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By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer With the LGBTQ community nationwide under tremendous stress over president Trump's constant flair for switching on a dime a promise he has made to constituents and by surrounding himself with religious conservatives who are stead fast on reversing the progress the LGBTQ community has made over the last 8 years, [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer LGBT POLITICAL NEWS - Rumors are circulating in Washington D.C., that President Donald Trump plans to tap gay republican and former UN spokesman Richard Grenell as the new Ambassador to NATO, according to Bloomberg. I attempted to contact Grenell for official comment on this rumor on Wednesday but received only [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer President Donald Trump's administration late Wednesday Feb. 22, revoked the landmark guidance issued to public schools in defense of transgender student rights, reversing course on a signature initiative of former Democratic President Barack Obama who led the fight for the LGBTQ community to same-sex marriage becoming the law of the [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer A total of three LGBT groups sent a letter to the White House asking the Trump administration to keep in place and secure transgender protections that were put in place by former President Obama. The LGBT organizations wrote the letter in response to the Department of Justice withdrawing an objection [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer A gay man is recovering after being viciously beaten in Logan Circle neighborhood after allegedly being attacked by four men who were chanting 'Trump America'. The attack took place last week in Washington, D.C., police confirmed to this reporter. Acting D.C. Police Lt. Brett Parson, who oversees the police LGBT [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer President Donald Trump made history this week when he became the first sitting Republican president to issue a public affirmation of LGBTQ individuals and vowing to protect them from discrimination if they’re working for the federal government and/or federal contractors. Before and after the election, President Trump called gay marriage [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The White House confirmed early Tuesday in a press statement that President Trump will continue to enforce an Obama-era executive order protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees in the workplace. “President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer Gay and Lesbian civil rights leaders will remember when back in the 50s and 60s, the U.S. State Department was a high profile organization that actively discriminated against employees and job applicants based on sexual orientation. At that time, LGBT rights weren't even thought about and the government willfully refused [...]
By: Michael "The Sizzler" Jacobs, Staff Writer Gay Hook-Up Site Banners Go Up Nationwide in Support of LGBT Rights TORONTO, ONTARIO — Gay hookup site Squirt.org sent word over to our newsroom that they are making a statement in support of LGBT rights with a billboard campaign that launched on January 17 to coincide with [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, gay Republican activists gathered in the nation's capital from Florida, Nevada and DC., to celebrate the transfer of power. Founder of the Log Cabins Republican group, Robert Kabel, who supported Trump, spoke to the Washington Blade in D.C and [...]