The threats blended as President Donald Trump allowed the pandemic to spread and openly denied the results of the November election that he lost by seven million popular votes and 74 Electoral College votes.
And while both of these threats dominated the news throughout 2020, there were some LGBTQ-specific events that stood out for the history books.
Here are our candidates for 2020's Top 10 LGBTQ news stories.10: Gay man to cabinet-level positionTrump named an openly gay man to a cabinet-level position February 20.
Richard Grenell, a longtime Republican gay activist and staunch Trump supporter, became the nation's new acting director of national intelligence.