Lady spoke at the Human Rights CampaignNational Dinner with it touted the Administration Work to protect lg dbq civil rights. Present also spoke about Matthew Shepard was beaten to death in 1998 because he was gay. This is nearly one in five minutes. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] hello. Hi, everybody. Hi. Thank you. Thank you. Please. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you so much. Please. Please. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you. [chanting] four more years. Four more years. [chanting] really, thank you. Please. Well, i concerning say we feel the love from you. Thank you. [cheers and applause] and thank you kelly for that introduction. You are a trailblazer and hrc is a lucky to have you. [cheers and applause] so how is everyone tonight . [cheers and applause] look at you. Such a beauty and boldness. Im so proud that this community has made d. C. Such a thriving,yo welcoming home to lgbtq plus people. [applause] its a remarkable departure from where we have been. When d. C. Was a place where outing was used as a political weapon. Tonight, we can celebrate without fear or shame. [applause] but despite the freedom and acceptance were fought for in places like d. C. , we know that into manyre other parts of our country these rights and freedoms are under attack. Across the country in places like texas and florida and alabama, lgbtq individuals dont have the freedoms to be honest with her family or embrace the gender identity at work. They dont have the freedom to walk down the halls of their school as their authentic self. They dont have the freedom to hold hands with her partner on the sidewalk. So while we celebrate this Beautiful Community tonight, lets also remember how lucky we are and harden our resolve to advocate for those who are not. [applause] we look for to a time whenes all people in all places can feel the freedom and the joy that we feel here tonight. But until then, we fight. We fight for the trains individuals who are being bullied and killed. [applause] we fight for the lgbtq kids who are forced into conversion therapy. We fight for the communities around the world where being gay is punishable by death. Joe and i stand firmly and proudly with you in these fights, and we will be with you every step of the way. [cheers and applause] theres nobody that i would rather have in my corner than my husband, joe biden. [cheers and applause] joe has always been a fierce advocate for this community, and im so proud of all the work that he has done for the lgbtq individuals here in the u. S. And around the globe. And and i am so honored to ine him tonight. So please welcome the president of the United States, joe biden. [cheers and applause] hello, hello, hello. [cheers and applause] my namee is joe biden. Im jules husband. Jules husband. Folks, let me begin with a sincere thank you. Please, have a seat. Si [shouting] well, thank you. Hope you understand that you are a beacon of light around the world. Not a joke. When i was in india or wherever i am, Lgbtq Community comes up to me and says can you help . Not a joke. Not a joke. Can you help . Giving people so much hope. Its all about hell. Think about it. How do you live without hope . This community and the United States of america, giving people hope. Folks, my first thing i want to say tonight, thank you. Thank you for changing lives around the world. You are doing it. You really are. [applause] and for some of you who are closer to my age it wasnt easy to do. No, im not joking. You lose your job, you get beat up. Whole different circumstance. Thank you for being here. Well, id say what, ive been here every time youve invited me. Careful, unlike poor relative. I show up when im invited. [laughing] look, kelly robinson, thank you. Thank you for the introduction and for your leadership. [applause] and congratulations to the knights awards, sean, unstoppable force. I tell you what, pathbreaking storyteller and matt bowler. Inspired, you do inspire, met. Grayson, daniel, courageous young activists who lift our hopes up for the future. Earlier this year they were kind of, there were kind enough to invite jill and because the trans youth promise. We could make it. Sounds like a. Hell of a lot of fun. But you know these young honorees joined us in june for the largest pride but the celebration ever, ever held at the white house, and theres going to be more at the white house. [applause] lgbtq youth are among the greatest people i know, and you four or no exception. Folks, this is the fourth time i joined the standard, come back to my days as a vice president. [applause] this Pivotal Moment of history j jill and ive come tonight to say thank youou to your courage, thank you to your hope, and thank you to your pride. Thank you for defending equal rights and dignity ofig all people, despite intense opposition and hateful rhetoric, even violates to try to keep you from moving. You inspire us. I do want you all, the lgbtq americans, to knoww the Bidenharris Administration has your back or i dont knows hollering down there but i cant hear you. [laughing] will look [shouting] i can hear. What is she saying . Well, thank you. Whatever you say i wont i cant hear you. [cheers and applause] [chanting] four more years. [shouting] i get it. Im not sure thats a good thing. No, im only joking. Look, ive been labeled the most proequality president in history. Im not sure thats true but i tell you what. Im grateful to the administration to lead an initiative with more with more out and that Staff Members at desperate to get with all of you, my administration is defending and advancing equal human rights of the Lgbtq Community all across the country at the meeting and around the world. I proud of our record. I signed this historic executive order extended civil rights protection housing, employment, health care, education and the justice system. As commanderinchief i edit the ban on Transgender Americans serving in the military. Y. [cheers and applause] as a pointed out, they can shoot esters anybody else i know. And