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Yet, concerns about Trump's potential to roll back LGBT victories loom large. "Everything Trump has done and said in regard to the LGBT community, even before he ran for president, has indicated that he would do no harm if not be an ally." "Have we ever had a Republican nominee for president who used the phrase, 'LGBT community,' let alone used a major policy address as an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the country's LGBT community? I don't think so," said Gregory Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's largest pro-LGBT Republican organization, in a forwarded statement to ATTN.
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Prominent gay Republican groups have voiced cautious support for the candidate so far, but have yet to throw their full weight behind his campaign. The same sentiment has cropped up on pro-Trump LGBT Facebook pages, too. “Radical Islam is dedicated to the extermination of LGBT folks, and Donald Trump gave what I thought was one of the most powerful and passionate speeches defending LGBT Americans on Monday,” Barron said.Īfter Sunday, every LGBT American should be for /EpmOQcgms6- Chris Barron June 14, 2016 “We've got two candidates running for president, one of whom recognizes that there is an existential threat to LGBT folks, not just here in America, but globally.”īarron added that Trump’s public statements about fighting terrorism, and his proposal to ban Muslim immigration, made him better suited to protect the LGBT community than Clinton, who he deems too soft on issues of national security. “I think particularly in the wake of what happened in Orlando on Sunday, the choice could not be more stark or more clear,” Chris Barron, a strategist and prominent gay conservative who is mobilizing LGBT voters to support Trump, told ATTN. Trump > Hillary /GHNtMqtjuH- Chris Barron May 21, 2016 So why would Trump be any different in allowing LGBTQ+ hate to spread rapidly around the country?" Trump's LGBT support is very rare, but not non-existent. "Trump has consistently condoned the violence that his supporters commit against minorities and people who think outside of the white heteronormative mindset. "A Trump presidency would allow for the institutionalization and legitimization of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments," Chris Chehade, an international relations student at NYU, told ATTN. "Trump's rhetoric today isn't fooling anyone and what he is peddling isn’t protection," Brown said.