"It went into hibernation during the Obama years," said Michael Vargas, 35, the club's current co-president.Then came the election of Donald Trump as Obama's successor in 2016, putting Republicans back in control of the White House.
The Trump administration soon started chipping away at the LGBTQ rights gained during the previous eight years.It prompted renewed interest in having an LGBTQ Democratic club in the South Bay, said Vargas, an attorney who splits his time between his home and practice in San Jose and the apartment he and his husband, Brent Burfield, rent in Sacramento's The Pocket neighborhood."The most recent iteration of the club was founded in 2017 with Donald Trump doing a lot of anti-LGBTQ stuff," said Vargas, who married.