By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump on Thursday surprised reporters by taking multiple questions for the first time in months. On the agenda, defending his controversial ban on transgender troops serving in the military by doubling down on his twitter from a couple of weeks ago saying "I'm Doing Them [...]
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: 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: 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 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 [...]