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Biden signs marriage equality act to tune of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law on Tuesday at a jubilant celebration that featured U.S. singer Cyndi Lauper performing “True Colors” in front of thousands of supporters on the White House lawn.
The new law provides federal recognition to same-sex marriages, a measure born out of concern that the Supreme Court could reverse its legal support of such relationships.
Cheers erupted from the crowd as Biden signed the bill.
“Marriage is a simple proposition. Who do you love? And will you be loyal to that person you love? It’s not more complicated than that. The law recognizes that everyone should have the right to answer those questions for themselves,” Biden said. “Today’s a good day.”
The event featured performances by pop icons Lauper and British singer Sam Smith.
[1/8] U.S. President Joe Biden celebrates with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Jerry Nadler, first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris after signing the “Respect for Marriage Act,” a landmark bill protecting same-sex marriage, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
“Well, this time, love wins,” Lauper said before starting to sing.
Made famous by her 1983 song “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Lauper, 69, said the act offered peace of mind to families like hers and Americans nationwide.
“We can rest easy tonight because our families are validated and because now we’re allowed to love who we love, which sounds odd to say, but Americans can now love who we love,” Lauper, an activist on LGBT issues who has been married to actor David Thornton since 1991, told reporters at a briefing prior to the performance.
Addressing the crowd before the signing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the bill promoted equality.
“Everyone deserves to bask in the magical blessing of building a union with the person you love,” she said.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose daughter and her wife are expecting a child, called it “a day of jubilation.”
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At Tour de France Femmes, It’s a Steep Climb to Equality
MEAUX, France — After winning Stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes, the Dutch cyclist Marianne Vos pulled on the Tour leader’s yellow jersey for the first time and explained that no, actually, this special moment was not something that had always been a dream for her.
As a child, Vos had attended the Tour de France every summer and camped with her family along the course for the entire three weeks, shouting encouragement as the riders sped across flat roads, pedaled up curvy mountain passes and flew down steep slopes. That was where Vos, an Olympic gold medalist and winner of numerous world championships, fell in love with cycling. But the race was only for men, so it was never her goal to win it.
Over time, though, as she became one of the most accomplished women’s cyclists in history, it dawned on her: Why should men get all the media attention, fan adulation and money that only the Tour de France can bring?
This realization was partly how the Tour de France Femmes was revived this week after a 33-year absence. Vos was a major force in lobbying to bring back the women’s race, which was held once in 1955, then again from 1984 to 1989, before it disappeared again for a generation.
Not until Sunday, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and under a searing summer sun, did the women — 144 racers from 24 teams — get back on their bikes for a race associated with the Tour, the most prestigious race in cycling.
“Of course, you can say maybe it has taken too long, but yeah, but I’m just happy it’s here,” said Vos, who kept the yellow jersey on Tuesday after finishing second in Stage 3. It was her second runner-up finish in three days. “I think the time is right.”
For some cyclists and women’s rights advocates like Vos, the time has been right for at least a decade.
In 2013, Vos and three other cyclists — the American Kathryn Bertine, a women’s cycling advocate from Bronxville, N.Y.; the British former time-trial champion Emma Pooley; and the four-time Ironman champion Chrissie Wellington — were so sure it was the right time for a women’s Tour that they formed a group called Le Tour Entier (French for The Whole Tour) to rally public support for holding one.
Their efforts to convince the Amaury Sport Organisation, or A.S.O. — the company that runs the Tour — worked, but only to a point.
A.S.O. agreed to host a race in 2014 that was clearly not The Whole Tour, considering that the first edition of the race was about 2 percent as long as the men’s race. The event, called La Course by Le Tour de France, was a one-day circuit race held on the final day of the men’s Tour, in Paris. Vos won that day, and then won again in 2019.
A.S.O. was supposed to add three to five race days to that one-day race until the women’s race reached parity with the 21-day men’s race, Bertine said in a telephone interview on Monday, but that never happened. La Course was replaced altogether this year by the eight-day Tour de France Femmes — longer than the La Course, but not nearly as long as the men’s Tour.
“I do believe that the social pressure put on A.S.O. was the reason they finally, after eight years, decided to finally augment the women’s race,” said Bertine, who made a documentary called “Half the Road” that discussed the gender inequities in cycling. “My biggest fear is that this race will stay eight days long for another eight years because it’s frightening to look at the A.S.O.’s track record on this. They are dinosaurs who resisted this for a long, long time.”
