The media and high profiled LGBTQ activists have spent more than a year making Donald Trump’s candidacy out to be the worst thing to happen to gay people since the fanny pack. However, in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, the President-elect announced he doesn’t plan on reversing course on same-sex unions.
Millions of gay Americans have felt targeted by the new administration, especially after media outlets spent countless hours detailing that the incoming Vice President’s agenda against them. Their concern stems from Mike Pence’s support for stripping AIDS funding in Indiana and Trump surrounding himself with people like Ben Carson, who believes homosexuality is fluid. This has been further propagated by an endless series of theories that Trump plans on repealing gay marriage.
The level of anxiety coming from the left reached such a critical mass that, sadly, unconfirmed reports from the editor of Out Magazine claimed that eight transgendered teens committed suicide upon hearing that Trump won the presidency.
Most of the reports that Trump’s White House would be anti-gay is much ado about nothing.
“I have been a supporter (of gay Americans),” Trump said to Lesley Stahl during the 60 Minutes interview.
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05.07.2024