We want straight people to not only believe that LGBTQ people deserve the same treatment as cisgender, straight people, but to also fight for our rights as queer individuals. In fact, what we are fighting for could actually be boiled down to one thing: we want everyone who’s not a member of the LGBTQ community to become an ally. We also march for the lives of transgender women of color, who are being murdered at an alarming rate. We march to end workplace discrimination, to receive equal access to healthcare, and to serve openly in the military. It’s also a time, like it was nearly five decades ago, when we march not just for tolerance but for acceptance. Seeing a bunch of fellow queers swarm the streets - kissing loved ones in public, proudly wearing fabulously flamboyant outfits - is not only empowering, but also a reminder that while we often feel alone, the LGBTQ community exists in great numbers. It’s a time where we congregate to experience what it’s like to be the majority in a large, public space. It’s a celebration of its diverse members. Bush before retiring from the Foreign Service.Pride’s now evolved to mean a number of things to the LGBTQ community. ambassador to Romania under President George W. "It really seems like forever ago, and the country has changed in so many ways and even large swaths of the world have changed," said Michael Guest, a career diplomat who became the first openly gay ambassador confirmed by the Senate, less than three years after Hormel's appointment. In May 1999, over continued opposition, Clinton used a recess appointment - appointing someone in an acting capacity while the Senate is adjourned - to make him ambassador.
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Hormel's nomination was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in November 1997, but social conservatives blocked a full Senate vote to confirm him for over a year and a half. LGBTQ advocacy group, who Clinton nominated to be ambassador to Luxembourg. It's a stark contrast to the fight over James Hormel, a wealthy LGBT activist and co-founder of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. Both in our word and our deed, our values of inclusiveness and strength in diversity will be on full display," Price told ABC News. "The point that the secretary has made and that President Biden himself has made is that we need a national security workforce that looks like the country we represent, and that's especially important for the Department of State that's speaking to rest of world.
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Instead, it was seen as one of many diverse picks, along with his deputy Jalina Porter, the first Black woman in her role, at an agency that has long struggled with diversity. His appointment as State Department spokesperson, announced last month, made few headlines because of his years in progressive foreign policy circles and prior public affairs roles. Throughout Trump's term, he was a frequent critic, appearing on cable news and leading policy and communications for National Security Action, a progressive advocacy group of former Obama administration officials. He left the agency in February 2017, resigning with a Washington Post op-ed that expressed alarm at President Donald Trump and his approach to U.S. Ned Price is a longtime national security hand who spent over a decade at the CIA, including three years serving as the National Security Council spokesperson under President Barack Obama. Blinken before he delivers remarks to the media at the U.S. Department Spokesperson Ned Price introduces Secretary of State Antony J.