President Joe Biden’s administration is widely accepted the most pro-LGBTQ in historyand entering his final months in the White House, Biden sat down for a historic interview with one of the nation’s oldest LGBTQ news outlets.
In extensive interview On Monday in the Washington Blade, a DC-based LGBTQ newspaper founded more than half a century ago, Biden reiterated his commitment to the community as he spoke extensively about former President Donald Trump’s policies on the LGBTQ community and shared his thoughts on Project 2025. According to the Blade, the interview marks the first time a sitting president has spoken to an exclusively LGBTQ newspaper.
“My father used to say that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity,” Biden told the newspaper. “As a result, a lot of the work I did was just closed [what] I think that the main thing is justice and the main decency”.
Since the Stonewall riots of 1969, Biden has said, “”don’t ask don’t tell” during his tenure as vice president. The Blade also highlighted “major pro-LGBTQ movements” on Biden’s watch, including legal challenges to and backlash against state laws targeting transgender people. global mpox epidemic in 2022. They noted that Biden also appointed more LGBTQ officials to his administration than any other administration in American history.
“One of the advantages of most of the openly gay people that I’ve worked with is that they’re braver than most people,” Biden said.
Biden said the emergence of LGBTQ representation in government is a reflection of America itself, and he praised recent developments. Sarah McBride’s major winA senator from his home state of Delaware who is set to become the first transgender member of Congress. “We’re on the right track,” said McBride’s victory.
Despite such progress for the community, Biden also spoke of the challenges facing all Americans. described Project 2025The conservative agenda proposed for Trump’s potential second term is “filled with nothing but hatred” for LGBTQ people, and he said that’s what conservatives are looking for. to ban books in schools “Instead of making history, we want to erase history.” There is Trump, the Republican presidential candidate the publicly rejected Project 2025 and said “it has nothing to do with it.”
Biden later criticized Trump’s record on LGBTQ issues, saying, “Trump is a different breed of cat.”
He also vowed to keep working to get through The Equality Act, a bill that federally prohibits discrimination even after leaving office based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
“We have to get through it. So I’m going to do my best to be part of the outside voices and hopefully the foundations I’m going to rebuild will speak to equality as a whole,” she said.
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