As President-elect Joe Biden's high-stakes game of cabinet musical chairs comes close to a conclusion, the number of seats available for an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person to join the highest ranks of Biden's administration is decreasing every day. Now, with the announcement that longtime aide Denis McDonough had been nominated to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs—a role seen by many movement leaders as a cabinet position of last resort for former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg—pressure from advocacy groups and key supporters is increasing for Biden to live up to his campaign promise to nominate an openly LGBTQ cabinet member. "I've been impressed with the folks he's chosen," Annise Parker, president of the LGBTQ Victory Fund and the former mayor of Houston, told The Daily Beast. "But our community will be extremely disappointed if the commitment to inclusion does not extend to us." Even before Biden's election, movement leaders were exceedingly hopeful that he would name an out cabinet official for Senate confirmation, a historic first. (Although President Donald Trump appointed longtime supporter Ric Grenell to serve in a temporary acting capacity as director of national intelligence, a cabinet-level position, he was never officially nominated to… Read full this story
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