Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton.
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- BARACK OBAMA, GAY RIGHTS GROUPS STGGLE OVER DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
- OBAMA DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS ON KENYA TRIP
BARACK OBAMA, GAY RIGHTS GROUPS STGGLE OVER DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
* obama and lgbt rights *
Sce takg office, Print Obama and his Admistratn have ma historic stris to expand opportuni and advance equaly and jtice for all Amerins, cludg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Amerins. Insurance pani are no longer able to discrimate agast anyone due to a pre-existg ndn, and bee of the law, surers n no longer turn someone away jt bee he or she is lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Print Obama veloped and released the first prehensive Natnal HIV/AIDS Strategy for the Uned Stat 2010, updated through 2020, and is implementg to addrs the dispari faced pecially by gay and bisexual men of all rac and ethnici and transgenr women of lor.
OBAMA DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS ON KENYA TRIP
The Print signed bipartisan legislatn to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on December 22, 2010, allowg gay, lbian, and bisexual Amerins to serve openly the Armed Forc whout fear of beg dismissed om service bee of who they are and who they love, puttg motn the end of a discrimatory policy that ran unter to Amerin valu.
Over the next two years, the iative has veloped and evaluated strategi to prevent lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth om beg homels or tervene as early as possible once they do bee homels.
Once the rince of noted gay rights activist Henry Gerber, the home was where the natn's first chartered LGBT rights anizatn, the Society for Human Rights, was formed 1924. He also says that he supports affirmative actn for gays and lbians. Senate mpaign, addg, “but what I also believe is that we have an obligatn to make sure that gays and lbians have the rights of cizenship that afford them visatns to hospals, that allow them to transfer property to each other, to make sure they’re not discrimated agast on the job.