+ Obama-Biden Administration
- 2009 - President Obama creates a program that provides critical health services to uninsured and underinsured people living with HIV/AIDS by signing into law the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
- 2009 - Obama signs into law the Matthew Sheppard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.
- March 2010 - President Obama signs into law the Affordable Care Act. The act prevents insurance companies from discriminating against anyone due to a pre-existing condition or based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.
- December 2010 - President Obama signed a bill into law ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
- January 2011 - President Obama has HHS announce hospital visitation rights for LGBTQ individuals.
- February 2011 - President Obama and Attorney General Holder announce the end of the legal defense to the Defense of Marriage Act in federal county.
- June 2011 - Education Secretary Duncan issues guidance to schools reminding them the rights students have to form Gay-Straight alliances.
- July 2011 - White House announces support for the Respect for Marriage Act that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
- February 2012 - Housing Secretary Castro issues rule prohibiting housing discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identity.
- May 2012 - Vice President Biden endorses same-sex marriage.
- May 2012 - President Obama endorses same-sex marriage.
- June 2013 - Housing Department releases report on housing discrimination against same-sex couples.
- July 2014 - President Obama prohibits employment discrimination by federal contractors against LQBTQ workers.
- December 2014 - Attorney General Holder Directs Department to Include Gender Identity Under Sex Discrimination Employment Claims.
- February 2015 - Department of State appoints first-ever Special Envoy for LGBTQ rights abroad.
- February 2015 - Housing Secretary creates new LGTBQ Youth Homelessness Prevention Initiative
- April 2015 - White House publishes response to a petition to ban conversion therapy.
- May 2015 - What You Should Know: The EEOC and the Enforcement Protections of LGBT Workers
- June 2015 - Obergefell v. Hodges; US Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriage is a legal right in the US.
- July 2015 - Obama Administration publishes National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
- May 2016 - Obama Education Department secures access for transgender students to school facilities according to their gender.
- May 2016 - Education Secretary issues guidance to schools that prohibits harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
- June 2016 - Transgender Service Members Can Now Serve Openly, Defense Secretary Carter Announces.
- September 2016 - HUD Secretary Julian Castro provides funding to homeless shelters to assign housing per an individual’s gender identity.
+ Trump-Pence Administration
- February 2017 - Secretary DeVos issues rule that allows schools to prohibit access for transgender students to school facilities according to their gender identity.
- October 2017 - Revised Treatment of Transgender Employment Discrimination Cases
- February 2018 - Undersecretary of Defense issues memo that forces HIV positive military members to leave service
- May 2018 - US Bureau of Prisons rolls back trangender inmate protections.
- February 2019 - US District Court in Virginia strikes down Trump Administration’s attempt to force HIV positive members of the military out of service
- May 2019 - Housing Secretary Ben Carson rescinds housing anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people.
- May 2019 - HHS proposes to allow insurance companies to discriminate based on gender identity.
- August 2019 - President Trump rescinds Obama’s anti-discriminatory employment regulations.
- October 2019 - Trump Administration argues civil rights law doesn’t cover LGBTQ workers
- November 2019 - Trump HHS Department issues rule to allow discrimination by adoption agencies in child adoption cases.
- May 2020 - Betsy DeVos Tells Connecticut: Ban Transgender Athletes, Or Say Goodbye To Your Federal Funding
- June 2020 - Trump Administration asks the Supreme Court to allow adoption agencies to turn away same-sex couples
- June 2020 - Transgender Health Protections Reversed By Trump Administration
+ Election 2020
- There are two major candidates for the Presidency:
Democratic Nominee, Former Vice President Joe Biden.
Joe Biden has a detailed plan on how to advance equality for the LGBTQ community read the entire plan here.
Republican Nominee, President Donald Trump See Trump-Pence Administration.
In May 2020 the Republican Party readopted the platform from 2016 including a ban on same-sex marriage and the promotion of conversion therapy.