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President Trump and his administration just voted against a United Nations ban on the death penalty for being gay, making the United States of America (it’s hard to think this is actually really happening) just one of 13 other countries in the world to oppose such a historic vote. A few other notable countries who voted against the ban were China, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. The resolution wasn’t sought to ban the death penalty entirely, but instead to keep...

The only White House reporter from an LGBT news organization, as well as a prominent African-American White House correspondent, did not receive invitations this year. In late November 2017, reports began circulating online holding that at least two journalists who cover the White House for news outlets that focus on the LGBT and African-American communities were not invited to the upcoming White House Christmas party, even though they had been in attendance during previous years. Chris Johnson, White House reporter for...

LOS ANGELES - In response to President Trump's tweeted endorsement of the far-right, anti-Muslim group Britain First, the Los Angeles LGBT Center issued the following statement: "The Los Angeles LGBT Center joins with the international human rights community to condemn President Trump’s endorsement this morning of far-right propaganda against Muslims. "Tweeting videos spread by British extremists that further demonize Muslims opens the door for Trump’s supporters to target Muslims for acts of hatred and violence. This action is indefensible on many...

Jessica Lundquist and Tiffany Steinberg recently returned to the Huntington Beach pier in Orange County, California to celebrate their second anniversary in the same place where they held hands in public for the very first time. Unfortunately, while they were out celebrating, they were approached by an unfamiliar man. Lundquist said, "he got uncomfortably close...he said that we were 'unnatural' and we were going to hell for our actions...we were just trying to get away from the conversation." More from OC Weekly: The...

On LGBTI rights, could Mike Pence be even worse than Trump? President Donald Trump has reportedly said he believes, ‘jokingly’, his VP Mike Pence wants to ‘hang all the gays’. In the New Yorker profile of the vice president, White House sources have revealed the kind of ‘friendship’ the two men have. ‘Trump thinks Pence is great,’ Bannon told the paper, in a piece titled The Danger of President Pence. But, according to a longtime associate, Trump also likes to ‘let Pence know...

Canada has opened its doors to the gay and bi men tortured in Chechnya while Trump remains silent. It’s been several months since reports began surfacing that gay and bisexual men were being rounded up and tortured in Chechnya, and now, the Toronto-based group Rainbow Railroad has released a video statement announcing that the group has helped 31 of the persecuted men escape to Canada. The group’s Executive Director Kimahli Powell detailed the group’s work to provide emergency visas and...

A former Navy SEAL Team 6 member who is transgender, who also helped track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, is calling out President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers. Kristin Beck, who served 20 years as Chris Beck in the Navy SEALS, told Business Insider in an interview on Wednesday that Trump’s military ban unfairly discriminates people like her. “Being transgender doesn’t affect anyone else,” Beck said, alluding to Trump’s concerns that transgender service members would be a distraction. Beck also...

Reports suggest some of Donald Trump’s cronies have reached out to a group called Deplorable Pride; a group that wasn’t allowed to march in this year’s parade in Charlotte, North Carolina. On Monday, the group’s cofounder Brian Talbert revealed The White House Office of Political Affairs contacted him personally in a “show of support.” The Charlotte Observer reports the Deplorable Pride float would’ve come complete with a shudder-inspiring “female impersonator dressed as first lady Melania Trump, surrounded by a handful of...

Well, we can’t say we saw this one coming. The Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago was lit up in rainbow colors, seemingly in celebration of Chicago Pride this weekend. https://twitter.com/BlakeNBC/status/877367214227300352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F06%2Ftrump-hotel-lit-rainbow-colors-pride-not-long%2F Joe Jervis, at Joe My God, looked into the situation, and after several attempts at getting a statement from the hotel got exactly nowhere. “We’ve been told not to say anything until the PR person puts out a statement,” a person in the hotel’s marketing department told him. When Jervis noted that...

Queen Elizabeth II isn’t having any of the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric being spewed by Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and other Republicans. In an address to the UK parliament today, the 91-year-old monarch publicly pledged to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. Said the Queen: “My government will make further progress to tackle the gender pay gap and discrimination against people on the basis of their race, faith, gender, disability or sexual orientation.” But it didn’t stop there. The Queen also informed the public–in her reserved, British...

Not all heroes wear capes. A Rhode Island teacher has become an overnight sensation after using an official photo opportunity with Donald Trump to put on a sassy and inspiring display of LGBT+ Pride. Nikos Giannopoulos’ met the US President and First Lady Melania during a visit to the White House in April after being named Rhode Island’s Teacher of the Year, and a striking picture of the trio together has gone viral after being shared on social media this week. The...

As we reported earlier today, the official White House website hails June as “National Homeownership Month,” “African-American Music Appreciation Month,” “National Caribbean-Ameriacn Heritage Month,” “National Ocean Month,” and “Great Outdoors Month.” However, it makes absolutely no mention of the fact that it’s also Pride month, too. That’s just one of several reasons people are furious at Donald Trump for a tweet he sent late last night to ostensibly pay tribute to the victims of the Pulse massacre last year, which...

He did make time to honor National Homeownership Month, Great Outdoors Month and National Ocean Month, though As just about everyone reading this knows, June is Pride Month. But if you were looking to the White House for an acknowledgement, you’d be out of luck. Breaking with tradition, President Trump declined to issue a proclamation announcing Pride Month. In between Twitter non sequiturs, Trump did manage to issue proclamations recognizing June as National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, African-American Music Appreciation Month, National...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Donald Trump will sign an executive order this week that will see the Interior Department reviewing all national monument designations of the past 21 years, including last year’s designation of the Stonewall Inn. Barack Obama designated the site a national monument last year, saying at the time: “Stonewall will be our first national monument to tell the story of the struggle for LGBT rights.” Now the Stonewall Inn’s special status is threatened. According to the Tribune,...