First openly gay cabinet member

Love conquers hate. Recommendations included ensuring consistent administrative implementation of Bostock v. Clayton County across all agencies enforcing civil rights statutes and provisions and appointing openly-LGBTQ cabinet officials, justices, judges, executive staff and ambassadors.

To learn more, please read our Privacy Policy. Queerty, therefore, did indeed report in February that Grenell was the "first openly gay Cabinet secretary in history," before later describing Buttigieg as the "first out Cabinet member.". Let this important moment for our movement serve as a reminder to every LGBTQ young person: you too can serve your country in any capacity you earn the qualifications to hold.

Among the notable appointments is Scott Bessent, who has been nominated as treasury secretary. Buttigieg is also an outspoken advocate of the Equality Act — critically important, bipartisan legislation that would finally provide clear protections against discrimination for LGBTQ people across the country.

Members of the media can reach our press office at: or email press hrc. I look forward to working with Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the entire Biden cabinet. Accept More Information. Before becoming acting director of national intelligence, he led an effort to decriminalize homosexuality in.

Donate Today. Richard Grenell is the first openly gay person to hold a Cabinet-level position. HRC recently released the Blueprint for Positive Changean important brief that includes 85 individual policy recommendations, reaching across the federal government, aimed at bettering the daily lives of LGBTQ people at home and abroad.

To make a general inquiry, please visit our contact page. Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has made history as the first openly gay Cabinet member in U.S. history to be confirmed by the Senate. Congratulations to Secretary Pete Buttigieg on his historic confirmation.

[1] Furthermore, inDemetrios Marantis became the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in a cabinet-level position in the Cabinet of the United States, serving in the Cabinet. By clicking "GO" below, you will be directed to a website operated by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, an independent c 3 entity.

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Shop Now. You are leaving HRC. In addition to the politicians listed below, Jenny Durkan, who served as United States attorney for the Western District of Washington from tois believed to be the first openly gay United States attorney. President Biden promised to deliver an administration representative of the diversity of this nation, and this confirmation is a significant achievement toward that goal.

The U. Senate in a historic and overwhelmingly bipartisan vote confirmed Pete Buttigieg to be Secretary of Transportation. If confirmed, Bessent would become the highest-ranking openly gay official in U.S. history. Pete Buttigieg served as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana from After coming out as gay inButtigieg became the first openly LGBTQ executive in the state and the highest elected official in Indiana to come out.

In earlyPete Buttigieg was the first openly gay candidate to run for a Democratic presidential nomination, where he became the first openly LGBTQ person of any party to earn a delegate and win a state caucus or primary. This confirmation breaks through a barrier that has existed for too long; where LGBTQ identity served as an impediment to nomination or confirmation at the highest level of government.

Contact Us To make a general inquiry, please visit our contact page. In latehe was re-elected to his second term as mayor of South Bend with more than 80 percent of the vote. His credentials as a hedge fund manager and his extensive experience in finance make him well-suited for this critical role.