Trump: Year One

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Or you could choose to believe that Trump is Hitler:

As Walter Olson wrote, “Organized gay and anti-gay groups keep their respective bases in a constant state of alarm with crisis talk.” Indeed.

6 Comments for “Trump: Year One”

  1. posted by Lori Heine on

    I don’t see how having endorsed a senatorial candidate who wants us dead can be considered “centrist.” But of course I may be missing something.

  2. posted by Tom Scharbach on

    Last year about this time, I wrote that I did not expect the Trump administration to do anything to advance “equal means equal”, and that the only question in my mind was the extent of damage that the Trump administration would do to our gains over the last decade.

    The Trump admininstration has, as predicted, done nothing to advance LGBT rights. Not a single thing.

    On the damage side of the equation, Olson characterizes the damage as “moderate” to date, and I guess that he is right, in the sense that the Trump admininistration did not do nearly as much damage as it could have done, and did less damage than a lot of gays and lesbians feared that it would do.

    Nonetheless, the record is dismal, and the fact that the best that Olson can do in his “moderate” squib is point out that things are not nearly as bad as they could have been is an indication of how dismal that record actually is.

    It has been 177 days (July 26, 2017) since IGF had a post about President Trump. I don’t think much of President Trump, but he is not “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”.

  3. posted by Tom Scharbach on

    We’ve always been fighters – that is our legacy. Everything that our communities have achieved in the course of our history, we have fought for, and this time will be no different.

    I don’t understand what you find so troubling about this idea.

    It seems to me that it is true, in general, going back to the days of Stonewall. Gays and lesbians have made the gains we’ve made over the last 50 years — from stopping the cops from raiding our bars and gathering places to marriage equality — because we stood up and fought for them.

    I can’t think of a gain we’ve made that was handed to us on a silver platter.

    I don’t know. Maybe homocons had a difference experience than those of us on the left/liberal side of LGBT history. Maybe they didn’t fight for equality.

    • posted by Doug on

      The homocons still aren’t fighting for equality. They are siding with evangelicals who want religious discrimination. They didn’t fight for marriage equality either, they wanted ‘separate but equal’. The LRC still endorses candidates that don’t support LGBT.

    • posted by Tom Scharbach on

      I try not to let my anger at homocons show too often, but homocons are the welfare queens of the gay rights movement — didn’t do much work, enjoy the fruits of our labor as they cluster in the blue enclaves, and complain endlessly about how they are oppressed and misunderstood.

  4. posted by Tom Scharbach on

    Reality check.

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