The Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group for gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered citizens, announced on Monday that it would begin training organizers to help elect "pro-equality" candidates.

HRC is supporting 10 incumbent senators for re-election, including Senator Susan Collins.

Collins is the only Republican that HRC is supporting. The organization also announced support for four Democratic challengers, including New Hampshire's former governor, Jeanne Shaheen.

Joe Solmonese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, said that Collins has been supportive of issues important to gay and lesbian voters, including support of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act. The bill, which passed the House last year, would ban discrimination against gay and lesbian employees in the workplace.

On the scorecard from the 109th Congress Tom Allen had a 100% rating to Susan Collins’ 78%.

108th Congress: Tom Allen 100%, Susan Collins 88%

107th Congress: Tom Allen 100%, Susan Collins 86%

Here is the list of the 14 challengers and incumbents.

Max Baucus, D-MT
Joe Biden, D-DE
Susan Collins, R-ME
Dick Durbin, D-IL
Al Franken, D-MN
Tom Harkin, D-IA
John Kerry, D-MA
Mary Landrieu, D-LA
Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ
Carl Levin, D-MI
Jack Reed, D-RI
Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH
Mark Udall, D-CO
Tom Udall, D-NM

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