The Trump Administration has attacked the LGBTQ community 92 times in policy and rhetoric

Since taking office, the Trump Administration has targeted the LGBTQ community 92 times.

In anticipation of that bozo Trump's State of the Union address come a reminder from GLAAD.

“There is no reason for LGBTQ Americans or anyone else to see tonight’s State of the Union as anything more than empty rhetoric designed to distract from what’s really happening behind the scenes every day,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO at GLAAD. “What LGBTQ people know is this: The Trump Administration is the most anti-LGBTQ in modern history, and will seemingly stoop to any low to roll back the hard-won progress of marginalized communities in this country.”  

 According to GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project (TAP), President Trump and his administration have unleashed more than 92 attacks against LGBTQ Americans in policy and rhetoric. From disbanding of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, discharging two service members living with HIV, and banning transgender service members from openly serving their country, GLAAD has catalogued every anti-LGBTQ action by this administration at www.glaad.org/trump.

Ninety-two reasons why the Trump Administration is easily the most homophobic one we have been in a generation. You can read the complete list here. But here are some of the latest items on the list to get you started:

01.28.19 - President Trump meets with Ginni Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and anti-LGBTQ group Groundswell at the White House. According to news reports, Ms. Thomas led a meeting with President Trump at the White House where participants denounced transgender Americans and claimed the historic, nationwide marriage equality ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court was “harming the fabric of the United States.” The Supreme Court is on the verge of deciding whether to take up a case regarding Trump's ban on allowing transgender service members from serving in the nation's armed forces.

01.23.19 - The Trump Administration approved a waiver request by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, which could give faith-based adoption agencies the ability to deny LGBTQ couples adoption rights based on so-called "religious exemptions" -- all while using government tax dollars. 

 01.11.19 - More than 13,000 federal workers identifying as LGBTQ do not receive a paycheck as President Trump's government shutdown becomes the longest shut down in U.S. history.

01.03.19 - In a leaked memo by the Justice Department, the Trump Administration considers dissolving the "disparate impact" regulation, which grants marginalized communities (including LGBTQ Americans) legal protections from unintended discrimination in housing, education, and other ways of life.  

 01.01.19 - NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine invites Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, to visit the United States. Rogozin, a politician, is vehemently anti-LGBTQ and even compared the community to ISIS.  

12.21.18 - The Department of Justice issued a "Statement of Interest" on a pending case involving the University of Iowa and an anti-LGBTQ student organization. The DOJ sided with the student group that indirectly bars an LGBTQ person from joining their organization. This indirect discrimination is known as a "disparate impact" form of discrimination.  

 12.20.18 - The Trump Administration tightens its regulations on access to food stamps, affecting about the 1 in 4 LGBTQ adults who apply for the SNAP program.   

 12.19.18 - The Trump Administration discharges two service members in the Air Force after disclosing their HIV-positive status to the Department of Defense.  

 12.09.18 - The Trump Administration quietly shuts down a HIV research facility in Montana after the administration objected to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its scientists using fetal tissue as a part of its research to find a cure for HIV and AIDS.

'DC school refuses to play sports where Karen Pence teaches over anti-LGBTQ policies' & other Tue midday news briefs

Karen Pence

DC school refuses to play sports at school where Karen Pence teaches over anti-LGBTQ policies - The anti-LGBTQ school 2nd Lady Karen Pence has chosen to associate with is feeling the heat for its homophobic policies. Another school doesn't want to associate with it. Rather than taking in the irony, some folks are no doubt whining about being victims.

After years of bullying, this trans teen was named Homecoming Queen by her classmates - Sweet! Enjoy your victory. 

In ‘Single Record,’ Rapper Finds His Truth Could Cost Him A Career — And His Life - Fascinating and much needed.

Madonna to receive major LGBTQ honor at 2019 GLAAD Media Awards - Congratulations, Madonna!

Group accusing LGBTQ community of being racist has own problem with racism

E.W. Jackson (first photo) Peter LaBarbera (second photo)

A bunch of religious right leaders will be assembling a press conference on Tuesday for something they call the Gone Too Far Movement. 

Right Wing Watch mentions the event.

Scott Lively, Peter LaBarbera, Stephen Broden, E.W. Jackson and other anti-LGBTQ activists have founded something called the Gone Too Far Movement and will be holding a press conference in Washington, D.C., next week to “challenge the attempt to hijack America’s Civil Rights laws with the pending Equality Act H.R. 2282 in Congress.”

What it actually is the usual assemblage of predominantly white anti-LGBTQ activists so radical ('Porno Pete' Labarbera, Scott Lively) that "mainstream"religious right groups avoid them, sprinkled with odd and ends of black leadership (?)  willing to be used for some media attention, and all united to accuse the LGBTQ community of perverting society, molesting children, recruiting children, and attempting to grab the mantle of the Civil Rights Movement.

Here are two things you should know:

1. The Equality Act HR 2282 they are railing against is a bill which would provide massive anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community. That explains why these charlatans are so opposed to it. This is what they are claiming:

The GTFM (Gone2FarMovement) recognizes that the Equality Act H.R. 2282 is a dangerous, irresponsible, outlandish, morally perverse, and socially deleterious legislation. The Equality Act poses a direct threat to religious freedom and the dignity of Blacks and women by blending the immutability of sex and race with radical-LGBTQ theories, and H.R. 2282 aims to amend 59 existing federal laws and regulations. GTFM believes that H.R. 2282 if passed, will create a dangerous legal precedent creating social chaos and legal loopholes permitting reverse discrimination, and it has the potential to establish legal protections for previously illegal sexual practices and conduct. The GTFM will issue a Proclamation of Faith opposed to the Equality Act and call for the Congressional Black Caucus to resign. The Gone Too Far Movement is bi-partisan, interracial, interfaith, and a nationwide collection of Americans who want to protect and preserve faith, family, freedom, traditional values, and to counter the movement to legalize pedophilia.

