(Community Matters)
For Immediate Release June 29, 2011
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT RECEPTION OBSERVING LGBT PRIDE MONTH
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! (Applause.) Welcome to the White House. (Applause.)
Nothing ruins a good party like a long speech from a politician. (Laughter.) So I’m going to make a short set of remarks here. I appreciate all of you being here. I have learned a lesson: Don’t follow Potomac Fever — (laughter) — because they sounded pretty good.
We’ve got community leaders here. We’ve got grassroots organizers. We’ve got some incredible young people who are just doing great work all across the country -– folks who are standing up against discrimination, and for the rights of parents and children and partners and students —
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