LGBTQ Leaders Watch Biden Cabinet Selections With Increasing Anxiety

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…