Her responsibilities will involve ensuring that US diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect LGBTQ rights around the world. You know, being able to love yourself, love whomever you love.”īiden is naming Jessica Stern as a special diplomatic envoy at the State Department for LGBTQ rights. … And above all, Pride Month stands for love. It stands for courage, the courage of all those in previous generations. “For this community, for our nation, for the world, Pride Month represents so much. “Pride is back at the White House,” Biden said to applause. The LGBTQ community repeatedly criticized Trump for not acknowledging the community during June, the annual anniversary of the birth of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
In addition to speaking out on the importance of expanding protections for gay and trans people, Biden was marking a sharp pivot from Donald Trump’s presidency. The president has been championing the Equality Act, a bill passed in the House that would widely ban discrimination against LGBTQ people, since his earliest days in the White House.
