The first annual True Colors Tour 2007 was a music tour created by Cyndi Lauper. The tour stopped at fifteen cities between June 8 and June 30, 2007. The Human Rights Campaign received $1 from each ticket sold throughout the tour.
The program benefited HRC and other organizations that provide support to the GLBT community and to the straight friends and family who love them, including PFLAG Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and The Matthew Shepard Foundation.
The True Colors Tour 2007 featured Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Harry, Erasure, and The Dresden Dolls, with Margaret Cho as MC. Other artists and special guests who appeared for specific tour locations included The Gossip, Rosie O'Donnell, The Cliks, Indigo Girls, Cazwell, Amanda Lepore and Rufus Wainwright.
LogoTV, was one of the partnering sponsors for the tour http://www.truecolorstour.com/main.html. The channel aired a half-hour special on June 21, 2007 titled Shining Through: Behind the Scenes of True Colors. The special was hosted by comedian _Margaret Cho at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the special, Cyndi Lauper explained the purpose of the True Colors Tour:
This October,the US Congress had approved the Matthew Shepard Act into a law largely due to the great success of the True Colors Tour 2007.
