Tag: president

It seems a Trump advisor has spoken too soon after claiming Elton John would be singing at President-Elect, Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20. Transition team member, Anthony Scaramucci told BBC Hardtalk Trump would, “be the first American president in US history that enters the White House with a pro-gay rights stance.” “Elton John is going to be doing our concert on the mall for the inauguration,” Scaramucci added. https://twitter.com/BBCHARDtalk/status/801197690360983552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Erm, might be time to check your facts there buddy. A representative for John...

Chuck Redding, 75, tells Gay Star News about being attacked by an angry stranger. A 75-year-old gay Florida man says he was pulled from his car and beaten to the ground in the name of Donald Trump. Chuck Redding of Sarasota describes the incident this way: ‘He yanked the door open, dragged me out, ripped my shirt. I was on the pavement. He kept saying, “You know my new president says we can kill all you faggots now.” Redding tells Gay Star...

Those may be the three scariest words in the English language. Unfortunately, they are also reality for the next four years. The pundits will spend countless hours trying to figure out just what combination of events led Trump to pull the most stunning political upset since Truman’s defeat of Dewey in 1948. Was it that Clinton was too damaged and establishment of a candidate? Was it that the polls seriously underestimated Trump’s appeal? Was it that white working class voters...

Dear President Elect Trump, First off, congratulations on winning the 2016 Presidential Election. Your campaign has changed history and will be a chapter in history books in the future. I am an openly gay high school basketball coach and social studies teacher from Yonkers, NY. Over the last 18 months I have followed your campaign closely and often protested its tone. The rhetoric has made so many communities feel less then supported. The LGBTQ community, African-Americans, Latinos, Women and Muslims have...

Exit polls have thrown up some rather thought-provoking statistics. Exit polls have revealed 14% of LGBT voters chose Donald Trump for president. Back in September, a pre-election survey ran by NBC News and SurveyMonkey found that 20% of LGBT voters planned to support Trump, while 72% were in favour of Clinton – and those results weren’t too far off. The New York Times has published results of a national exit poll of 24,537 voters from 350 voting stations across the United States, suggesting that...

Indonesia’s president has condemned rampant anti-LGBT discrimination in his country. After months of silence, Joko Widodo has finally spoken against the worsening climate for LGBT people living in Indonesia, who have faced a sharp increase in legal and social prejudice over the last year. He told the BBC: “The police must act . There should be no discrimination against anyone.” The short statement comes following what Human Rights Watch describes as “months of increasingly hateful rhetoric from government officials and religious organisations”...

Madonna might not understand the demographics of her fanbase very well, after offering fans a blowjob if they vote for Hillary Clinton. The gay icon made the outlandish offer while introducing comic Amy Schumer for a set at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Before introducing Schumer, Madonna made a rather unseemly offer to the crowd, a few hours before the final Presidential debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KNg8SVVRik She quipped: “One more thing before I introduce this genius of comedy. “If you vote for Hillary Clinton, I will give you...

This is Joe Exotic, and he’s got pretty much everything going for him. He’s not cutting his hair. He’s not changing the way he dresses. He refuses to wear a suit. He’s gay. He’s has had two boyfriends most of his life, and he recently got married. He’s had kinky sex, tried drugs, and is” broke as shit.” Plus, and perhaps most crucially, he has a  judgement against him from “some bitch down there in Florida.” And in the video below, flanked by live...

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...

A large majority of registered LGBT voters support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, according to results of two weeks of the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll. Seventy-two percent of registered LGBT voters support Clinton, compared to 20 percent who support Trump. On the campaign trail, Trump has touted himself as the better candidate to fight for LGBT rights, but his decision to pick Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running-mate was seen by some as contradictory to his LGBT-friendly claims. When Libertarian...

The President of Chile has said she will soon send a bill to the country’s Congress to legalise same-sex marriage. President Michelle Bachelet made an address to the Unite Nations General Assembly panel on Wednesday. During the speech, she said the bill would go to Congress in the first half of next year, 2017. “My government has committed to submit to Congress a bill on marriage equality during the first half of 2017,” Bachelet said, reads a transcript. “Furthermore, it will also consider...

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...

Even if the Chirch stand against same-sex unions in Italy, last week Italian parliament passed same-sex unions bill. Reactions from the Church's representatives were negative. Catholic Archbishops don't want the law and a leader said it:  “There is a big slice of the country that this law does not want it. I believe this way of doing is creeping fascism.” Despite many negative reactions from the Church, Italy's President Sergio Mattarell signed the bill into law, so he made it clear...

All Bolivian transgender people who wish to change their names and gender on their ID cards should apply to the Ministry of Justice and go through an examination at the psychologist to get the necessary permission. The Minister of Justice of Bolivia Virginia Velasco Condori claimed that soon transgender people will be able to change their name, sex and gender legally on their legal documents. At the press conference in La Paz Velasco she said that the Justice Department is going...