#Repost @adameli ・・・ Matt Baume reports for @them “Joe Biden set himself even further apart from Donald Trump in an interview this week, pledging that in his first 100 days he will sign legislation to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Trump administration, in contrast, has opposed such legislation for years, and has advanced policies to block LGBTQ+ people from receiving equal treatment in employment, housing, education, and more.
In correspondence with highly-regarded Philadelphia journalist and community organizer Mark Segal for a piece published in Philadelphia Gay News, Biden said that signing the Equality Act is one of his top priorities. The bill would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act, extending protections already provided on the basis of race, age, military status, and more.
Currently, LGBTQ+ Americans experience a patchwork of protections that vary widely from state to state and town to town. In many places, it’s legal to evict someone, expel them from school, deny them a loan, or fire them simply for suspecting that they might be queer” https://www.instagram.com/p/CHIkBDTgc43/?igshid=14h5l55tdmkzw
