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The vice print vised the Stonewall Inn, a landmark for the gay rights movement, a day after New York’s ernor signed a bill to protect transgenr youth.

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JOE BIN AND KAMALA HARRIS BOTH WORKED FOR GAY MARRIAGE —  OPPOSE WAYS

To discs strategi to end the e of the so-lled gay and transgenr panic fense. Supreme Court upheld a 2010 feral urt cisn validatg Proposn 8, and gay marriag rumed the state. Shortly after was announced that Bin, the prumptive 2020 Democratic printial nomee, had chosen Harris as his nng mate, Matt Hill, a gay Bin staffer, shared a clip om “The Case Agast 8, ” a documentary about Proposn 8, showg the moments 2013 when Harris, then-California's attorney general, found out about the high urt's she was elected to the Senate 2016, Harris ntued to stnchly support LGBTQ rights, equently -sponsorg pro-equaly legislatn and speakg out agast the vlence faced by transgenr her selectn as Bin's nng mate on Tuday, Harris ma immediate wav when she announced her chief of staff would be Kare Jean-Pierre — an out lbian, a former Obama Whe Hoe staffer and a spokperson for the progrsive group MoveOn.

”But durg the primary, Harris, Bin and over a dozen other Democratic hopefuls were remarkably unified their posns on many LGBTQ issu, which clud endg the transgenr ary ban and relig exemptns to anti-discrimatn laws, and reversg polici that discrimate agast LGBTQ people adoptn and Bin-Harris LGBTQ platform promis to make major chang areas where LGBTQ people are not fully protected by the law — like hog, ary service and health the Democratic primary, ndidat were all unified their vow to sign the Equaly Act, a bill that would update many nondiscrimatn laws to explicly clu lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. Mark Takano, D-Calif., lled Harris "well qualified and well prepared" to be vice, who is gay, said her selectn is "credibly meangful to the LGBTQ muny, and as a Japane Amerin I am also proud to have someone of Asian herage on the ticket.

"Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay former printial hopeful who equently mpaigned on his experience as a mayor and gay man “Mike Pence’s Indiana, ” tweeted, “It feels good to visualize the moment when Vice Print Mike Pence is replaced by Vice Print Kamala Harris. The Vice Print also observed the fifth anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shootg on Twter, payg tribute to the 49 people who were killed at the Orlando gay club on June 12, 2016. Me — the lil, untry gay kid om Paris, TX jt helped troduce the hight rankg female lear ever elected our Country, " Pierce ntued.

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