At the Republican National Convention, he implicitly endorsed an anti-gay GOP platform.
In recognition of this, Logo is celebrating Pride 2017 by releasing 10 animated shorts that tell the stories of different LGBTQ people throughout history. Trump has hinted at support for letting businesses and individuals discriminate against LGBT people, as blogger Andy Towle notes. Logo LGBTQ people often aren’t featured in our history textbooks and if they are, it’s usually in a way that erases their queerness. (For the record, his opponent, Hillary Clinton, is far more specific about her support for LGBT people, frequently addresses LGBT groups, and marched in New York City’s Pride earlier this year.)īut while these symbols are important, they don’t make up for the other ways that Trump denigrates the dignity of LGBT people.įirst there’s his zeal for restricting LGBT rights-letting states ban transgender people from using the bathroom of their gender identity, opposing the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, his promise to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will reverse the ruling, or his choice of one of America’s most rabidly anti-gay politicians as his vice president. And he should be applauded for being the first GOP nominee to address LGBT people in his speeches. The pink band symbolizes women the blue, men and the yellow, those of a non-binary gender, such as agender, bigender or genderfluid.
Certainly, Trump deserves credit for breaking symbolic barriers of associating himself with the LGBT flag.
