Contents:
- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
- MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
Our Natn has ma great stris fulfillg the fundamental promis of eedom and equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) Amerins, owg to the learship of generatns of LGBTQI+ dividuals. Today, Print Bin issued a proclamatn affirmg June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pri Month, markg a time a time of hope, progrs, and promise for LGBTQ+ Amerins across the untry. Signg and Leadg Implementatn of a Printial Memorandum on Advancg the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World.
” As prevly highlighted by the Whe Hoe, Departments and Agenci are already makg progrs areas towards the goals outled the Printial Memorandum, cludg: strengthen existg efforts to bat the crimalizatn by foreign ernments of LGBTQ+ people and expand efforts to bat discrimatn, homophobia, transphobia, and tolerance on the basis of LGBTQ+ stat or nduct; protect vulnerable LGBTQ+ refuge and asylum seekers; help ensure the Feral Government has a swift and meangful rponse to ser cints that threaten the human rights of LGBTQ+ persons abroad; and build alns wh like-md natns to unter discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ people around the world. The Bin-Harris Admistratn clus barrier-breakg LGBTQ+ lears, cludg Secretary of Transportatn Pete Buttigieg, who is the first openly gay Cabet Secretary nfirmed by the U.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
Print Bin has assembled the most diverse Admistratn our Natn’s history, and is proud to serve alongsi the 14 percent of all appote who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer. Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought — and ntue to fight — for full equaly. BIDEN JR., Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month.
Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Pri Month, we reflect on the progrs we have ma as a Natn the fight for jtice, cln, and equaly while reaffirmg our mment to do more to support LGBTQI+ rights at home and abroad.
I am honored by the service of the first openly gay Cabet Secretary and the first transgenr person nfirmed by the Senate and to have been able to tablish the first Whe Hoe Genr Policy Council. BIDEN JR., Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2022 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Pri Month.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
Ernment’s implementatn of the Febary 4, 2021, Printial Memorandum on Advancg the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons Around the World. This memorandum reaffirms and supplements the prcipl tablished the Printial Memorandum of December 6, 2011 (Internatnal Iniativ to Advance the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Persons). That memorandum, for the first time, directed executive partments and agenci (agenci) engaged abroad to ensure that Uned Stat diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr persons everywhere.
Around the globe, cludg here at home, brave lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) activists are fightg for equal protectn unr the law, eedom om vlence, and regnn of their fundamental human rights. Agenci engaged abroad are directed to strengthen existg efforts to bat the crimalizatn by foreign ernments of LGBTQI+ stat or nduct and expand efforts to bat discrimatn, homophobia, transphobia, and tolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ stat or nduct. [L8N2JT4NI]Bin also revoked a Tmp orr that had banned feral diversy trag to bat racist, sexist and homophobic bias, as part of his “orr on advancg racial equy and support for unrserved muni through the feral ernment”.
MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD
Department of State’s “Lavenr Sre”—an ternal wch hunt that st at least 1, 000 people their State Department jobs for alleged homosexualy durg the 1950s and two weeks later, that apology—along wh nearly every other mentn of LGBTQ issu—has been removed om the Department of State News emailed the State Department’s prs office to ask why LGBTQ ntent had been scbbed om the webse, and whether such a move is temporary or permanent. “Donald Tmp has already nomated a startlgly antigay bet, and erasg om the Whe Hoe webse signals how he tly feels about LGBT people and everyone livg wh HIV, ” Tiven said. Whe Hoe officials equently tout the diversy of Print Bin’s admistratn, cludg that roughly 15 percent of all appote intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer.
Buttigieg is the first openly gay Senate-nfirmed Cabet secretary U. After Buttigieg’s nomatn was announced December 2020, he relled watchg the nfirmatn hearg of Jam Hormel, an openly gay man nomated as an ambassador durg the Clton admistratn who faced stnch Republin opposn. “I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this posn.