Dana Rudolph, lesbian activist and founder of GLAAD Media Award-winning blog, Mombian, published an open letter addressed to newly elected US president, Joe Biden, urging him fight for LGBTQ+ equality for the good of LGBTQ+ families. The letter, published in Between the Lines, reads: “My son was just a few months too young to vote in the last election, but watched it with great concern, for its results would directly impact him and his family. Would the next administration be one that treated his family with equality?”
Rudolph referenced a 2012 report where Biden openly expressed his support for marriage equality, with contemporary president, Obama, doing so only a few weeks later. She wrote: “I hope that as president, you will continue to champion equality for all families. I am encouraged that you have named two lesbian moms to your administration: Karine Jean-Pierre as principal deputy press secretary and Pili Tobar as deputy White House communications director…While their work will not revolve around LGBTQ+ issues, I hope that their presence will continue to remind you that all parents and our children deserve equality.”
Rudolph hopes Biden will continue to acknowledge LGBTQ+ families in order to ‘be the president America’s children need’: “I hope our voices – broadly speaking, not just those in your administration — are among the many you will listen to in order to guide our country forward. I am not asking you to prioritize LGBTQ+ families above any others but rather to ensure that your policies include and protect us equally so that we have the same chance to thrive. The more Americans who thrive, the stronger and better our country will be as a whole. I want the country in which my son reaches adulthood to be one of equality, justice and compassion, not only for LGBTQ+ people and families but for all.”
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