SGN January 22, 2021

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Celebrating 47 Years! Issue 4 Volume 49

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BIDEN INAUGURATED AS 46TH U.S. PRESIDENT

President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Speech transcript January 20, 2021

“Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation,” President Joe Biden said.

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. – Photo by Andrew Harnik / AP

see BIDEN page 6

Biden appoints Transgender Assistant Health Secretary

Will rescind Trans military ban “on day one”

Biden’s LGBT agenda for Day 1

Dr. Rachel Levine – Photo by Daniel Shanken / Reuters

Photo by Matt Rourke / AP

gender federal officer. Before Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolfe appointed her to her current post in 2017, Joe Biden announced on January 18 that she was Pennsylvania’s physician general. he would appoint Pennsylvania Health Secre- She won confirmation by the Republicantary Rachel Levine to be his Assistant Secre- dominated Pennsylvania Senate and has emerged as the public face of the state’s tary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Once confirmed by the US Senate, response to the coronavirus pandemic. Levine will become the first openly Trans-

elect Joe Biden has, and no one has made so many promises. While Biden has a strong record on LGBT issues, some had As a journalist covering LGBT issues, suggested his promises were just campaign this will be the 8th presidential transition talk, as so many elected officials are apt to I’ve witnessed, from the Carter Admin- do. But he has quickly proven those people istration to the Biden Administration. Of wrong. He has already backed up his words those 8 president-elects, no one has reached with action. into the LGBT community as President-

by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer

see LEVINE page 14

by Mark Segal Philadelphia Gay News

see MARK SEGAL page 3


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