The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) will be honoring Shonda Rhimes with Ally For Equality Award at its Los Angeles event to be held in March 2015.
Chad Griffin, president of the nation's largest LGBT civil rights organization declared the news, saying that the 44-year-old 'Grey's Anatomy' creator has always spoken up on the issues of equality and had created some of the most groundbreaking portrayals of LGBT people on television, Deadline.com reported.
Rhimes was previously also named as one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
