During the Republican National Convention in July, the GOP unveiled the most virulently anti-LGBT platform in its history. These static numbers might suggest that conservative voters in the LGBT community are merely diehards who will vote for any Republican candidate, no matter how dangerous or destructive their beliefs are. That’s roughly in line with, if a bit smaller than the LGBT support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney back in 2012 (23 percent), John McCain in 2008 (27 percent) and George W.
An estimated 20 percent of registered LGBT voters plan to vote for the billionaire businessman, according to a NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll conducted in September, while 80 percent are voting for Clinton. Trump’s support in the LGBT community is small but nonetheless considerable.
YouTube star Kyle Kittleson said he was backing Trump last year, but has since rescinded his support. A Cincinnati gay couple made headlines after showing up at a Trump rally holding hands. Keller, who has guested on the first season of HBO’s acclaimed “High Maintenance,” told Office magazine that he thinks Trump could bring about a political revolution, calling him a “destabilizing force.” PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, a Trump supporter, became the first openly gay man to speak at the Republican National Convention in June. Last week adult entertainer Colby Keller, the erudite hunk often known as the “thinking man’s gay porn star,” made waves when he came out as a Trump supporter. It might seem hypocritical that someone can have gay friends and still support Trump but that fact shouldn’t be surprising - especially when there are plenty of LGBT voters planning to cast a ballot for him on Election Day. The group hopes to target LGBT voters - a population that’s estimated to be at about 10 million - to help put Clinton over the top. The ad is part of an unprecedented get-out-the-vote effort in key swing states seen as pivotal to Clinton’s chances of winning on Election Day, which include battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida and Nevada. That’s the question that the Human Rights Campaign is asking in a new video designed to mobilize support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The administration also has moved to restrict military service by trans men and women, proposed allowing certain homeless shelters to take gender identity into account in offering someone a bed for the night, and concluded in a 2017 justice department memo that federal civil rights law does not protect trans people from discrimination at work.įriday’s announcement came on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, when a shooter killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.How could you possibly vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump if you have a friend, family member or co-worker who is LGBT?
“No one should fear being turned away by a medical provider because of who they are or the personal health decisions they have made,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center.įor the administration, it is the latest in a series of steps to revoke newly won protections for LGBTQ+ people in areas ranging from the military to housing and education. Women’s groups say the new regulations also undermine access to abortion, which is a legal medical procedure. Roger Severino, head of the health department unit that enforces civil rights laws, has said trans people continue to be protected by other statutes that bar discrimination in healthcare on account of race, color, national origin, age, disability and other factors.īut LGBTQ+ groups have long argued protections are needed for people seeking gender confirmation treatment, and for trans people who need medical care for common conditions such as diabetes or heart problems. The rule was meant to carry out the anti-discrimination section of the Affordable Care Act, which bars sex discrimination in healthcare but does not use the term “gender identity”. Under the Obama-era federal rule, a hospital could be required to perform gender-transition procedures such as hysterectomies if the facility provided that kind of treatment for other medical conditions.