Inauguration Day for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris seems like a great time to review their key commitments to the LGBTQ+ community.
“Throughout her groundbreaking career, [Harris] has been an outspoken advocate for the LGBTQ community, standing with us when many, even sometimes those within her own party, did not,” said Alphonso David, President of the Human Rights Campaign
“As President,” promises joebiden.com, Biden “will stand with the LGBTQ+ community to ensure America finally lives up to the promise on which it was founded: equality for all. He will provide the moral leadership to champion equal rights for all LGBTQ+ people, fight to ensure our laws and institutions protect and enforce their rights, and advance LGBTQ+ equality globally.”
Biden and Harris are committed to:
- Protecting LGBTQ+ people from discrimination.
- Supporting LGBTQ+ youth.
- Protecting LGBTQ+ individuals from violence and work to end the epidemic of violence against the transgender community, particularly transgender women of color.
- Expanding access to high-quality health care for LGBTQ+ individuals.
- Ensuring fair treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals in the criminal justice system.
- Collecting data necessary to fully support the LGBTQ+ community.
- Advancing global LGBTQ+ rights and development.”
- Making enactment of the Equality Act a top legislative priority in the first 100 Days and “direct his cabinet to ensure immediate and full enforcement of the Equality Act across all federal departments and agencies.
As summed up on the Human Rights Campaign website, the Equality Act, introduced to Congress by Rhode Island’s US Rep. David Cicilline, provides “crucial federal legislation that would finally guarantee explicit protections for LGBTQ people under our nation’s existing civil rights laws.”
“It’s clear the Biden-Harris ticket marks our nation’s most pro-equality ticket in history,” said Alphonso David, President of the Human Rights Campaign.
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