Bertine lamented that women’s cycling went backward not long after the women’s Tour was held in 1984.
Six women’s teams raced that Tour at the same time as the men, with the women starting 35 to 45 miles out front each day. They rode 18 of the 21 stages, including climbing the intimidating Alpe d’Huez, and all but one of the women finished. Marianne Martin, of Boulder, Colo., became the first American — female or male — to win the Tour de France.
On Sunday in Paris, wearing a sleeveless yellow dress the same color as the Tour leader’s jersey, Martin, 64, was at the start of the Tour de France Femmes to cheer the women’s racers. She recalled riding past thousands of fans at the 1984 Tour, just hours before the men’s race came into the city, and feeling the thrill the men had experienced annually since the race began in 1903.
People shouting. Flags waving. Cowbells ringing. She had never seen anything like it. On Sunday, the atmosphere felt the same — and that was exhilarating, she said.
One night at that 1984 Tour, she joined a men’s team for dinner and noticed that their hotel was much nicer and their food was much better than that of the women. Yet she was unfazed.
“I didn’t care because we were at the Tour de France and I got a massage every day and we were fed and got to race our bikes every day in France,” Martin said. “I didn’t have expectations for more.”
She recalled winning about $1,000 and a trophy. The men’s winner, France’s Laurent Fignon, won more than $100,000. This year, there is also a yawning disparity between men’s and women’s prize money.
The women will get about $250,000, with the overall race winner receiving about $50,000. On the men’s side, the purse was more than $2 million, with Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard winning more than $500,000 for finishing first.
There’s still a long way to go for women to achieve parity in the sport. The international cycling federation, for example, caps how far they can ride in one day, a distance that is much shorter than the men’s maximum. (The women’s Olympic road course, in another example, is 60 miles shorter than the men’s.) The men’s minimum salary on the WorldTour is higher than the women’s, and the budgets for women’s teams are often a pittance compared to the men’s.
Linda Jackson, owner of EF Education-TIBCO-SVB women’s cycling team, said the road to the top of the sport — and to equality — will take both time and a calculated plan for success, especially when building something sustainable.
Jackson, a former investment banker, started her team in 2004, with the goal to someday race in Europe. Her squad is competing on the women’s WorldTour and also in the Tour de France Femmes this year.
There are many signs that the sport is on the upswing for women, she said, including more races, more TV coverage and higher minimum salaries that help riders focus solely on their training (which means a higher level of competition).
It also was crucial that Zwift, a fitness technology company, signed a four-year contract as the marquee sponsor of the Tour de France Femmes. In 2020, the company paired with A.S.O. to host a virtual Tour de France during the pandemic, and viewership numbers for the women’s events were so high that Zwift eventually made a commitment to help A.S.O. bring the women’s Tour back to life.
“A.S.O., in particular, doesn’t do this because, ‘Equality for women, wow, wouldn’t it be good to have?’” Jackson said. “They are doing it because they see the growing momentum in the sport.”
She added: “They aren’t going to have a women’s Tour in 20 years if they lose money for three to four years. A.S.O. has to break even at least.”
Media exposure is the most important component for the race’s success, Jackson said, and with 2 1/2 hours of live television coverage a day at this women’s Tour, “this one race has the potential to change our sport forever.” Kathrin Hammes, who rides for Jackson’s team, said: “People pay attention when they hear about the Tour de France. It’s the one race that everybody knows.”
Many of the women racing the Tour said an eight-day event was a good start, but that they already are hoping for more. The Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten, a race favorite, said she is ready for a three-week challenge, just like the test the men endure. She added that she would be “super excited” for an epic climb like the one up Alpe d’Huez because that would be another milestone for women’s cycling.
For now, the racers have several days left before reaching the final stages, which will be held in the Vosges Mountains and will end with a painful climb up La Super Planche des Belles Filles, a summit that is at times included in the men’s Tour.
And Vos — who has done nearly everything there is to do in cycling — has a few days left before she can look back and appreciate her roles as a racer and an advocate who helped make the entire event happen.
Maybe she will remember young girls cheering her name as they lined up along the course and watched the peloton take off on Stage 2. Or the group of men from a Brie-making society wearing creamy yellow cloaks and matching flat-topped hats who asked her for a selfie.
But early in the race, Vos said she could not think of anything but the many miles ahead.
