PinkNews.co.uk – Yepoka Yeebo
An influential US campaigning group has spoken out against the silence Democratic presidential candidates have kept over the issues affecting gay people.
Matt Foreman, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, says that despite their laudable support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, no candidate has vocally completely supported the rights of LGBT Americans.
Exit poll data estimates that the LGBT community in the United States makes up approximately four percent of the voting population.
“No major Democratic candidate has made the kind of sweeping statement of inclusion as Bill Clinton in 1992, when he declared to a huge crowd of LGBT people in Los Angeles, ‘I have a vision for America and you are part of it,'” Foreman wrote on TheTaskForce.org.