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The White House senior communications team is all female and includes two lesbians of color: Karine Jean-Pierre (above), who is Black, is principal deputy press secretary, while Pili Tobar, who is.

Sign up to have blog posts delivered straight to your inbox! Also surely the first Martinique-born press secretary and quite possibly the first native French speaker. For roughly the first two centuries of American independence, no black or gay person and no woman could aspire to such a senior position.

As of January , 37 members of the LGBTQ community are known to have held office in the United States Congress. In the House, 33 LGBTQ people held office; in the Senate, 4 held office. Two people, Tammy Baldwin and Kyrsten Sinema, served in the House and were later elected into the Senate. The earliest known LGBTQ congressperson was Ed Koch, who began his term in the House in The.

This post originally appeared in the Washington Post. Last month, President Trump named Richard Grenell, the U. ambassador to Germany, acting director of national intelligence.

The White House senior communications team is all female and includes two lesbians of color: Karine Jean-Pierre (above), who is Black, is principal deputy press secretary, while Pili Tobar, who is.

Equality Federation hosted an amazing fundraising reception on April 24th at the Studio Theater in Washington DC. With the help of Board Members, Sam Nitz and Kellan Baker, we had 14 sponsors and over attendees! Our speakers were two amazing transgender activists, Sarah McBride from the Center for American Progress and Raffi Freedman-Gurspan from the White House.

White House officials frequently tout the diversity of President Biden’s administration, including that roughly 15 percent of all appointees identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and.

These LGBTQ appointees to the Biden administration, which includes the first openly LGBTQ person and the first transgender person to hold a role requiring Senate confirmation, are shattering barriers in their new roles:. Rachel Levine : Assistant Secretary of Health. Levine will be the first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate, pending Senate hearing.