By The One Colorado Team
We're
just a few days away from the first-ever Presidential Forum on LGBTQ
Issues — hosted by Angelica Ross of Pose, marking the first national
forum of the 2020 Presidential Campaign to be hosted by a transgender
person.
Visibility
and representation are important. That is why we must hear the
candidates perspectives on the issues facing LGBTQ Americans, and we
must ensure that the next President of the United States is a champion
for LGBTQ Americans and their families.
President
Trump claims he's "done very well" by our community, but GLAAD counts
more than 124 anti-LGBTQ policy and rhetoric attacks from the Trump
Administration.
As soon as he took office, he began to roll back rights and protections we worked so hard for. He withdrew an Obama directive
on the treatment of transgender students, reinstated a ban — which
Obama had ended — on transgender people serving in the military, and has
stripped anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people in the
Affordable Care Act. And just recently, the Justice Department directed
that federal anti-discrimination workplace protections do not cover
sexual orientation or gender identity.
We couldn't do this work without you. Don't forget to join us this
Friday to watch the first Presidential Forum on LGBTQ issues at Blush
and Blu!