“I’m so grateful for everybody who put their energy into making this race happen,” she said. “But I’m also focused on racing now. I will let it sink in and think about what happened maybe in the end, after the season, or in a couple of years even.”
Riding away, she said, “All I know now is that the Tour de France is bigger than sports.”
U.S. House passes bill protecting marriage equality
WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill protecting gay marriage rights, after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade imperiled similar precedents that protected rights to same-sex relations and contraception.
The bill, which passed the Democratic-controlled chamber by a vote of 267-157 with support from 47 Republicans, establishes federal protections for gay marriage and prohibits anyone from denying the validity of a marriage based on the race or sex of the couple.
It will now go to the Senate for a vote, where it faces unclear odds in the evenly divided chamber. House Republicans were told to vote with their conscience by party leadership, who did not whip against the bill.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler sponsored the bill after the federal right to an abortion was overturned when the Supreme Court struck down its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should also reconsider its past rulings that guaranteed access to contraception and the 2015 right to gay marriage, because they relied on the same legal arguments as Roe.
Pride flags are used to celebrate Pride Month at the Stonewall National Monument at Christopher Park adjacent to The Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, New York, U.S., June 23, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Some congressional Republicans have echoed Thomas’ arguments. Republican Senator Ted Cruz said on Saturday that the high court was “clearly wrong” in establishing a federal right to gay marriage.
Democrats have argued that Congress must enshrine the right to gay marriage into federal law in case the court revisits its past rulings.
“The rights and freedoms that we have come to cherish will vanish into a cloud of radical ideology and dubious legal reasoning,” Nadler said in a statement on Monday.
Under the House bill, states could still restrict gay marriage if the Supreme Court overturns its prior ruling. But such states would be required to recognize marriages that occurred in states where they remain legal.
The House will vote Thursday on a bill to guarantee nationwide access to contraception, another right that Thomas suggested the court revisit.
Democrats are hoping the bills will draw a contrast to Republicans ahead of Nov. 8 midterm elections, in which soaring inflation challenges Democrats’ majority hold on the House and the Senate.
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These are the 47 House Republicans who voted for a bill protecting marriage equality
More than three dozen House Republicans voted for a bill on Tuesday to protect marriage equality, less than one month after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion calling for the reversal of landmark cases safeguarding LGBTQ rights.
The House approved the measure, titled the Respect for Marriage Act, in a 267-157 vote. Seven Republicans did not vote.
A total of 47 Republicans joined all Democrats in supporting the measure: Reps. Kelly Armstrong (N.D.), Don Bacon (Neb.), Cliff Bentz (Ore.), Ken Calvert (Calif.), Kat Cammack (Fla.), Mike Carey (Ohio), Liz Cheney (Wyo.), John Curtis (Utah), Rodney Davis (Ill.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Tom Emmer (Minn.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Andrew Garbarino (N.Y.), Mike Garcia (Calif.), Carlos Gimenez (Fla.), Tony Gonzales (Texas), Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio), Ashley Hinson (Iowa), Darrell Issa (Calif.), Chris Jacobs (N.Y.), David Joyce (Ohio), John Katko (N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), Nancy Mace (S.C.), Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.), Brian Mast (Fla.), Peter Meijer (Mich.), Dan Meuser (Pa.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa), Blake Moore (Utah), Dan Newhouse (Wash.), Jay Obernolte (Calif.), Burgess Owens (Utah), Scott Perry (Pa.), Tom Rice (S.C.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Mike Simpson (Idaho), Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), Bryan Steil (Wis.), Chris Stewart (Utah), Mike Turner (Ohio), Fred Upton (Mich.), David Valadao (Calif.), Jefferson Van Drew (N.J.), Ann Wagner (Mo.), Michael Waltz (Fla.) and Lee Zeldin (N.Y.).
Gonzalez, Kinzinger, Katko, Upton and Jacobs are not seeking reelection this year, and Davis and Rice lost their primaries for reelection. Zeldin is currently running to governor in New York.
Among the more notable “yes” votes were Stefanik, who is the House GOP conference chair, and Emmer, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. The Hill reached out to their offices for comment.
The bill seeks to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a measure that Congress passed in a bipartisan fashion and former President Clinton signed into law in 1996 that acknowledged marriage as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”
Additionally, the measure defined spouse as “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”
The legislation passed on Tuesday, which faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, would roll back the 1996 law and require that couples be considered married if they tied the knot in a state where their marriage was lawful.
