When Donald Trump campaigned, he promised to be a different kind of Republican with regards to the LGBTQ community. He awkwardly held an upside down pride flag on stage, went to Twitter to thank the LGBTQ community and even promised to “protect LGBTQ citizens” at his party’s national convention.
Yet like most acts Trump puts on, it was nothing more than obvious pandering and dangerous lies. In the last 10 months, Trump and his bigoted administration have waged a full-scale war on LGBTQ people with orders banning transgender people from serving in the military, appointing a Supreme Court justice openly hostile to LGBTQ people, rescinding protections for transgender students and signing orders to expand discrimination against LGBTQ people.
But the resistance to Trump’s attacks is strong, in part because of the strength of CREDO members and our progressive allies like the National LGBTQ Task Force, including its executive director Rea Carey, who we were honored to welcome recently at our headquarters.
Since 1986, CREDO members have voted to donate more than $461,000 to the LGBTQ Task Force, and CREDO has been a long-time ally of the Task Force’s critical work standing up for the LGBTQ community.
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