Presidential Medal of Freedom

He would need to increase funding for PrEP, protect LGBTQ rights, and increase access to affordable health care.

Rush Limbaugh has spewed anti-LGBTQ rhetoric ever since he explained how to avoid HIV: “Do not ask another man to bend over and make love at the exit point.”

Openly gay in an era far different from today, Rustin took his place among leaders of the 1963 March on Washington.

“I don’t know where those guys are now, but they didn’t get the Medal of Freedom.”

“I forgot my ID,” the comedian tweeted Tuesday afternoon from Lafayette Square. “#NotJoking.”

The stars are among 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s top honor for Americans not serving in the military.

“It is fundamentally unjust to abort a most promising military career solely because of a truthful confession of a sexual preference different from that of the majority,” he wrote in 1993.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday posthumously honored LGBT and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, and Dr. Sally Ride, the first known LGBT astronaut, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will posthumously honor LGBT and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, and Dr. Sally Ride, the first known LGBT astronaut, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The White House announced Monday that President Barack Obama will bestow a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, to astronaut Dr. Sally Ride.