on the anniversary of the repeal of dont ask, dont tell the department of defense announced a of the records of lgbtq servicemembers prepas n discharge for less than honorable service. [applause]la less than. Its going get the benefits they earn through their service we launched an ambitious plan to end hiv epidemic by 2030. [applause] proposed new National Prep program tomi prevent the spreadf hiv. And we finally did away with the outdated policy banning gay bisexuals from donating blood. [cheers and applause] leading with science, not stigma. We are leading fashion we make human rights a top party, increased assistance to break actives undergone, defending human rights in the country to best antigay laws the past antigay laws like uganda going after uganda making clear that they cannot get the same benefit as other countries. [applause] achieving progress. Look folks, heres the deal. Together, we are standing up for families. Some of you were with us on the south lawn last december when assigned the respect for marriage act. [applause] the law protecting the marriage of Gay International couples. Interracial. As i said more than a decade ago, marriage is a simple proposition. Who do you love . And will you be loyal to the person you love . [applause] i was raised that that was quite a simple proposition. I told the story before but until it again. I was raised by a man who was really decent honorable man. I remember hei was topping off. I wanted to be, i wanted to work in the projects as a lifeguard on the side of wilmington. He was taught me off on his way to work at the city hall to go get an application to be a lifeguard there. And as i got out of the car at the four corners at the center of town, two men turns out one used to work for the dupont country. This was back when i was a kid. Failing to over and kiss one another. Id never seen it before. I turned over to my debt and he each aan tribute to joey, its simple. Its simple, joey. They love one another. Its a simple proposition. [applause] i mean it. Edwinth help make the respect of marriage act reality, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And together we are standing up for children. As you know better than anyone, though young people all across america city in their bedrooms at night strolling through social media and staring at the ceiling wondering what the ever beloved . What happens if they tell the parents . Whats going to go on . Many of you been through it. Have you ever accepted by their families . Ever be free toll be e themselv . Or if they should even be there or here on earth. Nearly every day i get letters literally from children and parents terrified by what is happening all across america. 13yearold transgender child wrote to me and said i hate looking at the news. Not because im a teenager and it is going but because it is painful. Is, hear adults much older than the debate about my existence when you dont even know me. Or methods young people across america must be unequivocal. You are love, your heard, you are understood and you belong. [applause] i mean it. And we see you who you are. Th made in the image of god, deserving dignity, respect and support. Thats my one might ministation is combating the dangers cool practice of conversion therapy thats been so outspoken. Thats why the launch of nationwide isis hotline where lgbtq user can isolate and overwhelm can get help. They just have to call 988 and talk to a counselor. Lk 988 to talk to a counselor. [applause] and this year we are committing to even more resources. New federal action to address lg peak eq youth homelessness. You steps to protect kids in foster care. All that matters, but for all the progress weve made, we know the barriers, the bias got the bigotry still exists. Perhaps because of the progress weve made people want to push us back and pull us back. Over 600, 600, hateful laws laws introduced across the country, more than 70 of them becoming law just this last year, denying the existence of transgender people, silencing teachers, banning books,en threatening pas with prison for giving their children healthcare. Families across the country now face excruciating decisions to move to a different state to protect their child from dangerous antilgbtq laws. I received a letter from one mom who wrote me quote, i despair for families like mine who already become refugees inside our nation. Refugees inside our nation . Thats how she feels, like a refugee inside our nation. This is the United States of america. And the United States congress extreme maga republicans are trying to undo virtually every bit the progress we have made. Theyre trying to wipe out federal funding to in the hiv epidemic, strip funding from Kennedy Centers fore seniors, reinstate the ban on transgender troops, manned the department of justice from enforcing civil rights laws, ban pride flag from flying on public lands. Who the [laughing] [cheers and applause] not very president ial. When they threaten the legal recognition of samesex marriage. And these are just cruel attacks on the transix commutes, attas on the foundation of our democracy. You know, they take a matter of fundamental values and principles. Like o o the right to free expression. The right to make their own health care decisions, the right to raise our own children. Im never going to stand by and large families to arise, doctors and nurses criminalize, or any child targeted for who they are. It is who they are. [applause] jill and i, and our entire mission while we stand with you against hate. Together we will make even more progress. You heard me say before and i apologize, havent repeated. Married inon can bees the morning and throw it out of the restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still fundamentally wrong in this country. [applause] that still exists. Thats why we must pass the equality act and pass it now. [cheers and applause] thats why we must do this. At a a time when studies show violence against lgbtq americans is on the rise, we have to do more to keep people in the community safe. 