Waking Up And Smelling The Coffee

We have all heard about or know someone who is LGBT that supported Trump many of them are starting to wake up to the fact that they bought his lies hook, line, and sinker.

Trump Will Be First President to Address Anti-LGBT Values Voter Summit
Trump, who addressed the gathering as a candidate the past two years, joins far-right luminaries such as Roy Moore, Phil Robertson, and Michele Bachmann.
The Advocate
By Trudy Ring
October 12, 2017

Donald Trump will join a who’s who of the religious right Friday at the Values Voter Summit, as he becomes the first sitting president to address the event, sponsored by the anti-LGBT Family Research Council.

Trump is scheduled to speak during Friday’s opening plenary session, which runs from 8:45 a.m. to noon. “Values voters are coming to our nation’s capital thankful to hear from a president who is fulfilling the promises that he campaigned on,” FRC president Tony Perkins said in a press release this week. “Since the early days of the campaign, President Trump allied himself with values voters, promising to put an end to the eight years of relentless assault on the First Amendment.”

Perkins praised the Trump administration’s issuance last week of a “religious freedom” order, which is actually a broad license to discriminate in both the public and private sectors without repercussion. For instance, a company with a federal government contract could cite religious objections in refusing to hire LGBT people or members of different faiths without the contract being revoked. Federal employees could refuse to process paperwork for same-sex spouses’ Social Security or veterans’ benefits without facing discipline.

The Family Research Council called a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC  defines a “hate groups” as…

The Southern Poverty Law Center defines a hate group as an organization that – based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities – has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.

The organizations on our hate group list vilify others because of their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity – prejudices that strike at the heart of our democratic values and fracture society along its most fragile fault lines.

The FBI uses similar criteria in its definition of a hate crime:

[A] criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.

We define a “group” as an entity that has a process through which followers identify themselves as being part of the group. This may involve donating, paying membership dues or participating in activities such as meetings and rallies. Individual chapters of a larger organization are each counted separately, because the number indicates reach and organizing activity.

Note that it is not just because they are against LGBT issues but they “vilify others".

Some LGBT are starting to see the light.

Caitlyn Jenner calls Trump administration the “worst ever” for LGBT+ rights
Gaytimes
By Daniel Megarry
12th October 2017

“I was hoping for a lot better…”

Caitlyn Jenner has once again backtracked on her support for the President of the United States.

The trans reality star and staunch Republican faced heavy criticism from the LGBT+ community after voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, despite warnings that he would halt or even reverse advances in equality.

Back in June last year, she declared that Trump was “very much behind” LGBT+ rights in America, despite him already stating he would “strongly consider” appointing justices to overrule same-sex marriage.

Unsurprisingly, Trump has so far been abysmal on LGBT+ rights, having rescinded trans student’s bathroom protections, given freedom to discriminate against LGBT+ people, and announced a ban on trans individuals serving in the military.

So does she feel bad for voting for Trump? Well…

But despite saying she doesn’t regret voting for Trump, and later making the questionable decision to wear a Make America Great Again hat, Caitlyn has this week slammed the US president in a KABC interview.

“I was hoping for a lot better than this,” she explained. “And I was somewhat optimistic and I thought this guy is going to be OK. He has totally, totally disappointed me.”

A gay man who voted for Trump also has a hard time admitting he made a mistake,

Well, at Least One Gay Republican Who Supported Trump Finally Understands His Administration Is Anti-LGBT. Maybe.
'This Administration Will Go Down as the Most Anti-LGBT in History'
The New Civil Rights Movement
By David Badash
October 12, 2017

Remember GOProud, the off-the-wall LGBT Tea Party Republican group that lasted a few years until the antics of its co-founders burned it out? The two co-founders, Chris Barron and Jimmy LaSalvia, spent years attacking "the gay left." One went on to support and actively work to not only mainstream Donald Trump, but get him elected.

This, by the way, was Barron in 2011:

The gay left = the American Taliban. Hateful, angry and dumb as shit.

Barron, who claims he "helped create Donald Trump the politician," threw his support behind the Manhattan real estate mogul who has a long and ugly history of racism. And he created LGBTers for Trump.
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And now?

“I think, personally, the president has met my expectations,” Barron tells The Daily Beast in an article published Thursday.

“My concern has always been what happens at the department and agency levels. And I definitely have concerns with what is going on at Department of Justice. The attorney general [Jeff Sessions] has a very different position on LGBT issues than the president does. But his job is to carry forward the president’s agenda and not push his own… I’m certainly concerned he is [pushing his own].”

Let's pause for just a moment and remember that tomorrow, Friday, Trump will become the first sitting President to address the Values Voter Summit, a far right wing annual political conference hosted by an anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council.

What will it take for these collaborators to admit they were wrong?

This administration has done everything in its power to criminalize us, they will not be happy until we are either forced back in the closet or behind bars.