WASHINGTON, April 25 -- This afternoon, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) - the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization - hosted a die-in in front of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to protest the Trump Administration's dangerous cuts to HHS programs. The cuts, which target programs and research on a wide variety of other social and public health issues including STIs, mental health and suicide prevention, gender-affirming care, cancer prevention, elder care, substance use and harm reduction and homelessness will result in far-reaching, deadly consequences for the LGBTQ+ community.

HRC's Senior Public Policy Advocate Matthew Rose addressed the crowd on the devasta...