Obama gay rights

The Obama Administration continues to engage systematically with governments around the world to advance the rights of LGBT persons. The Administration’s leadership has included various public statements and resolutions at the UN. Indeed, we gay folks had gotten used to grousing about the President. We noticed the way he dragged his feet after promising to repeal the ban on military service; we felt betrayed when his Justice Department insisted, as George W. To gay Americans, this did not look like the fierce urgency of now.

Over nearly two decades in politics, President Obama has staked out changing positions on gay rights. Here are the biggest milestones. Our privacy statement is changing. Changes will be in effect July 31, With less than a year left in his presidency, Barack Obama and his administration are taking steps to cement his legacy in key areas.

Obama helped lift the ban on LGBTQ people serving openly in the military, granted federal contractors protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and put a historic number of LGBTQ people in high-ranking positions. In a historic move, on May 9, President Barack Obama announced his support for full marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. What we found was stark, but unsurprising. In his historic announcement, he stated:.

Obama, in other words, began his political journey sympathetic to gay rights, but not deeply informed about them. They were not one of his core political priorities. While the world was watching America's gay rights transformation, the Obama administration was pursuing a quieter mission to export the same freedoms overseas to places like sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and eastern Europe. The U. It was a mission animated in part by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's declaration that "gay rights are human rights.

Once the residence of noted gay rights activist Henry Gerber, the home was where the nation's first chartered LGBT rights organization, the Society for Human Rights, was formed in The Henry Gerber House is one of nine LGBT sites that have been designated as a landmark or historic place during the Obama Administration. .

Over nearly two decades in politics, President Obama has staked out changing positions on gay rights. Here are the biggest milestones. .

This piece is part of a series on Obama’s legacy that The Huffington Post will be publishing over the next week. WASHINGTON ― No president in history has done more for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights than Barack Obama. Obama helped lift the ban on LGBTQ people serving openly. .

How Obama Became the Gay-Rights President The inside story of his political evolution. .