He then carried it a gentlemans club a few blocks away where he doused it with lighter fluid and lit it on fire. Adolfo Martinez, 30, saw the flag at the Church of Christ in Ames and ripped it down. At the Republican National Convention, he implicitly endorsed an anti-gay GOP platform. An Iowa man who burned an LBGTQ flying at a church was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The six colours (originally eight, but removed due to.
It was developed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 and has been used since then. Trump has hinted at support for letting businesses and individuals discriminate against LGBT people, as blogger Andy Towle notes. Yes, the Gay Pride Flag is a rainbow coloured flag with six colours. (For the record, his opponent, Hillary Clinton, is far more specific about her support for LGBT people, frequently addresses LGBT groups, and marched in New York City’s Pride earlier this year.)īut while these symbols are important, they don’t make up for the other ways that Trump denigrates the dignity of LGBT people.įirst there’s his zeal for restricting LGBT rights-letting states ban transgender people from using the bathroom of their gender identity, opposing the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, his promise to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will reverse the ruling, or his choice of one of America’s most rabidly anti-gay politicians as his vice president.
And he should be applauded for being the first GOP nominee to address LGBT people in his speeches. Certainly, Trump deserves credit for breaking symbolic barriers of associating himself with the LGBT flag.