25 years ago this week, Matthew Shepard was brutally taken from us. His parents had turned his murder into a movement. As we [applause] we also remember the lgbtq victims and allies killed this year while killed while dancing and expressing joy. Or an accountant is simply hung of pride flag outside her home. Well think about that. She was killed. Colin smith, stabbed while defending a friend being harassed here and dozens of Transgender Americans especially transgender women of color killed every year. [applause] the department of Homeland Security of the department of justice and health and Human Services has launched a Safety Partnership to better protect festivals and marches and Community Centers and businesses, t to better protect Healthcare Provider serving the community, and hope folks report hate crimes. Nearly a a year afteraf the hc shooting at club q in Colorado Springs we have to fully implement the most significant density loss in nearly 30 years, and then asked against the assault weapons ban, which diane and i passed. No excuse. [cheers and applause] who in gods name each weapon with 100 rounds in the chamber . The weapon is only meant for one thing, to kill people. We get it before. We can do it again as long as im at office on the corner stop until we get it done again. Look folks, let me close with this. A week ago we saw hate manifest in another way in the worst massacre of jewish peoplee sine the holocaust. More than 1300 innocent lives lost in israel, including at least 27 americans. Children and grandparents alike kidnap and held hostage by hamas. As you manage crisis in gaza, innocent palestinian families and the vast majority have nothing to do with hamas. [applause] they are being used as human shields. Yesterday i spoke over an hour with the family members of those americans who are still zunaccounted for on a resume call. Theyve endured an agony of not knowing what has happened. Not the same thing but i can tell you what its like. Its one thing to lose some when you know youre going to loosen to be there and hold her hands like i got to do with my son. Its every other thing to get a phonee call like i got years ao saying theres been an accident. My wife and daughter are dead. The uncertainty in those two or three hours to get back to find out. Its the worst feeling in the world. Its gutwrenching. And yet at another reminder that hate never goes away. It only hides it hides under the rocks. I thought being so deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement when i disableas to convince all people Strom Thurman to vote for the Voting Rights act in his last year, changed his mind, i thought well, you can defeat hate. [applause] but guess what happened . Hate just hides under the rocks until theres a little oxygen blown under, which happened, what happened in charlottesville. Just a little bit. It comes rolling out again. Folks, we have to reject hate in every form. [applause] because history has taught us again and again, antisemitism, islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, they are all connected. Sw hate toward one group left unanswered opens the door for more hate for more groups of more often readily. [applause] but heres what we simply show. The editor to make his love. The answer to twisted dehumanizing ideologist of dirt, standing up for every two minutes. Thats why the laws that actually respect equals better every single american the betteo you are who you love or where you come from. This shouldnt be about conservative, liberal, but are blue. If you doubt realizing the promise of the declaration back. Sounds corny but a promise rooted in the sacred and the secular. Forf all people are created equal. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [cheers and applause] folks, it may sound corny but weve never fully lived up to the promise but weve never walked away from it like many want us to do. And were not going to walk away from it on my watch, i promise you. At allll of your tonight and all the advocates and i was across the country, i see the light thats going to triumph over the darkestt or i see the hope thats going to conquer fear. I see the love thats going to overcome hate in all its forms. A great nation because were basically a good people. We just have to remember who we are and we are not the victim, and although we are good folks weve got to stand up and hollered. We are to stand up and hollered. You cannot be silent. Silence is complicity. [cheers and applause] silence is complicity. Folks, we are the United States of america, and there is nothing the on our capacity when we do together. Nothing, nothing, nothing. So lets stand together and get everyone else on theyo deal. God bless you all and they got protect our troops. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] today former government officials and others discussed the u. S. Israel alliance during an event hosted by the heritage foundation. You can watch that lie that when people eastern on cspan2, cspan or free mobile video app, or online at cspan. Org. Tonight want to cspan series in partnership with the library of congress, books that shaped america. We feature mark twain said novel adventures of Huckleberry Finn written in 1884. The novel is controversial from the beginning because of the subject matter and use of dialect. The book is sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is had a profound impact on American Literature. The library of cogs quotes parnas inuit as saying all modern American Literature comes from one book by mark twain called Huckleberry Finn. And to leave the english professor at Butler University and indianapolis has taught classes on how come briefing for many years. He will join us to discuss the book. Watch books that shaped america featuring adventures of Huckleberry Finn tonight live at nine p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan or free mobile video app, and online at cspan. Org. Also be sure to scan the qr code to listen to her companion podcast we can learn more about the authors of the books featured