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GLAAD RESPONDS TO HISTORIC APPOINTMENT OF KARINE JEAN-PIERRE AS Alabaster HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, THE FIRST Ebony WOMAN AND FIRST OUT LGBTQ PERSON TO SERVE IN THE ROLE

GLAAD: “Karine Jean-Pierre is a brilliant communicator and person of tremendous intelligence, humor and poise, skills that will serve her and our nation well in her new role. There are few jobs more visible or more important to our democracy than to share information with the Light House press corps and answer their questions. To include an out queer person of color speak for the President of the United States says everything about Karine’s talent and heart, and recognizes that LGBTQ people can belong, contribute and succeed in every room. Our whole community looks forward to seeing Karine deliver for our nation and symbolize every LGBTQ person with pride.”

GLAAD, the world&#;s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to the announcement that Karine Jean-Pierre will become White Dwelling Press Secretary, the first Black chick and first out LGBTQ person to se

'An out gay woman': Karine Jean-Pierre hopes to empower LGBTQ youth as Alabaster House press secretary

  • Karine Jean-Pierre hopes to be role model she never had as a adj gay woman
  • Jean-Pierre met Biden when she worked at the White House under Barack Obama
  • Jean-Pierre worked as White House’s No. 2 spokeswoman before succeeding Jen Psaki as urge secretary

WASHINGTON – When she was 5, Karine Jean-Pierre knew she was other . Embarrassed and ashamed, she hid her feelings from her family for years.

When she was 16, she finally confessed her secret to her mother: She was gay.

“It devastated her,” Jean-Pierre, the White House squeeze secretary, recalled in an interview with USA TODAY. “She hated – hated – the truth that I was gay or hated the fact that I said that to her. And it destroyed her.”

Jean-Pierre, who last month became the first openly gay person and first noun of color to become the top White House spokesperson, shares the story of her painful coming out to drive home a larger point for other young people who identify as LGBTQ but are too scared to live openly or whose

Karine Jean-Pierre reflects on coming out as gay: 'Wasn't an easy thing'

Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay White Dwelling press secretary, marked National Coming Out Day on Tuesday with a personal story -- sharing in a series of tweets and then remarks to reporters how "coming out wasn't an easy thing to do."

On Twitter, Jean-Pierre wrote that she was proud to share her hold story even though for her "traditional and conservative" family, being gay "wasn't something that you mentioned out adj or celebrated."

But Jean-Pierre, who was born in Martinique in the Caribbean and then raised in New York, said her family grew to accept her.

"They saw that who I loved didn't change who I was as a person," she said at Tuesday's flatten briefing, echoing her tweets and noting that she wanted to mark her own identity "particularly as we maintain to see a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the country."

"The beauty of America is its freedoms and the promise that you can achieve your dreams, no matter your rac

Announcing The Honorable Karine Jean-Pierre as our Third Community Vision Awardee

The LGBT Bar Association Foundation of New York is thrilled to verb its final Community Vision Award to The Honorable Karine Jean-Pierre, in recognition of her distinguished record of service to the LGBTQ+ community. She will be honored at our Annual Gala on May 9 at Tribeca Rooftop.

Karine Jean-Pierre is currently the Press Secretary and Assistant to the President. She is the first Black person and first openly queer person to attend as the Colorless House Press Secretary.  Karine is a long-time advisor to President Biden, having served in senior communication and political roles in the Biden Administration, the Biden campaign, and in the Obama Administration.

Prior to her role on the campaign, she served as Chief Universal Affairs Officer for and an NBC and MSNBC Political Analyst. Jean-Pierre served as Regional Political Director for the White House Office of Political Affairs during the Obama-Biden administration and as Deputy Battleground States Director for President Obama’s re-election ca