Biden Marks Pride With Commitment to LGBTQ Rights
President Biden made a passionate case for increasing the rights of the LGBTQ community Saturday, as Washington DC celebrated Pride Month.
Biden made his remarks at a White House celebration of Pride, celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising which is acknowledged as the beginning of the modern struggle for LGBTQ rights.
Saturday was also the day that the city of Washington DC celebrated Pride.
Biden remarked on the strange “in-between state” in which LGBTQ rights exist in the United States.
“When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still very wrong in America,” he said, on the situation in which same-sex marriage is legal while public accommodations in many states still are not protected.
The president also criticized the growing proliferation of laws in Republican-led states curtailing — or outright eliminating — the rights of LGBTQ Americans, including those limiting or barring the ability of transgender Americans to receive gender-affirming health care.
“You know and families across the country faces excruciating decisions to relocate to a different state to protect their child from dangerous anti LGBTQ+ laws,” Biden said. “We have to act. We have to act as a nation. We need to push back against the hundreds of callous and cynical bills and laws introduced and states targeting transgender children, terrified families and criminalizing doctors and nurses.
“These bills or laws attack the most basic values and freedoms we have as America’s that’s, not hyperbole. That’s a fact,” Biden said.
He noted that he reversed the course from the Trump administration and allowed transgender Americans to serve openly in the US military.
“Jill, and Kamala and Doug and I— and the whole administration — are doing everything we can to advance LGBTQ equality in our nation,” Biden said, referring to First Lady Dr Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, respectively.
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