(Photo Credits: Screengrab from Vice President Kamala Harris’ Official Twitter Account @VP)
Vice President Kamala Harris made history on Saturday by attending the Capital Pride Walk and Rally held in downtown Washington with her husband, Doug Emhoff. This makes her the first sitting vice president to do so.
Harris wore a shirt that reads “Love is love” while the second gentleman’s shirt reads “Love first.” They greeted fellow attendees and participants “Happy Pride” and even took the time to speak to them.
The @SecondGentleman and I stopped by Capital Pride today! pic.twitter.com/vjx1k9DD5z
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 12, 2021
Harris also delivered a rousing speech, calling for the passage of the Equality Act in the Senate. Equality Act is a landmark LGBTQ rights bill that has been passed by the House last February.
“We celebrate all of the accomplishments, but we need to pass the Equality Act,” Harris said. “We need to make sure that our transgender community and our youth are all protected. We need, still, protections around employment and housing. There is so much more work to do, and I know we are committed.”
Equality Act “prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system.” To know more about the bill, read here.
Harris also posted a message on her Instagram account wishing the LGBTQ community Happy Pride. Her post reads, “LGBTQ Americans, I want you to know: We see you. We hear you.” She added, “President Joe Biden and I will not rest until everyone has equal protection under the law. Happy #Pride.”
So far, the only thing the #Biden administration has had to offer is platitudes, rhetoric, and window dressing. I guess showing up for photo ops can replace a public option, $15 an hour minimum wage, forgiving college debt, social justice/police brutality, and ramping up the forever wars
I see everything he has done and I’m in Canada, sad that you can’t see how USA improved fast since he is there.
He killed the pipeline and Canadian jobs, all on his first day. Yeah, he’s a peach.
lol, u think a pipeline is ALL off our jobs? lolll
Get educated!
how singularly focussed..the pipeline went through and desecrated Native lands….is that worth some consideration or is white privilege the order of the day…..have a seat with the mean girl above…share some acne meds.
In addition, I appreciate the diversity, dignity, transparency, maturity, compassion and honesty Biden has brought to the white house. Something we haven’t seen since President Obama left.
We’re still closer than we were 6 months ago so are you gonna bitch or are you going to be thankful and get out there to help?
That, is because you exist for the drama of: racism, sexism, cruelty and crimes of the sick-criminal-minds of the last last man posing as an American President.
exactly
We’re also seeing major US mainstream media outlets reporting disturbing negative turns in now tense relations with China and Russia, growing instability in the Middle East, inflation increasing at a staggering rate, worker shortages, product shortages, worsening Congressional gridlock, and growing social/political divisions. All of this with the Administration bringing forth few action plans to address them.
lol let them fix what dump did…
there was nothing to fix. There is something wrong here…look how everything is failing. omg in only 6 months and the US is failing. Something is going on that we dont know about. He must be impeached with Kamala..id rather have Nancy until 2024 than these two horrible people.
lol
!!! You’ve got to be kidding, nothing to fix; you’re the kind of person that could just walk on dead bodies, “nope, nothing wrong here” (eye-roll)
Overt d’Espirit:
What none of us have asked: did Vice President Harris attend any “Memorial Day” Parades?
Will she attend any “Fourth Of July” Parades?
Good questions.
Utterly pointless questions.
Well, “Kasper the friendly ghost” I guess she’s got bigger-more pressing matters at hand; to be partying-celebrating. I can appreciate staying busy rather than every time, you looked around, tRump was golfing when he should have been fixing the country. But NO, he was busy creating derision w/reporters, other world-leader/our allies, among the US citizens of color; white people, LGBTQ, women and the disabled. Dividing to conquer, democracy, which has really served all of the aforementioned to a very high degree in civilizing humanity period world-over. Ripping the country apart from within, standing with the murderer Putin, “bending over for… Read more »
If she chose to go she will!!!!! Republican azz-holes wanted her to go to the border when they said so. Who is the hell do they think they are? She’s a free woman and can go anywhere she pleases. This is 2021 not 1821. We don’t jump when you all say jump!! You asking did she go to Memorial Day parades. Did you go? I’m sick and tired of privileged azz people like you and your ownership way of thinking. You don’t have a dam thing to do with where she go or don’t go. I bet that fat-azz Trump… Read more »
Well the trump administration was aggressive in it’s words and action against the LBGTQ community. I would score this better. While you are so immersed in criticizing, first, what have you done and second recognize that there is a hostile senate committed to blocking every single thing Biden does. I would urge you to learn how the system works rather than eat cotton candy and be a mean girl. Have a seat…actually have several seats.
I’ve posted here a couple of times but each time I was censored, I guess freedom of speech is not welcome here
No it’s not. You can’t call people names and swear or do whatever you want here.
Do that elsewhere.
I’m still undecided but I think this is a very significant step towards equality
. . .I cannot imagine, what you’d be undecided about, what do you need, an all out civil/domestic war? Didn’t the insurrection at the capitol do it for you? Half of WHITE America, fighting to abolish the rights of people of color across the board… Read about the nazis, and what they did, then decide, and since you’re on here, you must be at least bi- if not gay, the list goes on and on about the the victims of murder in which he chose to profit from, hitler; WAKE_UPPPPPP!!!!!!!