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White House photog Pete Souza captured President Obama shooting a rainbow from his hand yesterday as the President left Jamaica.
The image is particularly significant in that the President “youth leaders” while in Jamaica and acknowledged LGBT advocates.
From the HRC blog:
While in Jamaica, President Obama held a town hall where he invited and recognized LGBT advocates from the country. Following the meeting, US National Security Advisor Susan Rice tweeted, “Anti-LGBT discrimination and violence is unacceptable everywhere. This is US policy globally, as we discussed here in Jamaica today.”
President Obama was in Jamaica to meet with Caribbean government leaders. As part of the trip, the President participated in a town hall meeting with “young leaders.” During his opening remarks, he acknowledged Angeline Jackson, the executive director of Quality of Citizenship Jamaica, the only organization in Jamaica dedicated to the needs of lesbian and bisexual women, for her bravery and advocacy. Dane Lewis, the executive director of J-FLAG, a Jamaican LGBT organization, attended the town hall.
“To hear Angeline being acknowledged and celebrated by the President was awesome to behold. It showed inclusion,” Lewis said in response to the meeting. “The US Human Rights agenda was made even clearer by that bold move to single out persons who had come through ‘hard times’ and persevered in-spite of their social background, gender, race or sexual orientation.”