Jacob Ogles
To mark Pride Month, President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign will partner with LGBTQ organizations on a major paid media campaign.
Team Biden-Harris announced investments in LGBTQ digital and print media nationally and in battleground states. That includes the Human Rights Campaign spending upward of $15 million in paid media.
That will be accompanied by high-profile participation in Pride parades and events. Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a Pride Month kickoff in Los Angeles, in her home state of California, while First Lady Jill Biden participated in a Pittsburgh Pride parade in Pennsylvania.
The campaign touted Biden’s record as the “most pro-equality president in American history,” in contrast to former President Donald Trump’s history of abridging LGBTQ rights.
“Thanks to the tireless work of LGBTQ+ organizers, our community has made enormous strides to equality,” said Sam Alleman, the Biden campaign’s National LGBTQ+ Engagement Director, “and thanks to President Biden, we haven’t just done undone the harm imposed by Trump, we’ve taken more action than ever to expand rights and freedoms for every single American.”
In a release to media, the Biden-Harris campaign stressed that it will treat LGBTQ voters as a potentially critical voting block in the November election. The campaign said 8% of the U.S. population now identifies as LGBTQ, including more than 20% of those ages 18 to 25.
While polling varies on proportions, that’s in line with data released this year by Pew Research Center and the Public Religion Research Institute.
Perhaps more to the point for the campaign, more than 39% of voters listed LGBTQ equality as a “make-or-break” issue, according to HRC PAC polling released in October.
The Biden campaign intends to make the administration’s support of LGBTQ rights central to its campaign, just as a number of Republican-controlled states, including Florida, have targeted LGBTQ rights, particularly for youth.
To the consternation of many Republican Governors, the Biden administration has expanded transgender protections for students and reversed policies like a ban on transgender troops.
“All of that progress is on the line this November. Donald Trump and his MAGA allies attack Americans’ rights and freedoms — and have all but promised to go after the right to love who you love, ban books and restrict surrogacy,” Alleman said.
“This Pride Month, our community will organize, mobilize, and activate around the stakes of this election — and real leaders like President Biden and Vice President Harris that know the United States of America is stronger because of our diversity.”
He said campaign surrogates and officials will prioritize media interviews in battleground states about Biden’s record expanding LGBTQ rights and plans by Republicans to attack those rights if Trump is elected President this Fall.
15 comments
the Truth
June 3, 2024 at 8:50 am
the democrat party is now about gays and trans and black lives matter, pathetic
Tom
June 3, 2024 at 9:22 am
And this bothers you why exactly? According to fredo trump yesterday, “You see them swinging. Look at the African-American vote, right? That’s swinging over to Donald Trump in spades.” I’m sure there is a “gays for trump” or “trans for trump” movement out there somewhere as well. With all that support, November should be a shoo-in.
Dont Say FLA
June 3, 2024 at 12:31 pm
Well it’s Pride Month. If you’re not that into gays and trans, just wait till next month.
Impeach Biden
June 5, 2024 at 7:34 am
Yet military veterans get one day. People that gave their lives for this country get a single day as well. This country has lost its mind. Joe will obviously visit Wilton Manors. That’s where all the Dems go.
Michael K
June 5, 2024 at 2:41 pm
Those are both paid national, and federal holidays. To refresh your memory, there’s “Women’s History Month,” “Black History Month, (even in Florida, still, I think), “Asian American History Month,” and so forth.
So, for Pride Month, feel free to celebrate LGBTQ people all month long, even though you don’t a get paid holiday.
Elvis Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American
June 3, 2024 at 6:31 pm
Good evening America,
The polling from the trusted Elvis Pitts American Political Science [Poly Sci] Division is just in and there is great news.
We are reporting a solid Trump support from 67.2% of Blacks – 72.6% of Hispanics – 87.8% of Jews – and a strong showing of 74.3% of the LGBTQ communitty.
Thank you Sage American Minorities,
Elvis Pitts American
Groomers Of Qanon
June 4, 2024 at 9:34 am
Filthy Qristian groomers run florida
rbruce
June 3, 2024 at 10:52 am
Please explain how there can be homosexuals if there is no definitive definition of what a woman is?
Dont Say FLA
June 3, 2024 at 12:31 pm
For those who give a sheet, it’s in the Bible. Nobody else cares.
Michael K
June 3, 2024 at 1:17 pm
Ask your gay friends. They’ll explain it to you.
Michael K
June 3, 2024 at 2:00 pm
The vast majority (9 out of 10) of Americans know an LGBTQ person: a family member, neighbor, member of their church, school, workplace, or all of the above. One political party in the US is accepting and welcoming – it’s in their platform. Another party seems to take delight in demeaning and dehumanizing LGBTQ people as cheap political pawns. Not everyone in that party – there are exceptions – but they are rare. The hateful words and actions cause great harm to people we know and love.
LGBTQ people have always been here, always will be, and are not going away. Live and let live seems like a more sensible and practical way to live.
Dont Say FLA
June 4, 2024 at 8:54 am
The problem is that G0Ps confuse gay folk with miserable married straight Christian men blowing each other in the bushes at the local park because their wives are so awful, not because they’re into other men
The Christians Are Our Problem
June 4, 2024 at 9:36 am
Will we not talk about ‘the Christian Problem’?
Ocean Joe
June 4, 2024 at 10:40 am
With hopes of not offending everybody, how bout we limit these festivities to one week apiece. We can have gun owners week and Convicted Felons week, too.
TruBluFL
June 4, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Hey Ocean Joe and others, let’s just have one day a year for ya’ll! Happy Bigot’s day! Get your guns and your bibles and just start marching down your local main street! Look at them Bigots, parading around town with their Flags flying high. Use any flag found on Jan 6, 2021 for the National Bigot’s day! Come on ya’ll, take your masks off and get out of the closet.
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