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Barack Obama Addresses LGBTQ Community on Stonewall Day: "Your Voice Can Make an Enormous Difference"
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hollywoodreporter.comBarack Obama addressed the LGBTQ community and its allies at Pride Live's third annual Stonewall Day virtual event on Friday.
The former president highlighted the civil rights movement that sparked social and political change as well as the ongoing right for equality. "We're almost 51 years since the night when the patrons at the Stonewall Inn stood up for their rights ...
because of the movement they sparked, and the decades [of work] that followed, marriage equality became the law of the land five years ago," he said.
Obama noted that this day is about celebrating and reflecting on the struggle of LGBTQ rights, and realizing that progress doesn't happen on its own.
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