Contents:
- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
- MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
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. 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.
MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD
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.
When Printial ndidate Donald Tmp chose relig extremist and avowed homophobe Mike Pence as his nng mate stead of morate former New Jersey Gov. Supreme Court led agast gay platiffs and the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn the se of Masterpiece Cakhop, which refed to make a ke for a gay uple’s weddg.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
March 2019: Tmp refed to sign onto a statement by Uned Natns member natns llg for “a swift, thorough and impartial vtigatn to the alleged persecutn” of gays and lbians the Rsian republic of Chechnya. 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.
Wh ltle fanfare on Monday, Print Donald Tmp signed an executive orr that LGBTQ advot say rolls back lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights and breaks a promise to that muny not to make such chang to existg executive orr revok key ponents of the Obama admistratn's prev executive orr banng feral ntractors om discrimatg agast employe on the basis of sexual orientatn or inty, gay rights advot say. The group is opposg a "bathroom bill" that would require people to e public bathrooms and rtrooms that rrpond wh the sex on their birth Gay / APLGBTQ advot say they were particularly rattled by Tmp's Monday signg, sce revokg the pliance requirement would appear to make existg protectns agast genr inty and sexual orientatn discrimatn January, the Whe Hoe issued a statement rponse to panic over a mored executive orr that would severely impact LGBTQ rights — specifilly promisg not to over turn Obama's protectns for LGBTQ workers employed by feral ntractors. Appotg a small handful of gay people out of thoands of nomatns and makg a very few -- and unfullfilled -- pledg n hardly qualify as acplishments.
Joked about Pence’s sire to hang LGBTQ people: In 2017, Tmp joked about Vice Print Pence’s anti-gay agenda sayg “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all! They did not want to be intified; two said they feared beg reassigned for beg gay. There were openly gay officials workg at the hight levels of the Tmp admistratn.