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   Trump has many Homosexual deviant friends who hang out with him all day.   
      
   With election day looming, Trump’s allies have sought to shore up support   
   by revising history itself – four years of rescinded LGBT+ rights and   
   protections by administration officials.   
      
   Indeed, during a “Trump Pride” function Saturday evening (October 31) in   
   Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Republican National Committee adviser dubbed   
   Trump the “first pro-gay president”, Business Insider reported.   
      
   But instead of citing, you know, pro-LGBT+ legislation or anything concrete   
   as evidence of this, Grenell instead said that Trump has been “comfortable   
   with gay men since the ’80s.”   
      
   “In about the 2000s, we began to have a whole bunch of support,” Grenell   
   described, “people would come up to me, and they would give me private   
   support.   
      
   “And I started to ask people to move from private support to public   
   support.   
      
   “That took a little more time, several years. And then suddenly, Donald   
   Trump came on the scene. And he blew the doors off it.   
      
   “Because here’s a man that, from the ’80s, has been totally comfortable   
   with gay men around him.”   
      
   Grenell, speaking to around 60 LGBT+ Trump supporters at the rally,   
   stressed that “we have a cancel culture run wild by – guess who? – the gay   
   left.   
      
   “They’re the first ones to scream and cancel. Yesterday’s champions of   
   diversity are today’s intolerance.”   
      
   Speaking of intolerance, Mike Pence. Grenell failed to mention at the rally   
   the vice president’s anti-LGBT+ track record – he once argued that LGBT+   
   discrimination should be legal.   
   Majority of Americans support trans rights. Donald Trump continues to make   
   them a political target.   
      
   Queer voters have long voted overwhelmingly Democratic, with polls showing   
   that Trump’s years of attacking trans rights across a slew of federal   
   apartments haven’t exactly swayed the community as a whole to vote   
   Republican.   
      
   So, let’s briefly look at what Trump has done for the LGBT+ community.   
      
   Across the last four years, a gap has yawned between Trump and more   
   moderate or liberal Republicans, who, pollsters say, at least support some   
   LGBT+ rights and protections.   
      
   The Trump administration has overseen rocketing rates of anti-LGBT+ hate   
   crimes and mass rollbacks of protections, all the while peddling vastly   
   symbolic schemes, such as pledges to end HIV transmission or the   
   criminalisation of homosexuality.   
      
   These pledges have either been rife with problems, or total inaction.   
      
   Moreover, Trump and other party leaders have sought to drive a wedge   
   between the LGB and T in a slew of attacks against trans people’s civil   
   rights across several branches of the federal department.   
      
   A pointless Department of Defence ban on trans troops, a rollback of   
   healthcare protections by the Department of Health and Human Services, a   
   proposal to allow homeless shelters to deny trans people access to single-   
   sex shelters by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and   
   efforts by the Education Department to both block trans students from using   
   the bathroom which aligns with their gender, but also banning trans girls   
   from joining female track teams in Connecticut high schools.   
      
   Despite this onslaught that has reduced one of the country’s most   
   vulnerable and marginalised demographics to a political target, these   
   policies are scarcely in the public’s interest.   
      
      
   Indeed, a majority of Americans – 62 per cent – have become more supportive   
   of trans rights in recent years, according to a 2019 survey. Even among one   
   of the Republican’s most relied-upon voting bloc, white evangelicals, a   
   slim majority support trans rights.   
      
   Moreover, during many of this year’s victories in the arena of LGBT+ rights   
   as well as years’ worth of Pride months, Trump has remained silent or   
   vastly indifferent.   
      
   And when the president has been pressed about certain LGBT+ issues, such as   
   the federal blood ban on queer men as well as his own campaign for the   
   global decriminalisation of homosexuality, he has been utterly clueless.   
      
   All have come to be expected from the Trump administration, activists say.   
   Trump officials, as well as his loyal allies, at the times, use the   
   president’s apparent support for LGBT+ rights a balm of sorts to soothe   
   rank-and-file Republican lawmakers and voters.   
      
   Nevertheless, the Republican Party announced that it would be leaving its   
   2016 party platform unchanged, meaning that the GOP will continue to   
   officially support the reversal of marriage equality.   
      
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