Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton.
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PRINTIAL PROCLAMATN--LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PRI MONTH
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.
The 1998 homophobic murr of gay Wyomg rint Matt Shepard sparked natnal and ternatnal outcry. Though Me Shepard was murred for beg gay, no hate crime charge uld be brought, as state law did not ban hate crim based on sexual orientatn or genr inty. Signed to law by Bill Clton 1993, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was a poor promise tend to prohib ary personnel om ‘huntg’ and discrimatg agast gay soldiers, but also ma an offence to be openly gay the ary.