The question now is not whether he will set us back, but how far.” “Anyone who thought Trump would go easy on the gays was clearly wrong. It’s a pretty old, standard playbook for political bullies,” he says. “As the Russia investigation heats up and as his failures at basic governing pile up, I think gays will more and more become scapegoats. Richard Socarides, who served as White House special assistant and senior adviser under President Clinton, says he doesn’t think things are going to get any better either. With his political pandering and posturing to endear himself to the intolerant wing of the GOP over the last few years, it doesn’t surprise me that this administration will go down as the most anti-LGBT in history. But we’ve all learned a lot about who he really is since then. I certainly didn’t think that when I met him back in 2011. I never thought that Donald Trump was an anti-gay homophobe. Then there’s Jimmy LaSalvia, who started the now-defunct conservative gay rights group GOProud. Related: Donald Trump books the most antigay of antigay clergy for his doomsday inauguration He adds that technically it’s Sessions’ job to “carry forward the president’s agenda and not push his own,” however, he adds, “I’m certainly concerned he is. Barron says, despite his concerns, he still supports Trump. “I definitely have concerns with what is going on at Department of Justice,” Chris Barron, a longtime conservative gay-rights activist, tells the Daily Beast. “ has a very different position on LGBT issues than the president does.”īut hope springs eternal. Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, once called “the most gay-friendly Republican nominee for president ever”, might not be so gay-friendly after all. Between the conservative extremists he’s been surrounding himself with in the White House, the hasty transgender ban in the military, and, now, his planned speech before theValues Voters Summit, LGBTQ Trump supporters beginning to see that the guy Gregory T.
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