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Senate Dems Introduce LGBTQ Pride Month Bill That Won’t Do Much Of Anything
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Senate Democrats introduced a resolution to officially make June “LGBTQ Pride Month.”
“We must always stand with our LGBTQ friends and neighbors” and continue “to fight for equality for all,” said Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown according to Metro Weekly.
The resolution encourages celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month “in order to provide a lasting opportunity for all people in the United States to learn about the discrimination and inequality that the LGBTQ community endured, and continues to endure, and to celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQ community throughout the history of the United States.”
Pride Month, however, has long been celebrated in the U.S. and all over the world during June, in memory of the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, according to the Library of Congress.
“America is right to be proud of the progress we have made to pass on to the next generation a country that is more equal, not less equal. Every June, communities across America celebrate Pride Month and this resolution recognizes the march towards full equality in our country,” said openly-gay Sen. Tammy Baldwin and co-sponsor of the resolution.
Other Senate Democrats supporting the resolution include Dianne Feinstein of California, Kamala Harris of California, Dick Durbin of Illinois, and Al Franken of Minnesota.
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