that replayed his 2012 “Meet the Press” interview in which he came out in support of gay marriage.Īnd nowhere is that more visible than in the political evolution of this year’s Democratic ticket. “Long before Donald Trump struggled to read the letters ‘LGBTQ’ off a teleprompter last week, Hillary Clinton stood before the United Nations and boldly declared that gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights,” Griffin said.Ī night earlier, the Democratic delegates erupted with applause during a video introduction for Vice President Joseph R.
Speakers on the final night of the convention, including Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin, underscored that the Democratic Party is the original home of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. “Allowing people to get there is always the answer.” “It was hard,” he said of the push to include marriage equality in the platform four years ago.
The Democratic party has evolved in “an incredibly short period of time,” said New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman Raymond Buckley, the first openly gay vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.
