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President Biden kicked off Pride Month this year with a message to LGBTQ+ Americans, posting "your president and my entire Administration have your back."
Former President Trump has been peaceful on social media when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues and railed against trans women’s participation in sports at a recent campaign rally in Vegas.
If it wasn’t already clear, these top two presidential candidates hold distinct views on LGBTQ+ issues.
Throughout his presidency, Biden has used his office to verb support for LGBTQ+ people, celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility and Pride Month, and regularly create social media calls about the issues LGBTQ+ people tackle . His administration has worked to found antidiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as greater access to gender-affirming care.
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Landmark LGBTQ Appointees to the Biden-Harris Administration
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On the road to building a team that “looks like America,” President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have made diversity a priority, and their administration is on track to becoming the most LGBTQ-inclusive in history.
These LGBTQ appointees to the Biden administration, which includes the first openly LGBTQ person and the first transgender person to contain a role requiring Senate confirmation, are shattering barriers in their new roles:
Rachel Levine: Assistant Secretary of Health
Levine will be the first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate, pending Senate hearing. Levine is an experienced physician who oversaw opioid crisis efforts in Pennsylvania and has been at the forefront of the COVID pandemic.
Pete Buttigieg: Transportation Secretary
The former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and a Presidential nominee, Buttigieg will be the first out LGBTQ person in US histor
Biden administration on track to be most LGBTQ-inclusive in U.S. history
President-elect Joe Biden has repeatedly vowed to make LGBTQ rights a priority in his administration. But he won’t be working alone: The former vice president has already tapped LGBTQ appointees for several key roles and gay rights advocates are hopeful that more will be named, including the first out Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate. There’s also a push, should an opening become available, for him to nominate the first openly LGBTQ justice to the Supreme Court.
The Biden-Harris transition team has promoted the president-elect's “commitment to building an administration that looks like America.”
On Sunday, Karine Jean-Pierre, an out lesbian and chief of staff for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, was announced as deputy press secretary, and Pili Tobar, an immigration rights advocate and former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was named deputy White House communications director. Tobar, a lesbian, also worked as a communications director for the Biden campaign.
In November, Carlos Elizondo, who
Pete Buttigieg makes history as 1st openly gay Cabinet member confirmed by Senate
Former presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has made history as the first openly gay Cabinet member in U.S. history to be confirmed by the Senate.
At age 39, Buttigieg also represents another "first" as a millennial and the youngest person nominated to Biden's Cabinet.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the country's first openly bisexual senator, was presiding over the Senate Tuesday and announced the final vote.
As transportation secretary, Buttigieg has pledged to recognize how infrastructure has the might to bridge racial and economic disparities in America, as well as to keep in lockstep with Biden's agenda of fighting climate change and address systems reeling from plummeting ridership amid the coronavirus pandemic.
He will assume a department with 55, employees and a budget of tens of billions of dollars.
Buttigieg tweeted shortly after the confirmation vote that he's "honored and humbled" and "ready to get t