Obama Gay Rights Mentn Ingural Speech

Contents:

• 'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA LDS GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVISTS HAILG 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• OBAMA MAK HISTORY BY CG GAY RIGHTS INGURAL ADDRS
• OBAMA VOK GAY RIGHTS GURAL ADDRS
• OBAMA LECTUR KENYAN PRINT ON GAY RIGHTS
• OBAMA INGURATN SPEECH MAK HISTORY WH MENTN OF GAY RIGHTS STGGLE, STONEWALL UPRISG
• U.S. TO AID GAY RIGHTS ABROAD, OBAMA AND CLTON SAY
• PRINT OBAMA'S HISTORY-MAKG GAY RIGHTS INGURAL SPEECH
• OBAMA MENTNS GAY RIGHTS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN AN INGURAL ADDRS

'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA LDS GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVISTS HAILG 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'

It’s a victory for gay and lbian upl who have so long for their basic civil rights. “Love is love, ” clared Barack Obama, the aftermath of the supreme urt’s landmark cisn on gay marriage on a speech the Whe Hoe Rose Garn, the print warmly embraced the urt’s 5-4 cisn Obergefell v Hodg as a step towards makg “our unn a ltle more perfect”. “It’s a victory for gay and lbian upl who have fought so long for their basic civil rights.

The print publicly endorsed same-sex marriage 2012 and referenced the ph for gay marriage his send gural speech.

Oh senator Rob Portman, a supporter of gay marriage, said: “I would have preferred for this issue to be rolved by the mocratic procs the stat bee I thk you build a more lastg nsens that way.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

However, the supreme urt has led that state bans on gay marriage are unnstutnal, and I will rpect the urt’s cisn. 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.

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OBAMA MAK HISTORY BY CG GAY RIGHTS INGURAL ADDRS

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.

OBAMA VOK GAY RIGHTS GURAL ADDRS

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. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Print Obama livered a rog speech Saturday night to the natn's largt gay rights group, praisg the gay muny for makg stris equal rights and pledgg to liver on major mpaign promis that some say he's left on the back burner. " Obama's speech me as gay rights activists ntued to lose patience over the lack of change to key issu for the gay muny -- cludg the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

It on the eve of a major gays-rights rally Washgton.

" Obama lled for the repeal of the ban on gays the ary -- the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. " The print said he backed the rights of gay upl, sayg they should have the "same rights and rponsibili afford to any married uple this untry. Obama acknowledged the fact that many the gay muny don't believe ernment is movg fast enough to addrs their ncerns.

OBAMA LECTUR KENYAN PRINT ON GAY RIGHTS

" Obama said gay people, like other Amerins, are affected by myriad ncerns -- namely, the enomy and the wars Afghanistan and Iraq -- and strsed that he's focg on issu that affect the entire natn. " Still, Obama said, 's imperative that the gay muny ntue to pursue the polici they support.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry's anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance.

” Healey ed profany his speech cricizg the ernment's stance agast homosexualy, before kissg bass player Ross MacDonald. Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and ng. ” It said the group will be blacklisted om performg wasn't the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights.

OBAMA INGURATN SPEECH MAK HISTORY WH MENTN OF GAY RIGHTS STGGLE, STONEWALL UPRISG

In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports. So every year, we set asi this month to celebrate the ways that so many lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins have helped to make our unn jt a ltle more perfect. We still have more work to do when gay and bisexual men make up two-thirds of new HIV s our untry.

U.S. TO AID GAY RIGHTS ABROAD, OBAMA AND CLTON SAY

Much has been ma of the fact Print Obama beme the first print to mentn the word gay an gural addrs. In clarg, “Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law” Obama not only clared himself abstractly for “gay rights”, he placed the rights at the heart of the central ials of the Amerin story. Obama’s riff on gay and lbian rights then begs a very specific way which very skillfully lks to both adaptatn to new challeng and llective actn.

In this extraordary claratn, Obama not only clar that adaptg to, and fightg for, gay and lbian rights is important, but that the fight for the rights, which stems om the 1969 Stonewall rts, should be placed on the same footg as the fight for women’s rights at Sene Falls and the fight for racial equaly at Selma. Here the print effectively placed the fight for gay and lbian rights wh the myth of the ongog Amerin revolutn. This leads to an explic ll for gay and lbian equaly the next paragraph:.

Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law – for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as well.

PRINT OBAMA'S HISTORY-MAKG GAY RIGHTS INGURAL SPEECH

But his cln of such a statement an gural addrs, a key rual moment of Amerin mocracy, and his cln of this claratn the ntext of the fight for women’s and civil rights marks yet another tone the story of gay and lbian cizenship. In this refully crafted speech, Obama not only laid a claim for gay and lbian equaly and same sex marriage; he was layg a claim that any nstutnal value of equaly do not have an origal or fundamentalist meang, rather one that nstantly evolv. This is fundamentally at odds wh our own Prime Mister Julia Gillard, who appeals to the importance of tradn and “herage” her own refal to acknowledge the marriage rights of gay and lbian Atralians.

OBAMA MENTNS GAY RIGHTS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN AN INGURAL ADDRS

21, 2013— -- Print Obama ma history his gural addrs today mentng the word "gay" and the issue of gay rights for the first time a speech at the printial swearg . "Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as well, " Obama said his addrs on the Capol steps after his swearg also mentned the word Stonewall when cg ton of the civil right stggle.

It was a reference to a rt and subsequent protts over a police raid June 1969 of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy's Greenwich Village. ""The print placed the fight for gay equaly alongsi the stggl for women's equaly and civil rights. He ma clear that he would ntue to fight for marriage equaly bee all love is equal, " Ellner said Obama's statement "will help current efforts to w [gay] marriage Mnota, Rho Island, Delaware, Illois and even France.

"Chad Griff, print of the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largt gay rights anizatns, also appld the print mentng gay rights. Allyson Robson, the executive director of Out-Serve SLDN, the associatn of actively servg gay and lbian ary personnel, said the print "ma history wh a clear and passnate claratn of the fundamental rights of LGBT Amerins, and all Amerins.