Obama's Quiet Missn to Export Gay Rights Overseas

Contents:

• MICHELLE OBAMA REVEALS SHE SNUCK OUT OF WHE HOE TO CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE LG
• HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
• OBAMA'S QUIET MISSN TO EXPORT GAY RIGHTS OVERSEAS

MICHELLE OBAMA REVEALS SHE SNUCK OUT OF WHE HOE TO CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE LG

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. 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.

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.

HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT

It’s a victory for gay and lbian upl who have so long for their basic civil rights.

Is a disagreement over the legal meang of the word "sex" — and whether discrimatn agast gay and transgenr people for beg gay or transgenr is sex discrimatn. " Behd all of the reversals is the Tmp admistratn's posn that beg gay or transgenr is a tegory of inty that is different om "blogil sex, " and therefore not protected unr current law — a plete about-face om the posn taken by the Obama admistratn. " It didn't take long for people volved the growg gay rights movement to beg nsirg how the protectn agast discrimatn on the basis of "sex" might impact them, Kreis says.

"In 1966, there was a prott at Juli's Bar Manhattan — the bar, cg state regulators, refed to serve the openly gay men, " Kreis says. " In the 1970s and 1980s, gay and transgenr people began to file lawsus makg this argument, Kreis says, but took s before judg began to si wh them. "In 1964, maybe no one was thkg about this law protectg gays and lbians and transgenr dividuals — they may not have had all the same words to scribe actually the kd of discrimatn at issue here that we do now, " he says.

OBAMA'S QUIET MISSN TO EXPORT GAY RIGHTS OVERSEAS

The Tmp Whe Hoe ph back on the notn that Print Tmp is agast gay or transgenr people. He not Tmp's participatn Washgton's Pri activi last year, and that the print has hired and promoted Whe Hoe staff who are gay, and phed for ternatnal crimalizatn of homosexualy. In each se, a gay or transgenr person was fired allegedly bee of their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

Kreis mak the pot that polls suggt that, parison to past eras, Amerin society is now much more acceptg and unrstandg of people who are gay or transgenr.

" Along wh her work on policy and LGBTQ discrimatn s — Buchert also wants to fight the msage she says the Tmp admistratn's actns are sendg: that gay and transgenr people should not be protected om discrimatn and that they should jt disappear or pretend to be somethg they are not. "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.