Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Biden Admin Will Have LGBTQ+ Envoy, Allow Pride Flags at Embassies
CNN reports. Donald Trump’s administration had left the envoy position vacant — it had been established by President Barack Obama — and did not allow embassies to fly the Pride flag on official flagpoles without special permission, although they could display it inside or on exterior walls.Appointing the envoy is “a matter, I think, of some real urgency,” Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Randy Berry had held the envoy post during the Obama administration.“We’ve seen violence directed against LGBTQI people around the world increase,” Blinken said. “We’ve seen, I believe, the highest number of murders of transgender people, particularly women of color, that we’ve seen ever.” That’s definitely true in the U.S., where at.
