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On the recordDecember 13, 2022
Growing up, like many people in this room, I suspect, I watched as mostly--as straight politicians, many of them White, many of them men, used my basic human rights as a political football to further their careers.
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Mondaire Jones
Democratic · New York

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Jones criticizes how politicians exploit LGBTQ rights for personal gain.

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