Tag: Donald Trump

A woefully misinformed person on Reddit has declared that Donald Trump gave him the courage to come out as gay. Uh huh. “The support that Donald showed for the LGBT community in Folorado today was heartwarming. It shows the man truly loves everyone in this fine country regardless of who they may be,” writes user Conservative_Horse. “Donald Trump just doesn’t espouse courage, he is courage, and he gave me the courage to come to terms with the fact that I need to...

More than 15 bars in Washington, D.C., have joined a boycott off Yuengling beer after the iconic brewery’s owner endorsed GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Last week, we told you how out Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims called on bars in Philadelphia’s gayborhood to dump Yuengling, which is brewed in nearby Pottsville, after owner Dick Yuengling expressed his support for Trump in a meeting with the candidate’s son, Eric. The Yuengling boycott spread rapidly to bars in Baltimore and Washington, which...

A former Donald Trump supporter is not happy with the nominee for waving a rainbow flag. The Republican Presidential nominee briefly waved an upside-down ‘LGBT for Trump’ Pride flag at a rally today in Colorado. Though Trump did not speak about the flag-waving or affirm any support for LGBT rights, his comments have upset former Trump supporter and militant Christian activist Theodore Shoebat. Mr Shoebat fumed about Trump “bowing down to the sodomite agenda” in a clip snipped by RightWingWatch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WoxR6rp1c4 He fumed: “In...

Twelve. Some things come great in twelves — eggs, doughnuts, Grindr notifications. But it’s not an encouraging polling number, and that’s where Donald Trump’s LGBTQ support currently stands. Despite the overwhelming rejection of the candidate by queer communities, Donald didn’t waste the opportunity at a recent Colorado rally to once again play the “pro gay” Republican character that one needs only to look at the facts to know is offensively inauthentic. Trump grabbed the flag from the audience, which read “LGBTs For Trump,” waving it...

Donald Trump has been damaging his own brand with his bigoted, xenophobic, gaffe and scandal plagued presidential campaign, and the fallout is starting to spread to those who have unwisely hitched their wagon to his falling star. Eric Trump, son of Donald Trump, toured the D. G. Yuengling & Son’s brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on Monday, meeting with owner Richard “Dick” Yuengling. “This is an amazing American success story,” Trump said during a brief news conference at the brewery, Reading Eagle...

Last week, we told you about 31-year-old Dewey Lainhart and his 22-year-old fiancé Cody Moore, two men interviewed by Wall Street Journal’s Jason Bellini during a Trump rally in Cincinnati. When asked if they felt comfortable being affectionate with one another in a roomful of racists, sexists and homophobes, one of men replied, “Ain’t nobody said nothing ’bout it.” Then he added, “I gotta lotta gay friends that support Trump.” “Same here,” the other nodded. Well, since the video went viral — receiving over 196k views, 707 shares,...

'When I See the Hate the Donald Trump Has Brought to His Campaign for President, It Terrifies Me' Following the 18th anniversary of the brutal attack and anti-gay hate crime that resulted in her son Matthew Shepard’s death, Judy Shepard has teamed with pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action to denounce Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign. “I’ve seen what can happen as the result of hate,” Shepard begins, proceeding to recall the horrific events that led to her son’s death in 1998. Her...

Reporter Jason Bellini of the Wall Street Journal recently braved a Trump rally in Cincinnati, where he ran into perhaps the only gay couple in the entire state of Ohio, possibly the nation, voting for the gay-hating, pussy-grabbing Republican. “I’m pretty excited,” one of the men told Bellini. When asked if they felt comfortable being affectionate with one another in a roomful of racists, sexists and homophobes, one of men replied, “Ain’t nobody said nothing ’bout it.” Then he added, “I gotta lotta gay friends...

Anderson Cooper is one of the journalists moderating the presidential candidate Town Hall on Sunday. In anticipation of yet another cruddy performance by Donald Trump (he’s making a mockery of debate prep again), his supporters have decided to go after Cooper with a combination of gay-baiting and loony conspiracy theories. Of course, Prince Tiny Hands himself started the attacks. Last month, Trump complained that Cooper would be “very, very biased,” adding “I don’t think he can be fair.” The crazies that swirl...

"I’m going to vote for Trump! I think he’s a destabilizing force. I’m skeptical of him, too, and who exactly is behind Trump. But given that there’s eternal dissent in the Republican Party, that leads me to believe that whatever he represents might be a destabilizing force. And he’s made a lot of overtures to Russia and China, which in some ways could be thought of as an encouraging thing. I don’t support or endorse any of Trump’s policies....

Does Hillary Clinton have the gay vote sewn up? A surprising number of LGBT voters are backing Donald Trump in the upcoming election. An NBC News poll indicates 20% of queer voters would pull the lever for the Republican nominee if the election were held today. Hillary Clinton has the support of 72% of those polled. Trump has stated he would be better on gay issues than Clinton—and in his convention speech, he promised “I will do everything in my power to...

The model says he sees his condition as an ‘advantage’ when it comes to Trump’s ‘rants’. Nyle DiMarco says he does not see his deafness as an “obstacle”, especially during this “turbulent political year.” The America’s Next Top Model and Dancing With the Stars winner says being deaf is not just part of his identity, but also an “advantage”. “I don’t find not being able to hear an obstacle or a boundary,” he told the crowd at the Human Rights Campaign National...

Here’s the problem with Donald Trump’s campaign: even if he loses — and let’s all hope to God he does — he’s made it easier than ever for truly terrible politicians to behave like absolute lunatics. Trump’s candidacy gives cover to basket cases like Maine Governor Paul LePage, whose racist tirades have been making everyone gasp for far too long. If you pay attention to Maine politics, you know that he’s been claiming for a long time that people of color...

Dying to show off your LGBTQ pride for Donald Trump? No? Oh. Well, then you probably don’t care that the reality-TV-star-turned-Republican-nominee-for-President just released his very first piece of LGBTQ swag on his official campaign website. It’s a rainbow colored t-shirt that says “LGBTQ For Trump” and looks as though it were designed by a very non-LGBTQ graphic design intern who may or may not (probably not) receive college credit for their free labor. The “equality tee” is being sold for $30 a pop (+ S&H) and only comes...