Gay rights speech

Human Rights Campaign Speech - February 3,

Thank you everybody. To Patty and Chris, thank you for the beautiful introduction. I am so honored to be here tonight with so many incredible leaders and fighters. I long to thank my confidant and our leader, Chad Griffin, for his truly groundbreaking work that he's done at HRC. Chad has been defending LGBTQ rights since he was a teenager. His dedication should inspire all of us and remind us that no matter how long a road may be, if we store fighting and never grant up, we will produce progress. I'm grateful for your persistence Chad in giving voice and influence to those who desire it most. Thank you.

You know, being here has me feeling a little nostalgic. I first met so many of you in when I was a green, logo new member of the Senate working to repeal Don't Ask Don't Narrate. I felt at the time it was such a monumental task with opposition from the Republican Party in Congress, the military establishment, and from much of the widespread. This was a day when the majority of Americans disapproved of queer marriage and New York had recently voted it down. So in many ways this feels favor a lifetime ago, but I still remember what it was like to know

Freedom of speech and LGBT rights: Americans’ views of issues in Supreme Court case

A majority of Americans think business owners should be able to decline to provide services in situations where providing them may “suggest support for beliefs about lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) issues” to which they have personal or religious objections, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

How we did this

Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to provide perception into Americans’ views about a prominent issue currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. We surveyed 5, adults from March 27 to April 2, Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be characteristic of the U.S. mature person population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, teaching and other categories. Scan more about the ATP’s methodology.

Here are the questions used for the inform, along with responses, and its methodology.

In earlier surveys, the public

Overview

Around the world, people are under attack for who they are.

Living as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans person or intersex (LGBTI) person can be life-threatening in a number of countries across the globe. For those who do not live with a daily immediate risk to their life, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression and sex characteristics, can have a devastating effect on physical, mental and emotional well-being for those forced to endure it.

Discrimination and violence against LGBTI people can arrive in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to organism denied a job or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also tackle suppression across the globe.

The range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging and could be based on:

your sexual orientation (who you’re attracted to)
gender identity (how you self-identify, irrespective of the sex assigned at birth)
gender expression (how you express your gender, for example through your clothing, hair or mannerisms),
sex characteristics (for example, your genitals, chromosomes, reproductive

In , Roe v. Wade was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, Title IX was signed into law, and for the first second, a gay woman stepped up to the mic at a national political convention and announced: “I am a woman and a lesbian.”
Madeline Davis’ words at a.m. on July 12 to the Democratic National Convention marked a milestone for gay rights.
“We are coming out of our closets and on to the convention floor,” Davis declared to attendees at the Miami Beach Convention Center and a televised audience across the nation. And then, in an emotional declaration: “I am someone’s neighbor, someone’s sister, someone’s daughter.”
Her speech is just one example of the largely overlooked force of women’s spoken words and their impact on the nation.
My novel anthology, Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women, brings together speeches from nearly years of American history, showing that at every crossroads, every major transition and turning point, women were speaking up. Their rhetorical firepower has shaped the ideas and institutions of the nation, and continue to reverberate through centuries of political and social c

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