Tmp Pri: Gay Republins on why they're backg the print

DONALD TMP WAV THE GAY PRI FLAG

He’s also flip-flopped on rights and protectns when to transgenr let’s not fet that Tmp’s nng mate Mike Pence has a rich history of LGBTQ tolerance, cludg opposg foreign ernments’ efforts to crimalize homosexualy, opposg repealg “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and leadg a csa agast LGBT rights as ernor of Indiana. In 2019, a spokperson for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Whe Hoe’s policy stated that “only the Amerin flag should be flown” on the flag pole outsi of embassy per the ble reviewed by Foreign Policy, the Pri flag and “other symbols nnotg support for LGBTQ rights” are now allowed to fly on the same pole as the Amerin flag “for the duratn of the 2021 Pri season, ” which clus the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOT) celebrated on May the statement is not specific as to which “other symbols” refers, the statement possibly pertas to the Trans Pri flag. "My Admistratn has lnched a global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy and ve all natns to jo this effort!, " the print poted to his admistratn's efforts to crimalize homosexualy worldwi that are beg led by the U.

"As your print, I will do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens om the vlence and opprsn of a hateful foreign iology, " Tmp said at the the two and a half years sce Tmp was gurated, he has taken steps to curtail LGBTQ rights, om nomatg judg aligned wh anti-gay hate groups to banng transgenr people om the Pri Month was tablished by Clton June 1999, though back then was lled Gay and Lbian Pri Month.

"Today, more openly gay and lbian dividuals serve senr posts throughout the Feral Government than durg any other Admistratn, " Clton's June 2000 proclamatn cled to regnize June as Pri Month, and was not until the electn of Barack Obama that the tradn started aga.

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"Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month, we celebrate the proud legacy LGBT dividuals have woven to the fabric of our Natn, we honor those who have fought to perfect our Unn, and we ntue our work to build a society where every child grows up knowg that their untry supports them, is proud of them, and has a place for them exactly as they are.

“Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought – and ntue to fight – for full equaly, ” Mr Bin said a statement on Tuday. Thirty years ago this month, at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy, a urageo group of cizens risted harassment and mistreatment, settg motn a cha of events that would bee known as the Stonewall Uprisg and the birth of the morn gay and lbian civil rights movement.

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Gays and lbians, their fai and iends, celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall every June Ameri as Gay and Lbian Pri Month; and, earlier this month, the Natnal Park Service add the Stonewall Inn, as well as the nearby park and neighborhood streets surroundg , to the Natnal Register of Historic Plac. Clton, Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and laws of the Uned Stat, do thereby proclaim June 1999 as Gay and Lbian Pri Month.

I enurage all Amerins to observe this month wh appropriate programs, ceremoni, and activi that celebrate our diversy, and to remember throughout the year the gay and lbian Amerins whose many and varied ntributns have enriched our natnal life. | (Photo: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)On October 30, at a rally Colorado, Donald Tmp proudly held up a rabow-lored, gay flag on which was wrten "LGBT's for Tmp. Intertgly, major gay webs like were not imprsed wh his gture, clarg, "It's an empty gture om the Republin nomee, who oppos marriage equaly and has a proudly homophobic nng mate.

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"The Bla also quoted Chris Barron, "a gay nservative activist and founr of LGBT for Tmp, " who lled him "the most pro-LGBT Pr ndidate ever nomated by eher party. "The Advote also poted that "the Log Cab Republins [the primary gay Republin group] refed to endorse Tmp" and an "earlier poll shows that almost three-quarters of LGBT voters will choose Clton the electn. Most notably, Tmp had Peter Thiel, the openly gay -founr of PayPal, speak at the Republin Natnal Conventn, and Thiel did so as an out and proud gay man.