Joe Biden celebrates the ‘return’ of Pride to the White House
Joe Biden notably announced the appointment of a special correspondent for the defense of the rights of the LGBTQI + community around the world.
US President Joe Biden with Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay Prime Minister in US history, by his side.
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US President Joe Biden celebrated the “return” of Pride month to the White House on Friday, appointing a special envoy to defend the rights of the LGBTQI + community and making the Pulse a gay nightclub the scene of a massacre, a “national memorial”.
“Pride is back in the White House”, launched the successor of Donald Trump, during a speech organized for this month of Pride, which marks each year in June in the United States the rights of the homosexual persons, lesbians , bisexual and transgender (LGBT). By his side, Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay premier in US history, recalled the long history of discrimination.
“There have been great leaps forward in this country but everywhere there are reminders of what it feels like to go back, not just with shocking acts of violence like in the Pulse shooting, that this country commemorates now as it should be, but with the everyday life of politics, where rights and equality are called into question, ”said the Minister of Transport.
A “national memorial” gay nightclub
Earlier on Friday, Joe Biden announced the appointment of Jessica Stern as special envoy for the defense of the rights of the LGBTQI + community around the world. Currently director of the NGO OutRight Action International, she will be attached to the State Department and will have a “crucial” role in ensuring that “American diplomacy protects and defends the rights of LGBTQI + people around the world,” said the White House.
Then the 46th President of the United States passed a law making the Orlando, Florida gay nightclub a “national memorial.” Perpetrated on June 12, 2016 by a heavily armed man on behalf of the Islamic State group, the attack on the Pulse left 49 dead, and deeply shocked the country in the middle of Gay Pride month.
The bill had been approved unanimously in early June by the Senate, in a rare moment of political consensus in Washington. “Just over five years ago, the Pulse box, a place of tolerance and joy, had become a place of unspeakable pain and mourning,” Joe Biden said as he signed the law. “And we will never fully recover from it, but we will remember it.”
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