The House Judiciary Committee said that provision would ensure that same-sex and interracial couples receive equal treatment to other married individuals on the federal level.
The measure also authorizes the attorney general to initiate civil action against individuals who breach the legislation, and gives people the authority to launch civil action if their rights as laid out in the bill are violated.
Its passage in the House comes less than one month after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion to the decision that called for the reversal of two landmark decisions protecting LGBTQ rights.
The conservative justice said the bench should reconsider all substantive due process precedents established by the court, naming Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 ruling that barred states from outlawing consensual gay sex, and Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling protected same-sex marriage as a constitutional right.
Mace wrote in a statement that she voted for the bill because she believes two individuals, regardless of race or gender or orientation, should be allowed to marry if they want to.
“I always have and always will support the right of any American to marry. This vote is no different. I believe any two people, regardless of the color of their skin or gender or orientation or otherwise, should be free to enter into marriage together,” she said.
“If gay couples want to be as happily or miserably married as straight couples, more power to them,” she added.
Bacon said that while he believes “in the traditional definition of marriage,” he does not believe “the government should dictate who can marry each other based on gender, race, or ethnicity.” He noted that he made his decision to vote yes after talking to faith and community leaders.
“Churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious establishments have the right to decide within their walls and congregations who they will perform marriages for, but the federal government does not. This has been the law for seven years and many thousands have been married with this as law of the land,” he said in a statement.
“Americans should have the right to their private lives. The Supreme Court showed that all viewpoints can be respected,” he added.
In a video posted on Twitter following Tuesday’s vote, Meijer said he supported the measure because he viewed the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe as the bench telling Congress to do its job and not rely on the court to legislate.
“What happened with the Dobbs concurrence by Justice Thomas was this question of the constitutional basis for those Supreme Court decisions,” he said, pointing to Obergefell and Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 case that protects interracial marriage.
“And what this court has said, they’ve said Congress, do your job, don’t rely on the courts to do the legislating, take up that legislation yourself. And that’s frankly what this bill was,” he added.
He continued, saying that the bill is an effort to ensure there isn’t “absolute chaos” if Obergefell or Loving were overturned.
The Michigan Republican noted, however, that he does not believe there is a current threat to or a “political appetite to threaten” Obergefell or Loving.
“I voted in favor of this thing tonight. I think it’s the right choice from a limited government standpoint, from a liberty standpoint and frankly just from avoiding any circumstance where that type of chaos could come down the line,” he added.
— Updated at 8:26 p.m.
Bolsonaro blocks free tampons and pads for disadvantaged women in Brazil | Women’s rights and gender equality
President Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to block a plan to distribute free sanitary pads and tampons to disadvantaged girls and women has been met with outrage in Brazil, where period poverty is estimated to keep one in four girls out of school.
Bolsonaro vetoed part of a bill that would have given sanitary products at no charge to groups including homeless people, prisoners and teenage girls at state schools. It was expected to benefit 5.6 million women and was part of a bigger package of laws to promote menstrual health, which has been approved by legislators.
Tabata Amaral, of the Brazilian Socialist party (PSB) and one of 34 cross-party federal deputies who co-authored the bill, said the president had shown his “contempt for the dignity of vulnerable women” by vetoing the plan last week.
“Bolsonaro says this project is ‘against the public interest’ – I say that what is against the public interest is that girls lose around six weeks of school a year because they are menstruating,” Amaral told the Guardian.
She was among politicians and other groups outraged by justifications given for the veto – including that giving free sanitary products to poor girls and women would “favour a certain group”. Many expressed their anger using the hashtag #LivreParaMenstruar (free to menstruate).
Jacqueline Moraes, vice-governor of the south-eastern state of Espírito Santo, tweeted: “Is it ‘a privilege’ for a poor woman to have the right to a tampon? No! It’s social policy, public health!”
“The veto is absurd and inhumane,” said Rozana Barroso, president of the Brazilian Union of Secondary Students (UBES). “Many students are prevented from studying because they stop attending school due to not having a sanitary pad.
“Have you ever imagined using paper, newspaper or breadcrumbs to contain menstruation? This is a harsh reality, especially among young people. In the midst of the pandemic and worsening social inequality this situation has got even worse.”
In May, a report by the UN children’s fund, Unicef, and population fund, UNFPA, found that 713,000 girls in Brazil live without access to a bathroom; about 4 million girls don’t have adequate hygiene facilities at school, such as sanitary pads and soap, and at least 200,000 girls lack even the minimum hygiene facilities at school, such as bathrooms.
