{"id":84499,"date":"2019-04-16T16:25:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/gop-presidential-candidate-william-welds-pro-lgbtq-record-isolates-donald-trump-as-lone-anti-lgbtq-candidate\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:25:41","slug":"gop-presidential-candidate-william-welds-pro-lgbtq-record-isolates-donald-trump-as-lone-anti-lgbtq-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/gop-presidential-candidate-william-welds-pro-lgbtq-record-isolates-donald-trump-as-lone-anti-lgbtq-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Presidential Candidate William Weld\u2019s Pro-LGBTQ Record Isolates Donald Trump as Lone Anti-LGBTQ Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOP Presidential Candidate William Weld\u2019s Pro-LGBTQ Record Isolates Donald Trump as Lone Anti-LGBTQ Candidate<\/b><\/p>\n

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GLAAD CEO: \u201cWeld can help usher in a new wave of acceptance for a political party that has been dominated by politicians who have fought against hard-won progress made by the LGBTQ community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

President Trump becomes only nominee from a major political party to hold an anti-LGBTQ record<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 GLAAD, the largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released the following backgrounder to the national media highlighting the pro-LGBTQ record of former Massachusetts Governor William Weld just after he announced his 2020 presidential campaign. Weld\u2019s announcement now marks the first credible primary challenger to President Donald Trump, the most anti-LGBTQ United States President in recent memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weld\u2019s 2020 entry now makes President Donald Trump the only elected leader from a major political party to be fully anti-LGBTQ, lightning-speed progress from just a decade ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernor William Weld represents what is needed and has been missing within the Republican Party: a campaign message about acceptance for all marginalized communities, including LGBTQ people,\u201d\u00a0said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD<\/strong>. \u201cAnti-LGBTQ activists have hijacked the Republican Party for far too long, and it\u2019s past time that voices like Governor Weld\u2019s enter the dialogue. Weld can help usher in a new wave of acceptance for a political party that has been dominated by politicians who have fought against hard-won progress made by the LGBTQ community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration has issued more than 100 attacks against LGBTQ Americans in policy or rhetoric since 2017. To see the entire list of attacks on Trump\u2019s attacks on LGBTQ Americans and for more information on GLAAD\u2019s Trump Accountability Project, go to\u00a0www.glaad.org\/trump<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: William Weld\u2019s Pro-LGBTQ Record<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Touted<\/a>\u00a0his early leadership on LGBTQ rights: \u201cIn office, in my case, even though I was then a Republican and not a Libertarian, I was way out there by myself on gay<\/a> and lesbian<\/a> rights, starting my first month in office, in January 1991. And for 10 years, no one followed suit. I appointed the woman<\/a> who wrote the decision holding equality of marriage as constitutionally compelled, which led to the Supreme Court case holding that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Said<\/a>\u00a0\u201cmarriage equality is dictated by the due process clause and equal protection clause.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Created<\/a>\u00a0the Governor\u2019s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Has delivered<\/a>\u00a0homilies at multiple same-sex<\/a> weddings, as early as 2004. \u201cHe could never ever understand why or how anyone could care that I was gay<\/a>,\u201d remembers [his former college roomate], who had Weld give the homily at his June 2004 wedding to Kevin Smith, a former Weld chief of staff. \u201cAnd he could never understand how it was anyone else\u2019s business but my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Signed<\/a>\u00a0an amicus brief calling on the Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Supported<\/a>\u00a0the Obama administration\u2019s guidance on trans<\/a> bathroom access: \u201cIf bathroom access for transgender people rises to the status of a right that needs protection, then why not?\u201d<\/p>\n

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