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Contents:
- WHY GAY RIGHTS MAY BE PRINT OBAMA’S BIGGT LEGACY
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- WHEN THE U.S. BACKS GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS IN AI, IS THERE A BACKLASH?
- RAND PL: THKS PRINT OBAMA COULDN’T “GET ANY GAYER”
- MICHELLE OBAMA REVEALS SHE SNUCK OUT OF WHE HOE TO CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE LG
WHY GAY RIGHTS MAY BE PRINT OBAMA’S BIGGT LEGACY
Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton. * obama gay rights *
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. Senate mpaign, addg, “but what I also believe is that we have an obligatn to make sure that gays and lbians have the rights of cizenship that afford them visatns to hospals, that allow them to transfer property to each other, to make sure they’re not discrimated agast on the job. ” He wrote: “And I was remd that is my obligatn, not only as an elected official a pluralistic society but also as a Christian, to rema open to the possibily that my unwillgns to support gay marriage is misguid … that J’ ll to love one another might mand a different ncln.
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
Jonathan Rch discs how Print Obama has been a fierce advote for gay rights, cludg the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and g out support of same-sex marriage. * obama gay rights *
And I thk that is an issue that I wrtle wh and thk about bee I have a whole host of iends who are gay partnerships. ” By July, the Commanr--Chief formally certifi that the ary is ready for the open service of lbian, gay and bisexual troops. “That’s why we fend ee speech, and advote for polil prisoners, and nmn the persecutn of women, or relig mori, or people who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.
Gay and lbian activists gather at the Whe Hoe on Thursday for a celebratn markg LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr) Pri Month.
It's bee an annual event, tied to the monthlong memoratn of the Stonewall rts, which helped lnch the morn gay liberatn movement. Print Obama's years office have seen a flowerg of gay and lbian rights, culmatg a year ago when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage all 50 stat.
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
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Richard Soris, who'd been an adviser on gay rights to Bill Clton, plaed that Obama was "missg actn" the ph to end the ary ban on openly gay service members.
"They didn't want to repeat the mistak that Print Clton ma by tryg to move too quickly on gay rights, " Soris said. " The admistratn also angered some gay rights advot by ially fendg a law that barred feral regnn of same-sex marriag, even stat where they were allowed.
At the same time, the Whe Hoe was workg untls smaller ways to expand gay rights hog assistance, hospal visatn and other areas. In his send gural, Obama wove the ph for gay rights to a broar civil rights taptry, stretchg om Sene Falls and Selma to Stonewall. "Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like everyone else unr the law, " Obama said, drawg cheers om the crowd on the Natnal Mall.
WHEN THE U.S. BACKS GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS IN AI, IS THERE A BACKLASH?
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay. * obama gay rights *
When he first mpaigned for the Whe Hoe, Barack Obama vowed to be a fierce advote for gay rights, but hasn’t always been clear if he tend to keep his promise. It looked like more of the same, what gay activists had e to expect om Democratic policians: Do as ltle as you n get by wh to keep the gay lobby quiet, but save polil pal for more important and nstuenci. Ined, wh his health-re reform bill jeopardy of beg overturned by the Supreme Court or repealed by a future Congrs, there’s a real possibily that his efforts for gay equaly will prove to be his most endurg legacy.
RAND PL: THKS PRINT OBAMA COULDN’T “GET ANY GAYER”
As the U.S. has grown more tolerant durg Obama’s princy, Ain untri have imposed harsher laws on gays. * obama gay rights *
The history books may remember Obama for dog for gays what Lyndon Johnson did for Ain Amerins: Leadg his party across a bridge to an irrevoble posn on civil rights. And now, after years of equivotg, Obama has reversed himself on same-sex marriage, the most important and ntroversial gay-rights issue of our time.
But wng 2012 pends primarily on wng swg voters swg stat, plac like Virgia and North Carola, where full-throated support of gay marriage is unlikely to be helpful and may alienate centrists who disagree wh Obama or want to foc on the enomy. Though some polls now show natnal support for gay marriage at 50 percent or more, beware: Intensy on this issue ntu to favor opponents, which is why they keep passg anti-gay-marriage ballot iativ. Mt Romney supports a nstutnal amendment outlawg gay marriage, somethg the 2008 Republin nomee, John McCa, was unwillg to do.
From the pot of view of a gay-rights activist, ensurg Obama’s reelectn was prry one even when he was still “evolvg” on marriage. There’s no doubt that Obama is a more ut polician than Johnson: If he thought helpg gays would have st him the electn, he wouldn’t have done —and gays wouldn’t have wanted him to. Print to put the feral ernment unequivolly on the si of full equaly for gay Amerins, and he will almost surely be the last Democratic print to have opposed full equaly.
MICHELLE OBAMA REVEALS SHE SNUCK OUT OF WHE HOE TO CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE LG
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.