Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay White House press secretary, marked National Coming Out Day with a personal story — sharing in a series of tweets and then remarks to reporters how 'coming out wasn't an easy thing to do.'
October 11, 2022, 8:00 PMKarine Jean-Pierre and Suzanne Malveaux at the Paramount White House Correspondents' Dinner after party at the French Ambassador's residence, in Washington, D.C., April 30, 2022.
"They saw that who I loved didn't change who I was as a person," she said at Tuesday's press briefing, echoing her tweets and noting that she wanted to mark her own identity "particularly as we continue to see a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the country.""The beauty of America is its freedoms and the promise that you can achieve your dreams, no matter your race, sex, country of origin, sexual orientation or gender identity," she said.
Jean-Pierre has since used her platform as President Joe Biden's spokeswoman to criticize policies that she says target LGBTQ people, such as a Florida ban on teachers discussing gender and sexuality in younger classrooms, which critics called the "Don't Say Gay" law. She added then that teachers who identify as LGBTQ are "being told to take down family photos of their husbands and wives—cherished family photos like the ones on my own desk."
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