Immigratn and gay rights: Gillibrand and Gabbard qutned on past views | US electns 2020 | The Guardian

Contents:

• IMMIGRATN AND GAY RIGHTS: GILLIBRAND AND GABBARD QUTNED ON PAST VIEWS
• SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND CELEBRAT GAY PRI
• GILLIBRAND SERV DRKS AT IOWA GAY BAR HONOR OF PRI MONTH
• RTORG HONOR TO GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL VETERANS: COLUMN

IMMIGRATN AND GAY RIGHTS: GILLIBRAND AND GABBARD QUTNED ON PAST VIEWS

The only Democratic ndidate for print who has mpaigned at a drag club, is now the first ndidate to prent an agenda to protect the rights of gay and transgenr Amerins.

SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND CELEBRAT GAY PRI

Kirsten Gillibrand announced Saturday — the first day of Gay Pri Month — her plan to help enforce LGBTQ rights. Regardg fai and children, Gillibrand outled multiple policy plans foced on gay parents and children.

She would dify gay marriage, nomate an Edutn secretary who foc on LGBTQ issu, and ban nversatn therapy – the ntroversial practice of achg, sometime aggrsively, gay children to believg they are the agenda, Gillibrand ntrasted her polici wh Print Tmp, claimg the print is "a bigoted, wardly bully who mak the LGBTQ muny more vulnerable. A 2017 Universy of Chigo study found that young people who are gay or transgenr are 120% more likely to fall to homelsns than their peers. Gillibrand – who supports Medire for All – would require hormone therapy, treatments ed to medilly assist trans men and women transn, be vered by would also make PrEP, a leadg HIV dg, more affordable, and repeal the FDA's regulatn preventg gay men om donatg blood if they have had sex twelve months prr to tend donatn.

Gillibrand, who has been cricized for havg more nservative views durg her time as a member of the US Hoe of Reprentativ, has touted her Senate votg rerd on gay rights on the mpaign trail.

GILLIBRAND SERV DRKS AT IOWA GAY BAR HONOR OF PRI MONTH

She worked to improve the handlg of sexual asslt s wh the ary and to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” a policy that barred openly gay men and women om servg the ary. gay rights. Senator for New York sce 2009What she ed to do: She served New York’s 20th Congrsnal District om 2007 to 2009; served as special unsel to Secretary of Hog and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo durg the Clton admistratn; was an attorney New York Cy; and was a law clerk to Judge Roger Mer on the 2nd Circu Court of life/reer moments:Gillibrand beme a senator 2009 to fill the vancy ed by the rignatn of Hillary Clton when she was nomated by Print Barack Obama as secretary of 2010, Gillibrand succsfully mpaigned to repeal the "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" policy that banned gay men and lbian women om servg the ary.

CNN reported this week that when she was the Hawaii state hoe, she “touted workg for her father’s anti-gay anizatn, which mobilized to pass a measure agast same-sex marriage Hawaii and promoted ntroversial nversn therapy” up for the US morng briefgThe ngrswoman apologised.

RTORG HONOR TO GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL VETERANS: COLUMN

@SenGillibrand returns to the Blazg Saddle, D Mo\u2019 olst gay bar, to a packed crowd!