Vice President Joe Biden spoke to over 1,000 LGBT rights supporters at the Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles gala on March 22. Vice President Biden’s inspiring remarks in support of global LGBT equality represent the latest step from a White House that has made fairness and dignity for LGBT people one of its top priorities.

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BY ASHLEY ALMAN

Vice President Joe Biden retreaded his support for gay marriage in a speech at Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) annual steak-fry fundraiser on Sunday. Referring to a 2012 incident in which “Meet The Press” host David Gregory asked Biden whether he was “comfortable” with gay marriage, “A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer,” he said. “It’s the civil rights of our day. It’s the issue of our day.”

Biden publicly defended gay marriage only a week ago, at the 19th anniversary celebration of the Violence Against Women Act. In touting the recent reauthorization that extends protections to members of the LGBT community, Biden once again recalled the 2012 interview in which he beat the president to announcing support for gay marriage.

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While campaigning in Florida this week Vice President Joe Biden made the bold and uncompromising statement that discrimination against transgender people is one of “the civil rights issue of our time.” He isn’t wrong.

Leaving an Obama campaign office in Sarasota, Biden began talking to one woman whose daughter is currently Miss Trans New England. The woman asked Biden if he would help the millions of trans people who face discrimination.

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