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Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Human Rights Campaign Spring Equity Convention in Washington
Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Human Rights Campaign Spring Equity Convention in Washington, Friday, March 6, 2015. Biden said the same human rights that African Americans fought for in Selma, Alabama, are at stake for LGBT rights activists today.
WASHINGTON — LGBT Americans are fighting for the same rights to equality that African Americans fought for decades ago, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the historic march in Selma, Alabama.
An early supporter of same-sex marriage, Biden sought to draw parallels between the LGBT rights and civil rights movements as he addressed a summit of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT rights group.
Just as he could never have imagined serving alongside a black president, Biden said, he never anticipated seeing a time when gays would serve in the military openly, the Supreme Court would strike down anti-sodomy laws and a majority of U.S. states would legalize same-sex marriage.
“Selma and Stonewall were basically the same movement,” Biden said, invoking the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots in New York that marked the symbolic start of the modern gay rights movement.
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