President Joe Biden courted LGBTQ+ voters with two New York events on Friday and warned about Donald Trump returning to the White House, as he looked to shake off a widely panned debate performance.Biden inaugurated a visitor center at the Stonewall National Monument with pop legend Elton John and later headlined a Pride Month fundraiser."You marked a turning point in civil rights in America," Biden told the crowd at the Stonewall monument, a symbol of LGBTQ+ pride for decades.
senator, he voted in 1996 for the Defense of Marriage Act, which forbade federal recognition of same-sex unions.Then, more than a decade later, Biden as vice president declared in 2012 on "Meet the Press" that he supported gay marriage, upstaging his boss, President Barack Obama, who had not yet stated his position on the issue. Obama said he supported gay marriage shortly thereafter.