"Former President Joe Biden will be honored Friday with the Chris Abele Impact Award at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute's 41st International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference, an annual Washington, D.C., gathering that has become both thermometer and barometer for the political fortunes of LGBTQ+ Americans. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter."
"For Biden, who left office in January, the award marks a capstone in what LGBTQ+ advocates widely view as the most inclusive administration in U.S. history: one that appointed a record number of LGBTQ+ officials, reinstated and expanded federal protections, restored transgender military service, and elevated barrier-breaking queer and trans leaders such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Admiral Rachel Levine, Ambassador Chantale Wong, and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre."
"The moment arrives as LGBTQ+ people, particularly trans Americans, under the second administration of President Donald Trump, face accelerating political aggression, misinformation campaigns, and state-sanctioned erasure. And it comes as LGBTQ+ candidates and elected officials themselves enter the next cycle with what Victory Institute President and CEO Evan Low describes as a rare, almost paradoxical blend of "urgency and hope.""
Joe Biden will be honored with the Chris Abele Impact Award at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute's 41st International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes an administration that appointed a record number of LGBTQ+ officials, reinstated and expanded federal protections, restored transgender military service, and elevated queer and trans leaders including Pete Buttigieg, Rachel Levine, Chantale Wong, and Karine Jean-Pierre. The recognition arrives as LGBTQ+ people, especially trans Americans, face accelerating political aggression, misinformation campaigns, and state-sanctioned erasure under President Donald Trump's second administration. Victory Institute leaders describe the community's situation as marked by both urgency and hope.
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