House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Twitter May 17, delivering commencement address to Smith college The coronavirus pandemic has upended normality and the once seemingly inevitable full equality for LGBTQ people.
One year ago, on May 17, the US House of Representatives passed the historic Equality Act, legislation that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
But Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to bring the nondiscrimination legislation up for a vote, leaving LGBTQ equality dangling as the Trump administration meticulously strips away hard-won rights and the conservative-dominant U.S.
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