, D.C.
Year founded
1996
1980
Annual budget
$1.7 million
$37.9 million
Staff
15
140
Supporters
15,000
1 million