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President Trump prioritizes extreme anti-LGBTQ activists ahead of LGBTQ community during Pride Month<\/b><\/p>\n

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Trump to join some of the most Anti-LGBTQ leaders at a conference by the Faith and Freedom Coalition<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2013 GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today called out President Donald Trump for putting anti-LGBTQ activists ahead LGBTQ Americans during LGBTQ Pride Month. So far this June, Trump broke from tradition\u00a0by refusing<\/a> to issue a presidential proclamation that celebrates the LGBTQ community, opting instead to recognize Great Outdoors Month and National Ocean Month. Now, just days before Washington, D.C.\u2019s Capitol\u00a0Pride and the National Equality March, President Trump is going out of his way to deliver a speech to anti-LGBTQ activists at a conference<\/a> hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition. The Coalition, founded by\u00a0Ralph Reed<\/a>, has a long record of anti-LGBTQ activism, including opposing marriage equality and lobbying<\/a>\u00a0against the\u00a0Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).\u00a0<\/p>\n

While President Trump\u2019s daughter Ivanka has tried to save face by issuing empty sentiments<\/a> in support of Pride Month via two tweets, the Trump Administration has started Pride Month with deafening silence and continuing a trend of systematically erasing LGBTQ Americans from the fabric of this nation.\u00a0In case Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s anti-LGBTQ record isn\u2019t already clear enough, take a look below at who he will be participating in the Faith and Freedom Coalition annual “Road to Majority” conference alongside. Vice President Mike Pence<\/a> is also scheduled to speak at the conference.<\/p>\n

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: ANIT-LGBTQ RECORDS OF <\/strong>“ROAD TO MAJORITY” 2017 SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ralph Reed: Founder and Chair of the Faith and Freedom Coalition<\/strong>
— Claimed\u00a0federal workplace protections for LGBTQ people would be “a dagger aimed at the heart of religious freedom for millions of Americans<\/a>” and called for federal government to stop giving funding<\/a> to the National Cathedral simply because of the church’s support for marriage equality.<\/p>\n

James Dobson: Anti-LGBTQ Author and Radio Host<\/strong>
— Among his many false claims, Dobson has said being gay<\/a> “has to do with an identity crisis that occurs too early to remember it<\/a>” and that gay<\/a> people “have as many as 300 to 1,000 partners in a lifetime<\/a>.”\u00a0 He has also falsely claimed that committed gay<\/a> couples<\/a> “cannot be a family<\/a>” and that allowing them to get married would “destroy the family<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Michael Medved: Radio Host and Anti-LGBTQ Advocate<\/strong>
— Longtime anti-LGBTQ advocate, has become increasingly focused on promoting transgender hate speech in recent years. Wrote on his website<\/a> that there is an \u201cunbridgeable distance between transgendered [sic] individuals…and natural men<\/a> or women<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Larry Arnn: Conservative Author<\/strong>
— Argued<\/a> that \u201cthe left has convinced people to ignore the moral foundations of the U.S. Constitution to embrace that same-sex<\/a> marriage is real (legal) marriage thus overturning by judicial activism hundreds of anti-sodomy laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kellyanne Conway: Counselor to the President<\/strong>
— Referred to<\/a>\u00a0a PBS kids’ show that featured lesbian<\/a> parents as one of the “outside, external influences corrupting [kids’] minds and their bodies,\u201d and called<\/a> marriage equality rulings an attempt to “redefine” family to be “whatever feels cool.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dr. Richard Lee: Founding Pastor of First Redeemer Church<\/strong>
— Signed onto an extreme statement<\/a> insisting the Supreme Court had no authority to issue a marriage equality decision.<\/p>\n

Pastor Dan Cummins: Founding Pastor of Bridlewood Church<\/strong>
— After the Supreme Court\u2019s 2013 DOMA ruling, penned over-the-top column<\/a> calling on anti-LGBTQ minded \u201chostages\u201d in what he called \u201cthe gay<\/a> zones\u201d of America to flee to \u201cfree zones\u201d and become \u201cforearmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ken Cuccinelli: Former Republican Attorney General of Virginia<\/strong>
— Believed<\/a> \u201chomosexual acts\u201d are \u201cintrinsically wrong\u201d and against \u201cnatural law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pastor Jason Jimenez: Founder of Stand Strong Ministries<\/strong>
— Major opponent<\/a> of Charlotte nondiscrimination ordinance, accusing supporters of being \u201ca bully\u201d; coauthored<\/a> a book wherein gay<\/a> people are framed as \u201censlaved in homosexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Metaxas:<\/strong> Conservative Author<\/strong>
— Extremely anti-LGBT commentator; called<\/a> homosexuality a \u201cdisease,\u201d and argued<\/a> that same-sex<\/a> parents endanger their children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Craig DeRoche: Former Member of the Michigan House of Representatives<\/strong>
— Allegedly blocked<\/a> an anti-bullying bill because of its protection of LGBTQ students.<\/p>\n

Reverend Gene Mills: Louisiana Family Forum<\/strong>
— One of the most notoriously anti-LGBTQ activists in the state of Louisiana. He once\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that when LGBTQ people feel discriminated against it is really just inner “shame and guilt” they fell surrounding their “ultimate rebellion against God.”<\/p>\n

Pat Boone: Musician and Conservative Commentator <\/strong>
— Aggressively anti-LGBTQ for decades. Argued<\/a> that the Boy Scouts of America\u2019s end of its ban on adult gay<\/a> members would \u201cinevitably bring about the collapse and demise of Scouting itself\u201d and endanger America.<\/p>\n

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