HRC’s congressional endorsements for the fall elections.

Congressional challengers (clockwise from top left) Wendy Davis, Jackie Gordon, Sri Kulkarni, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, Marie Newman, Jill Schupp, Eugene DePasquale, and Kathy Manning (Photos: Facebook)

The Human Rights Campaign has endorsed 16 candidates challenging incumbent members of Congress as part of an effort to expand the number of pro-equality members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The national LGBTQ rights organization threw its weight behind several…