June 2011 has been proclaimed Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month.
Contents:
- HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
- PRINTIAL PROCLAMATN--LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH
- PRINTIAL MEMORANDUM -- INTERNATNAL INIATIV TO ADVANCE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- OBAMA'S QUIET MISSN TO EXPORT GAY RIGHTS OVERSEAS
HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
While the world was watchg Ameri's gay rights transformatn, the Obama admistratn was pursug a quieter missn to export the same eedoms abroad. * president obama lgbt *
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.
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.
PRINTIAL PROCLAMATN--LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH
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.
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. 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.
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. “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.
PRINTIAL MEMORANDUM -- INTERNATNAL INIATIV TO ADVANCE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS
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. If the new admistratn argued that a “heightened scty” standard of review were required for laws that classified based on sexual orientatn, would be difficult jtifyg the nstutnaly of DOMA, or any other law that sgled out gay or lbian Wolfson, print of Freedom to Marry and known as the godfather of the movement, ma a forceful se to the Whe Hoe to apply heightened scty—first to Ta Tchen the office of public engagement and later to Obama nfidante Valerie Jarrett—always acpanied by a strong pch for gog all the way and enunciatg support for marriage.
The latter had been a movement victory, wh the gay prs phg hard and advot and ordary same-sex upl alike speakg out, while quiet nversatns between advot and Whe Hoe officials were simultaneoly takg place.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
), 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.
“This is a pper on his legacy many ways, ” said Kerry Eleveld, Daily Kos wrer and thor of the book, “Don’t Tell Me To Wa: How the fight for gay rights changed Ameri and transformed Obama’s princy.
OBAMA'S QUIET MISSN TO EXPORT GAY RIGHTS OVERSEAS
"It don't make much sense, " Print Obama said, "but today Ameri, lns of our fellow cizens wake up and go to work wh the awarens that they uld lose their job, not bee of anythg they do or fail to do, but bee of who they are -- lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr.