Biden Slams Trump-Pence Administration for Undermining LGBTQ Rights, ‘Giving Safe Harbor to Hate’

Today, May 17, is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released a statement marking the occasion and slammed the Trump-Pence administration for doing “everything it can to undermine LGBTQ+ rights” in the wake of the Obama-Biden administration’s historic achievements.

Wrote Biden in a statement: “Instead of building on this progress, the Trump-Pence Administration has done everything it can to undermine LGBTQ+ rights: giving safe harbor to hate and rolling back protections for LGBTQ+ persons, blocking the ability of transgender individuals to openly serve their country, denying LGBTQ+ people access to critical health care, and failing to address the epidemic of violence against transgender people, among other odious policies. Today, many LGBTQ+ people in the United States live in fear, and LGBTQ+ activists in other countries, who are often fighting desperately for their rights and personal safety, are no longer sure that the United States is their friend and ally.”

“Today, on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, I stand with LGBTQ+ people and their allies around the world to celebrate and champion the inherent dignity and worth of all persons, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity,” added Biden. “Around the globe, including here at home, brave LGBTQ+ activists are fighting for equal protection under the law, freedom from violence, and recognition of their fundamental human rights. The United States should have their backs. We belong at the forefront of this struggle — speaking out, standing strong for our most dearly held values. We should be sending a clear message that bigotry is bigotry, prejudice is prejudice, and hate is hate, no matter where we find it. American leadership must mean moral leadership in the fight for equality for all.”

“The Obama-Biden Administration took unprecedented steps to ensure that our government delivered real progress on the promise of equality, both at home and abroad,” Biden explained. “From signing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law, to repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ to supporting marriage equality, we fought to advance the civil liberties of LGBTQ+ people in the United States and, for the first time ever, established the advancement of LGBTQ+ equality as a foreign policy goal.”

“As President, I will reinvigorate and expand U.S. efforts to advance the human rights of LGBTQ+ people at home and around the world,” Biden continued. “The United States will again be a beacon of hope for people anywhere in the world who suffer violence and discrimination for the simple fact of who they are or who they love. We will strengthen the coalition of countries determined to eliminate discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Anything less would be un-American.”

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DC Comics adds mutant shark bottoming to official canon. Wait, what?

Took them long enough.

The new DC Comics animated film Justice League Dark: Apokolips War has confirmed that the bisexual detective John Constantine has an active sex life. The film reveals that Constantine used to date King Shark, a giant mutant half human-half shark, and that Constantine enjoyed bottoming with his ex.

After the clip went viral with fans debating the true meaning, one of the writers of the film has confirmed the meaning on Twitter. Mairghread Scott, who penned the screenplay, clarified that yes, Constantine did bottom for King Shark.

“I can’t believe they let me write this,” she admitted.

Related: ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ finally showed John Constantine hooking up with a dude

“I was expecting to hear from twitter folks thirsty for tortured, sad, bearded Superman, but I truly underestimated thirsty monster-f*cker twitter,” she added in another tweet.

The supernatural detective John Constantine earned a following, in part, for being one of the first openly bisexual characters in DC Comics canon. Over the years, several big and small screen adaptations of the character have addressed his sexual fluidity in different ways, or met with controversy for ignoring that aspect of his personality.

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Trump Adviser and Sycophant Peter Navarro: ‘I’m Glad Mr. Obama Has a New Job as Joe Biden’s Press Secretary’ — WATCH

Trump adviser Peter Navarro responded to former President Barack Obama’s criticism of the current administration’s disastrous handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Nearly 90,000 U.S. citizens have died from COVID-19 under Donald Trump’s watch since it began.

Said Navarro, a trade adviser: “I’m glad Mr. Obama has a new job as Joe Biden’s press secretary. I know for the record that in his speech that I read there was no mention of manufacturing, no mention of China. As far as I’m concerned, his administration was a kumbaya of incompetence in which we saw millions of manufacturing jobs go off to China. His new normal was a flatline in terms of wage growth.”

“I’m happy to report that this president, Donald J. Trump in three and a half years built the most beautiful economy in modern history,” Navarro continued. “And the Chinese did take that down in about 30 days but we are in the process right now of rebuilding that and this president, Donald J. Trump, is the one who has the skills to do so.”

The full mind-boggling interview:

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