While the world was watchg Ameri's gay rights transformatn, the Obama admistratn was pursug a quieter missn to export the same eedoms abroad.
Contents:
- HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
- MICHELLE OBAMA REVEALS SHE SNUCK OUT OF WHE HOE TO CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE LG
- ADVOT HOPEFUL OBAMA'S SUPPORT WILL HELP END GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY'
- GAY VOTE PROVED A BOON FOR OBAMA
- OBAMA'S QUIET MISSN TO EXPORT GAY RIGHTS OVERSEAS
HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton. * lgbt for obama *
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA REVEALS SHE SNUCK OUT OF WHE HOE TO CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE LG
Much has been ma of the fact Print Obama beme the first print to mentn the word gay an gural addrs. But the signifince li not what he said but how he said . In clarg… * lgbt for obama *
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.
ADVOT HOPEFUL OBAMA'S SUPPORT WILL HELP END GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY'
Print Obama and Mt Romney won roughly an equal number of vot among straight voters, but the print rried the gay vote three to one. * lgbt for obama *
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. ” He wrote: “And I was remd that is my obligatn, not only as an elected official a pluralistic society but also as a Christian, to rema open to the possibily that my unwillgns to support gay marriage is misguid … that J’ ll to love one another might mand a different ncln.
And I thk that is an issue that I wrtle wh and thk about bee I have a whole host of iends who are gay partnerships.
GAY VOTE PROVED A BOON FOR OBAMA
” By July, the Commanr--Chief formally certifi that the ary is ready for the open service of lbian, gay and bisexual troops. “That’s why we fend ee speech, and advote for polil prisoners, and nmn the persecutn of women, or relig mori, or people who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. WASHINGTON ― No print history has done more for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights than Barack Obama.
), one of the most proment LGBTQ policians Amerin history and for years the only openly gay member of Congrs, said he is not worried that marriage rights will disappear.
“Slia was the most important and explic homophobe to serve the Amerin ernment sce [Senator] Jse Helms died, and was ls appropriate for a Supreme Court jtice. Thompson dited himself to helpg build support for Obama on the liberal Lakeont on the North Si of Chigo, which clud the uber-gay neighborhood of Boystown centered on North Halsted that time, Obama had very ltle gay support to speak of. ”Durg the four-hour drive, Obama took the opportuny to ask Thompson some qutns about the gay muny that had been perlatg his md durg the mpaign.
OBAMA'S QUIET MISSN TO EXPORT GAY RIGHTS OVERSEAS
Thompson explaed that this kd of explic regnn was important bee there were still many people who thought legal rights for gays and lbians wasn’t a legimate nversatn. That was no longer the se for Ain Amerins or women, but for the gay muny, remaed te, at least certa segments of society.
And yet he had never heard of the event that many nsir the birth of the morn gay rights movement: the rts that took place at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village 1969, when the LGBT muny fought back agast police timidatn and arrt and mand legal equaly. It wasn’t long after marriage for gay upl had bee legal Massachetts, and the vilently anti-gay Key kept tryg to ba Obama to discsg the subject. “This muny is expectg you to stand bi them, ” she Obama ma clear to Verdich that he’d be stickg wh his, other words, began his polil journey sympathetic to gay rights, but not eply rmed about them.
The historic succs, on his watch and wh his help, meant that LGBT rights, and marriage equaly specifilly, would be at the center of the legacy he’d leave gay rights advot, the Obama princy got off to an spic start. Warren had been an outspoken supporter of Proposn 8, the California ballot iative that had brought marriage for gay upl to an immediate halt jt two months earlier, cshg the spir of the gay muny California and natnwi. The phback om gay lears, bloggers, and anizatns was fast and the Whe Hoe, too, the memo created a firtorm.