LGBT rights a recurring theme at Obama’s inauguration
Monday's inaugural parade featured seven members from the Midtown-based Atlanta Freedom Bands marching and playing with a 200-plus member band representing the Lesbian & Gay Band Association.
It was quite the gay presidential inaugural day Monday in our nation’s capital. After taking the oath of office for a second term, President Barack Obama delivered an inaugural address that highlighted the issue of equality, including his hope for equal treatment of gay Americans for the nation’s “gay brothers and sisters.” The president, who made mention of the 1969 Stonewall riots, touched upon a theme that “all men are created equal” by mentioning issues from poverty to immigration to women’s equality to homosexuality. Obama said: “We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and she is equal, not just in…
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