Tag: Donald Trump

The collection includes t-shirts, tank tops, stickers and buttons.The merchandise is adorned with the transgender pride flag or the colors of the rainbow flag. One design substitutes the "E" in JOE, BIDEN or PRIDE for rainbow or transgender pride stripes.Slogans that appear on the merchandise include "LOVE EACH OTHER" in rainbow colors.One button includes a black and white cutout of Biden colorized in blue contrasted with a rainbow-colored background.T-shirts and tank tops retail for $27, while a set of four...

In Trump they trust. More than 250 religious right leaders are calling on their followers to make tomorrow, June 2, a “Special Day of Prayer” dedicated to asking God to “protect, strengthen, embolden and direct” the president. The crusade is being led by Franklin Graham, the multi-millionaire preacher and politico who used to wish aloud that the U.S. were more like Putin’s Russia. Apparently in Trump, his wish has been fulfilled. “President Trump’s enemies continue to try everything to destroy him, his...

Yesterday, Trump briefly acknowledged Pride month for the first time in his three years as President, making him the first Republican president ever to do so. He did so during the Friday news dump, where embarrassing announcements go to die silently. His tweet, which has been summarized as “Be grateful we don’t execute you,” read: “As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity...

Rodrigo Duterte, the conservative president of the Philippines, said that he used to be gay but that he has since been “cured.” During a speech yesterday, Duterte “confessed” that he was gay before he met his ex-wife, Elizabeth Zimmerman, local publication Rappler reports. He then attacked Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, one of his main critics, accusing the senator of being gay. Duterte said that Trillanes’s “movements” showed that he was gay. “You ask any gay person who sees Trillanes move, they’ll say...

The State Department announced that it will be launching a new advisory panel that will stress human rights in the context of “natural law.” In contemporary politics, “natural law” is associated with conservative Christianity, especially opposition to reproductive and LGBTQ rights. Anti-LGBTQ activists use the phrase constantly to justify opposing basic human rights. The State Department published a notice to create the Commission on Unalienable Rights. The notice says that the Commission “will provide the Secretary of State advice and recommendations...

The Democratic presidential candidates are responding to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s statement today that clarified his investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign and contradicted what Attorney General William Barr released as a summary. While Barr got it right that Mueller found no evidence that the Trump campaign and Russian officials colluded to swing the election for Republicans, Mueller clarified that Trump wasn’t innocent of obstruction of justice. The problem, he said, was that he wasn’t allowed to indict a sitting...

Donald Trump and his son told anti-LGBTQ extremist Roy Moore to not run for Senate, saying that his “ego” is less important than Make America Great Again . Before his failed 2017 bid for U.S. Senator from Alabama, Moore was best known for losing his job as chief justice of the state supreme court twice due to his refusal to follow the law instead of his personal Christian conservative views. During the campaign, though, several women accused him of making inappropriate...

Donald Trump is infamous for disrespecting and discriminating against people of color: He and father Fred were found guilty in a court suit for refusing to rent their properties to black people, he refers to former White House aid Omarosa Manigault Newman as “a dog,” and Congresswoman Maxine Waters as “low IQ.” He called African nations “sh*thole countries;” Mexicans “criminals, drug dealers, and rapists;” neo-Nazis “some good people” and praising Civil War Confederate leader Robert E. Lee as “a great...

Pride is just a week away, and what better way for the Trump administration to commemorate it than by unleashing a series of attacks on the LGBTQ community? The administration, which is little more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the religious right, already has a dreadful track record. But in the past few weeks, Trump and his cronies have gone out of their way to make things even worse, if that’s possible. The latest salvo came Friday, when the administration...

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) had an amazing clap back at Donald Trump and his terrible record on transgender equality. Yesterday, Trump claimed at a press conference that he was “the most transparent president” in the history of the U.S., despite refusing to release his tax returns and White House visitor logs and suing Congress to stop their subpoenas of his administration. Jayapal had simple response to that brag, and she wrote it in an official letter to the President. Yesterday, you stated...

During a live-streamed interview with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa earlier today, Pete Buttigieg was asked if he thought Donald Trump should have served in the Vietnam War. “Well, I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam,” the former Naval intelligence officer replied. Trump, as you may recall, avoided the draft by receiving not one, not two, but five deferments. Four of them he received by attending...

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg gave an girl some advice for dealing with bullies. At a campaign stop in Iowa City, Buttigieg drew questions from a fishbowl and he pulled one from 11-year-old Rebecca Johann: “Do you have any advice about bullying?” He started by saying that it’s important to talk about it. “So I think you’re leading the way on that – thank you for raising the question,” he said. He went on to talk about his experiences. “I had experiences with bullying...

It stems from the recent execution in Iran, a US foe Donald Trump and his administration are launching a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality in countries across the world where being gay is still a crime. NBC News reported the campaign is starting Tuesday evening (19 February) in Berlin. US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the highest-profile openly gay person in the Trump administration, is at the forefront. Reportedly, the US Embassy is flying in LGBTI activists across Europe for a dinner and strategy plan. The efforts will...

Secretive North Korea could open up more as relations warm with the US/World As US president Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un conclude an historic summit in Singapore, we take a look at what it’s like to be gay in North Korea. North Korea is one of the most closed-off and secretive nations in the world. Little is known of life within the nation’s borders, farless about the lives of LGBT people in the country. So here’s what we DO know...