Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton.
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.
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. 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.
HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
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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.
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 *
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.
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.
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. In 2009, Obama signed an executive orr givg gay partners of feral workers some limed benefs.
Newsweek once gave Barack Obama the tle of “First Gay Print” on s May 21, 2012, ver as he was heavily foced on issu like legalizg gay marriage across thor of the article was gay wrer, Andrew Sullivan, who wrote, “When you step back a ltle and asss the rerd of Ob... * gay rights obama administration *
Repudiatg DOMA, a ban on feral regnn of stat’ gay marriag, entailed some real polil risk for the admistratn. Even a lot of pro-gay legal scholars were surprised by the move. 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.
Y, will please gay donors, who are playg an important role the 2012 mpaign. 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.