Tag: White House

Meet Judd Deere. He’s Donald Trump’s deputy press secretary. His job is to regularly promote the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ policies. Oh, and did we mention he’s gay? “I’m completely open about who I am,” Deere tells Buzzfeed News. “These individuals that I work with in this building don’t treat me any differently because I’m gay.” However, Deere notes, “I don’t walk into the White House every day and say, ‘I’m Judd Deere; I’m gay.’” Deere, who is originally from Arkansas, believes the fact...

If Donald Trump invited Gus Kenworthy to the White House, would he accept the invitation? The American freestyle skier made headlines when he came out in October of 2015. Since then, his athletic career has flourished, and he's gone on to rack up a slew of endorsements and sponsorships. And now, he's poised to make history as he becomes the first openly gay male athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics. But although it's customary for members of Team USA to be invited...

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...

It's "just kind of consistent with the policy of the administration to exclude LGBTQ people." The White House is not spreading Christmas cheer to everyone. Invites were sent out for the annual White House holiday party, but some longtime attendees were left off the invite list—and they think their race and sexual orientation might have played a role. “I assumed it was an oversight, because I’m at the White House every day and contribute to the pool reports,” Chris Johnson, chief political...

Donald Trump’s administration has finally spoken out against Chechnya’s persecution of gay men. In an interview which aired on HBO yesterday, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov called gay people the “devil” and once again denied reports of the gay purge in the region. The leader added that if there were any gay people – who he emphasised were “not people” – living in the region, they should move to Canada. US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that her department found these comments...

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...

Gauthier Destenay, who is married to Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel, was not mentioned in the photo's caption. The White House has been criticised after omitting the husband of Luxembourg’s Prime Minister from a photo caption. Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, posed alongside the wives of world leaders for an historic picture at Royal Castle of Laeken on Thursday night (May 25). He joined First Ladies and partners including Brigitte Macron (France), Melania Trump (USA) Emine Gulbaran Erdogan...

The Obama Administration is preparing to announce the nation’s first monument to gay liberation, Stonewall National Park, which will be located in New York City‘s Greenwich Village, considered the birthplace of the modern movement. The historic designation will encompass the Stonewall Inn bar, Christopher Park, a sliver of green space across the street from the bar, and parts of the surrounding neighborhood. According to The Washington Post, the National Park Service will designate the area as historic in time for the city’s pride celebration,...