Biden gives historic interview to LGBTQ newspaper
Source: NBC News
Sept. 16, 2024, 6:20 PM EDT
President Joe Biden’s administration is widely considered to be the most pro-LGBTQ in history, and as he enters his final months in the White House, Biden sat for an historic interview with one of the country’s oldest LGBTQ news outlets.
In a wide-ranging interview published Monday in the Washington Blade, a D.C.-based LGBTQ newspaper founded more than half a century ago, Biden reiterated his commitment to the community while also speaking broadly about former President Donald Trump’s policies regarding the LGBTQ community and sharing his views on Project 2025. The interview is the first time a sitting president has spoken exclusively with an LGBTQ newspaper, according to the Blade.
“My dad used to say that everyone’s entitled to be treated with dignity,” Biden told the paper. “As a consequence of that, most of the things that I’ve done have related to just [what] I think is basic fairness and basic decency.”
Biden expressed admiration for the many milestones the community has reached over his lifetime, from the Stonewall Riots of 1969 to the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” while he was vice president. The Blade also highlighted “major pro-LGBTQ moves” on Biden’s watch, including legal challenges to state laws targeting transgender people and the response to the global mpox outbreak in 2022. They noted that Biden has also appointed more LGBTQ officials to his administration than in any other administration in American history.
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Link to Washington Blade ARTICLE - https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/09/16/the-washington-blade-interviews-president-joe-biden/
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I remember watching an interview with VP Biden sometime during Obama's 2nd term stating that marriage equality should be legal before the President had stated public support.
