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A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * gay equality speech *

This month, Pri flags are flyg — as some of my iends our last adm- — the Obama-Bin admistratn who are openly gay — they are flyg more than — over 130 U.

When a same-sex uple n be married the morng but nied a lease the afternoon for beg gay, somethg is still wrong. Look at the young people: straight and gay, don’t matter.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

Five months before his assassatn 1978, Harvey Milk lled on the print of the Uned Stat to fend the rights of gay and lbian Amerins. * gay equality speech *

Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought — and ntue to fight — for full equaly. BIDEN JR., Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month.

Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu.

The stggle of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people for equal rights has moved to center stage. Gay and lbian people are featured movi and on televisn – not as novelty characters, but as full participants society.

HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED

Much has been ma of the fact Print Obama beme the first print to mentn the word gay an gural addrs. But the signifince li not what he said but how he said . In clarg… * gay equality speech *

Ary – openly discrimat agast gays and lbians.

Mothers and fathers lose child ctody simply bee they are gay or lbian, and gay people are nied the right to marry.

ANTI-GAY AND ANTI-EQUALY SPEECH

One state even tried to fence lbians and gay men out of the procs ed to pass laws.

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

In 1992 Colorado enacted Amendment 2, which repealed existg state laws and barred future laws protectg lbians, gay men and bisexuals om discrimatn. We mt nclu that Amendment 2 classifi homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY EQUALITY SPEECH

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