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Trump breaks tradition of recognizing LGBTQ Pride Month

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June 1 marks the beginning of Pride Month, an annual celebration of the LGBTQ movement rooted in the community activism that built off the 1969 Stonewall Riots. President Donald Trump, who has long claimed to be an LGBTQ ally, could have become the first Republican president to acknowledge Pride Month with a proclamation, but he didn’t — and the silence is deafening.

President Bill Clinton was the first president to issue a Pride Month proclamation. The tradition didn’t immediately catch on; his successor, President George W. Bush, was an outspoken opponent of LGBTQ equality who campaigned on banning same-sex marriage. But President Barack Obama not only embraced the tradition, but also set a new precedent for it. In addition to issuing a proclamation at the beginning of each Pride Month of his two terms, he also held an annual White House reception to celebrate the movers and shakers of the LGBTQ movement.

There is no reception on Trump’s agenda, and the absence of a Pride Month proclamation is quite conspicuous. Shin Inouye, who served as Obama’s LGBTQ communications liaison from 2009–2014, was the first to notice that Trump had issued several other proclamations for June this week, such as “National Homeownership Month” and “African-American Music Appreciation Month” — but none for Pride.

 

 

read more here:

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pride-month-790238dcf69b

i mean, we kinds expected this right? jj4 

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who even cares lol it's not like his blessing is something to covet 

 

Also ki at me double checking the definition of covet, this is what they give as an example

 

"the president-elect covets time for exercise and fishing" fall8 

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i'm shocked

Same. And to think there are actual LBGT people that voted for him  

Yea cause he's trash


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