First Lady Warns Trump is ‘Dangerous to the LGBTQ Community’ at HRC Event
thegavoice.comDelivering a keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality in Action event Friday, First lady Jill Biden warned former President Donald Trump is “a bully” who is “dangerous to the LGBTQ community.” Her appearance at the three-day volunteer and board gathering at the Sheraton Pentagon City in Arlington, Va., comes as part of the Biden-Harris reelection campaign’s “Out for Biden” program, which aims to “mobilize LGBTQ+ voters, communities, and leaders across the country.” “Today, this community is under attack,” Biden said. “Rights are being stripped away.
freedoms are eroding. More and more state laws are being passed targeting this community. Just last month, we had to fend off more than 50 anti-gay amendments that Republicans tried to force into the government funding bill.” “These were extreme measures aimed directly at this community — measures that would have limited health care and weakened protections for same sex couples,” she said. “And they served only one purpose to spread hate and fear.” In a nod to her long career as an educator, Biden said, “History teaches us that our rights and freedoms don’t disappear overnight.
They disappear slowly. Subtly. Silently.” She continued, “A book ban. A court decision. A ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. One group of people loses their rights and then another.
And another. Until one day you wake up and no longer live in a democracy … This is our chapter of history and it’s up to us how it ends.” Biden then highlighted some of the advancements for LGBTQ rights secured under the Biden-Harris administration. “Thanks to President Biden, marriage equality is now the law of the land,” she said. “He ended the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
