Jonathan Allen isn’t just a defensive tackle for the Washington Football Team-he’s also tackling issues of youth homelessness. He also serves on the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee and the Committee on House Administration.Jonathan Allen Defensive tackle, Washington Football Team Photograph by Jeff Elkins He is the Vice Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, a Senior Democratic Whip, and Freshman Representative to the House Democratic Steering & Policy Committee. I urge all to join us in this important struggle.Ĭongressman Jamie Raskin represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, which includes Montgomery, Frederick, and Carroll counties. 2282), a bipartisan bill to provide all LGBT Americans comprehensive federal protection against discrimination. I remain committed to working with my colleagues to push equality forward-that’s why I joined 194 House colleagues in cosponsoring the Equality Act (H.R. “We will not back down from demanding inclusivity, equal rights and protection, respect, and dignity for the LGBT community. Let us remember we are the heirs to the great civilizing movements of the last century-from civil rights to women’s rights to the organizing movement for LGBTQ+ rights-and we’re not turning back. “Pride Month is marked with the pain of these events and others, but we will endure. Not even halfway through 2017, the number of transgender Americans murdered has already reached double digits.
In the last few weeks, we turned our eyes toward Chechnya as we learned of the Russian government’s human rights violations committed against gay men-wrongfully tortured, jailed, and killed. “Last year-during Pride Month-we witnessed with shock and horror the massacre of 49 Americans at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, FL. Arthur, and countless others who are the quiet conquerors of our nation’s ugly history of denying basic rights to individuals based on nothing more than who they love. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the land. “In 2015, millions rejoiced over the Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v. The refusal of their home state to honor their marriage in Maryland led to the historic Supreme Court decision sweeping away marriage discrimination.
“In 2013, Jim Obergefell married his dying partner John Arthur on the tarmac of BWI-Thurgood Marshall Airport because they could not get married in their home state of Ohio.
In 2012, it was my honor to lead the floor fight in the State Senate for marriage equality we became the first state in the nation to pass marriage equality without being told we had to do so by our state Supreme Court, the first state south of the Mason-Dixon line to pass it, and then the first to defend same-sex marriage on the ballot. “I’m honored to represent the 8th Congressional District of Maryland, home to a diverse and robust LGBTQ+ community. I’m a proud member of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and remain an unshakeable ally of the LGBTQ+ community, which has struggled against pervasive legal and social discrimination and continues to fight for equal rights in the workplace and in every domain of social life. "This Pride Month, we honor LGBTQ+ Americans whose courage and patriotism have transformed America.
( WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) released the following statement in recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) Pride Month, commemorated during the month of June:
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