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Contents:
- WHY GAY RIGHTS MAY BE PRINT OBAMA’S BIGGT LEGACY
- HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
WHY GAY RIGHTS MAY BE PRINT OBAMA’S BIGGT LEGACY
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. * gay rights obama administration *
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.
HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton. * gay rights obama administration *
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.
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton. * gay rights obama administration *
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. 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. Ined, we gay folks had gotten ed to grog about the Print.
Bh’s had done, that gays have marriage equaly already, bee we n already marry someone of the oppose sex. To gay Amerins, this did not look like the fierce urgency of now.
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.
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But ’s now clear that the Obama admistratn has quietly accumulated an imprsive and unprecented rerd on gay rights.
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.