In a profane, a gaffe-ridden speech at the International LGBQ+ Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. on Friday, the ailing former President Joe Biden once again declared his allegiance to the LGBT cause. Bien was receiving an award for pushing the LGBT agenda during his administration, and condemned President Trump’s rollback of his presidential activism.
“We just have to get up,” he told the crowd at the JW Marriot Hotel. “As long as we keep the faith…and remember who the hell we are. We’re the United States of Amerigotit, that’s who we are! We’re the U.S.!” Biden was given the Chris Abele Impact Award, which was named for LGBTQ+ Victory Action board member Chris Abele, one of the group’s big bag donors.
Despite his slurring, Biden’s assertion that LGBT activists are “who the hell America is” was a revealing one. The former president has long been a focus of criticism for wearing his Catholicism as a skinsuit while publicly attacking Christian moral precepts and allying with enemies of Christianity. In 2012, Biden became the highest-ranking official to publicly endorse redefining marriage, a moment he recounted in his speech.
Biden also recounted a meeting with LGBT leaders in which one asked him how he felt about them, and Biden pointed to the homosexual couple’s two boys. “I wish every American could have seen the love in the eyes of these two young boys for their dads,” he said. “If they did, they’d never have any doubt about what this is all about.”
“All of us are dismayed by the present state of the union,” Biden claimed. “This is not time to give up. Get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. And what’s the fight all about? It’s about protecting the Constitution. It’s about protecting the Constitution.”
Biden’s own view of the Constitution is fluid and murky at best. On January 17, 2025, he shocked legal scholars of all political persuasions by attempting to pronounce the failed Equal Rights Amendment part of the Constitution by presidential fiat. “In keeping with my oath and duty to Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe…the 28th Amendment is the law of the land,” he wrote. Not even his progressive allies took him seriously, and the 28th Amendment remains unratified.
“Donald Trump and the MAGA republicans are trying to distort and derail our fight for equality,” Biden continued. “They’re trying to turn it into something scary, something sinister. But folks, it’s really not about anything that’s all that complicated. At its core, it’s about making every American given the opportunity to be treated with basic decency, dignity, and respect they all deserve. That’s what every single American deserves, every American.”
In fact, the Biden administration backed sex change “treatments” for children—although it did flip-flop on the issue. After a growing body of evidence emphasized the irreversible damage of these procedures, the Biden White House claimed that it did not support sex changes for children, before promptly coming out and reversing this stance again and reiterating their support under massive pressure from LGBT lobby groups.
The International LGBQ+ Leaders Conference is the largest LGBT political gathering in the United States, and progressive publications celebrated the “history-making” presence of a former president, a first for the event. Over 700 LGBT elected officials, activists, and political leaders from around the world were present. The Advocate noted that the leaders focused on the upcoming midterms, where “key state legislative and congressional races could reshape LGBTQ+ political power.”
