Trump Administration’s Official Message to LGBTQ+ People: FOAD

Trump Administration’s Official Message to LGBTQ+ People: FOAD

Trigger warning: This column mentions suicide. If you were a presidential administration and you wanted to communicate to LGBTQ+ people that you did not care about their lives and would, in fact, prefer it if they were dead, you’d be hard pressed to beat the Trump Administration. I have never in my life seen such a sustained and cruel attack on LGBTQ+ people, and I lived through the George H.W. Bush marriage amendment days where my worth as a hu…