Annise Parker: ‘Protecting democracy is fundamentally an LGBTQ+ rights issue’
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund Annise Parker on Friday said the protection of democracy is an LGBTQ rights issue. “Protecting democracy is fundamentally an LGBTQ+ rights issue,” she said in her keynote speech at the organization’s International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference that took place in D.C.
Parker in her remarks specifically highlighted former President Donald Trump, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Argentine President-elect Javier Milei.
Parker said the three men “are all focused on the same thing: Holding on to power by creating a demonized minority they can attack.” Parker in her speech also noted lawmakers in Montana and Oklahoma “singled out” and censured two of their colleagues — Montana state Rep.
Zooey Zephyr and Oklahoma state Rep. Mauree Turner — because “they are trans themselves.” Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has proposed to reduce Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Shawn Skelley’s annual salary to $1 “because she is trans,” according to Parker.