Amaral disputed the government’s claim that the source of the 84m reais (£11m) a year to cover the plan was unclear, saying it had been specified it would be funded by the health ministry and national penitentiary fund. She is leading the campaign to overturn the veto.
She noted that the health ministry has to pay for costly treatments and surgeries resulting from complications after women use items such as towels and old clothes during their period. Half of Brazilian women reported resorting to such alternatives, she said.
Barroso is mobilising students to collect sanitary products to give out at schools. “This is not the country we want and that is why through the UBES, which represents more than 40 million students, we helped build this bill and we will fight this veto.”
Elliot Page opens up about his emotional journey and the fight for LGBTQ equality in new interview
For actor Elliot Page, the journey to living authentically has been, and continues to be, an emotional one. In his first interview since coming out as transgender in December, Page spoke with Time Magazine about the “deep gratitude” he felt “to have made it to this point in my life,” and about his fight to ensure that all transgender individuals have the support they need.
“I want to live and be who I am,” Page, who is well-known for his role in Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy,” told Time. “…It’s a complicated journey, and an ongoing process.”
Page is the first transgender man to be on the cover of Time Magazine, according to Reuters.
Despite coming out just three months ago, Page, 34, said in the interview that he has felt like and has wanted to identify as a boy since he was a child. But he said that being a professional actor, a career he started at age 10, required him “to look a certain way.”
When he decided to tell the world that his name is Elliot, he said he anticipated a lot of support and love — but also a “massive amount of hatred and transphobia.”
“That’s essentially what happened,” Page told the magazine. But despite the criticism he’s faced, he told the magazine that he believes he has a privilege and responsibility to be honest and live authentically.
“Extremely influential people are spreading these myths and damaging rhetoric — every day you’re seeing our existence debated,” Page said. “Transgender people are so very real.”
Much of this debate has been political. So far in 2021, there have been more than 100 bills proposed that would negatively impact the LGBTQ community, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. More than 60 of those bills specifically target transgender youth, the ACLU said.
Since he came out, Page has primarily used his social media pages to raise awareness about crimes and legislative actions that are hurting the LGBTQ community. One of the issues he’s focused on is access to non-discriminatory health care for transgender individuals.
One of the most comprehensive surveys of transgender individuals in the U.S., released in 2016, found that one in three transgender individuals who saw a doctor within the year had reported at least one negative experience related to being transgender, including harassment and refusal of treatment. Those who are transgender were also more likely than the general population to be uninsured.
“My privilege has allowed me to have resources to get through and to be where I am today,” Page told Time, “and of course I want to use that privilege and platform to help in the ways I can.”
Even when tweeting about his interview in Time, Elliot used his platform to raise awareness about the discrimination transgender individuals face. “With deep respect for those who came before me, gratitude for those who have supported me & great concern for the generation of trans youth we must all protect, please join me and decry anti-trans legislation, hate & discrimination in all its forms,” he tweeted.
“We know who we are,” Page told Time, in reference to the debate about rights transgender individuals. “People cling to these firm ideas [about gender] because it makes people feel safe. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.”
Here are the three House Republicans who voted for the Equality Act
Faith objections to the ‘Equality Act’: Is it the worst case scenario for religious freedom?
Religious leaders are worried about the Equality Act, which is expected to pass in the House, because it makes no provision for religious objections and some warn that it could outlaw standing up for traditional views on marriage. Could this violate the core principle of freedom of religion? Here to debate, former Obama faith adviser Christopher Hale, and Shane Idleman, lead pastor of Westside Christian Fellowship in California.
Three House Republicans broke with their colleagues on Thursday and supported the Equality Act, which conservatives have described as an assault on religious liberty.
Reps. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., John Katko, R-N.Y., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., all joined the more than 200 Democrats opposing the legislation. In total, the bill passed with a 224-206 vote.
The controversial legislation is expected to have a tough time making its way through the Senate, although the White House has pledged to sign it if able.
HOUSE PASSES EQUALITY ACT
“Today, I once again supported passage of the Equality Act, a bill that creates a uniform federal standard for preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” Katko said, according to The Hill.
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The bill seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and the Jury Selection and Services Act.
“We stand firmly against discrimination in any form. Throughout my tenure in Congress, we have fought to ensure all are treated fairly before the law, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation,” Katko said.