LGBTQ advocates respond to Donald Trump’s 1995 federal income taxes

Records obtained by The New York Times show Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years. Reacting to these reports, Russell Roybal, deputy executive director, National LGBTQ…

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Trump expands his team of ‘anti-LGBT’ advisers as he receives endorsement from Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz finally announced his endorsement of Donald Trump late Friday in a Facebook post writing, “After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.” “I am greatly honored by the endorsement of Senator Cruz,”…

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Donald Trump to speak at annual anti-LGBT Values Voter Summit

Donald Trump is slated to join conservative activists and a number of GOP elected officials at next weekend’s Values Voter Summit, the annual Washington, D.C., event sponsored by the Family Research Council and a number of other anti-LGBT hate groups. Right Wing Watch reports that the GOP nominee has been busy recruiting Religious Right leaders, often while waving…

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Human rights advocates brand Trump’s immigration policy ‘disgusting, terrible, inhumane and completely unfair’

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered his long-awaited speech on immigration yesterday in Phoenix, Ariz. Hard on the heels of his meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Trump doubled down on his harsh immigration rhetoric vowing “no amnesty” for undocumented migrants living in the United States and promising to build a “beautiful” and “impenetrable”…

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HRC: Trump’s courting of hate movement dangerous to LGBTQ people

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released the following statement ahead of Hillary Clinton’s speech addressing Donald Trump’s campaign of prejudice, paranoia and bigotry. “Donald Trump has built an entire campaign based on division, fear and undermining equality,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “Trump has threatened to undo crucial…

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Trump’s first general election ad steeped in anti-immigrant rhetoric and imagery

https://youtu.be/3mKzYPt0Bu4 Friday, Donald Trump’s campaign aired its first general election ad. The ad which depicts a dystopian and bleak image of the United States will run through Aug. 29 in key battleground states like Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and is steeped in anti-immigrant rhetoric and imagery. The ad even cites Center for Immigration…

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Letters

Megalomania Dear Editor, Thanks for your (publisher’s) message on Donald Trump. You noted that a sign of his character is “… how much he uses the word ‘I.’” There is another narcissist much closer to home in the person of Nicole who probably has the same small hands. Last issue’s column total was 17 “I”s….

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LGBTQ Advocates reject Trump’s ‘more police’ call as ‘out of touch’

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund is rejecting Donald Trump’s call for “more police” in black neighborhoods as being “out of touch with reality and the reality of black lives.” Tuesday in West Bend, Wis. Trump called for more police in America’s inner cities, arguing that Democratic policies have failed minority communities and…

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