2. And this is the funny part of it all - it's ironic that this group is specifically targeting the Congressional Black Caucus and claiming that the Equality Act would high jack the Civil Rights Movement, when one of its members, E.W. Jackson, is known for several eyebrowing raising and racist comments

E.W. Jackson: Men Wearing Earrings Is A Plot By Racist White Liberals To Emasculate Black Men

E.W. Jackson: America’s “Never Been” Racist Since “Arab Muslims” Started Slave

E.W. Jackson: Electing Muslims to Congress Is ‘Just Beyond the Pale’

E.W. Jackson Says Shooting Of Philando Castile Was Reasonable

E.W. Jackson: Black Lives Matter Is ‘Demonic’

Seems to me that if you are starting a group implying that the LGBTQ community is racist, maybe it's not a good idea to be joining up with someone who has been accused of being an actual racist.

'Transgender service members to attend State of the Union address' & other Mon midday news briefs

Transgender service members to attend State of the Union as guests - Wonderful. Let Trump stare these men and women in the face. They protect our freedoms, but he has the nerve to claim that they are unfit to serve. What a coward.

Federal judge says harmful conversion therapy is just ‘speech’ and shouldn’t be restricted - What kind of okie doke bullshit is this?

Disney Will Host Its First Official LGBTQ Pride Event This Summer - The first "official" LGBTQ pride event that is.

Black History Month: 11 black LGBTQ trailblazers who made history - Last, but not least . . . gone are the days when LGBTQs of color are ignored during Black History Month.

8 Inspiring Queer Black Icons You Should Know About- And if some of the names in this article are the same as in the above article, then good. You're less likely to forget who they are.

'Drag Queen Story Hour' opponents are hypocrites . . . featuring Bugs Bunny

There is a twofold purpose of this post - 1. To provide a bit of comedy  2. To poke fun at the hypocrisy of all the folks who have a problem with the Drag Queen Story Hour taking place across the country. You have a problem with a perfectly innocent event enjoyed by children and their parents simply because it is about drag queens reading to children? You have no problem when Bugs Bunny dresses in drag to entertain your children. Why do you have a problem with folks dressing in drag to entertain AND educate your children?

'Franklin Graham embarrasses himself in defending Donald Trump's lies' & other Thur midday news briefs

Franklin Graham

Franklin Graham Comes Up With A Brazen New Way To Excuse 8,000+ Trump Lies - One of the very few good things (and I don't even want to give the Orange bozo credit for that) with Trump being in the White House is how his presence is exposing the blind hypocrisy of the anti-LGBTQ right and their leaders like Franklin Graham. 

 And it's a wonderful to bring up this piece from 2011 in which Franklin embraced birtherism - i.e. the idea that Obama is not an American citizen. - Rev. Franklin Graham a birther?

Armed Man Disrupts Houston Library During Drag Queen Storytime - What the homophobic whine about Drag Queen Storytime can lead to. It is an innocent event popular with children AND their parents. And that is it.

This is what a local government thinks transgender people look like? - Oh good Lord . . . 

Report Finds Slowdown in Schools' LGBTQ+ Inclusion - It's all about deliberate erasure.

Jussie Smollett attack highlights amplified risks facing black LGBT community - So dang true.

Parents of trans youth remind us what is important in this 'culture war'

HRC's Parents for Transgender Equality National Council

When it comes to transgender issues, the anti-LGBTQ industry and activists generally bogart the conversation  so much that it's difficult to hear from transgender men, women, children and their families. That's why this recent event held by the Human Rights Campaign's Parents for Transgender Equality National Council is so important and needs to be elevated in the spotlight:

Today, HRC's Parents for Transgender Equality National Council, a group of the nation’s leading parent-advocates in the fight for transgender equality, met with members of Congress to discuss their families’ moving journeys and the urgent need for Congress to pass the Equality Act. The Equality Act is a comprehensive LGBTQ civil rights bill which is a priority for the U.S. House’s new pro-equality leadership and is expected to be re-introduced soon. 

U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy, III (D-MA), chair of the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force, hosted the convening of parents of transgender and gender expansive young people. Representative Kennedy was joined by U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Mark Takano (D-CA), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Chris Pappas (D-NH) and Gil Cisneros (D-CA). 

“For transgender young people, passing the Equality Act would be life-affirming and, in some cases, lifesaving,” said Jay Brown, Acting Senior Vice President, HRC Programs, Research & Training. “These parents’ children need and deserve clear protections from discrimination throughout daily life, from welcoming schools to inclusive health care. The unique stories and voices of these parents have already changed countless minds, and they will be critical in continuing to push equality forward alongside allies like Representative Kennedy and the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force.” 

“For two years, transgender children have fought daily battles against intolerance in their schools and their communities, while the adults tasked with protecting them at the highest levels of this Administration offer words of bigotry and hatred instead,” said U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy, III, chair of the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force. “Listening to these parents today demonstrated once again that there is no force greater than a parent’s love and no force darker than a government that fails to see the humanity in her youngest citizens. We fight with those children and their parents because they should never doubt that they are heard and they are seen, and they should always know that they will never be erased.”

The entire story is here and deserves a read and a share.