The LGBT advocacy organization GLAAD, touting an online poll it claims shows a stunning 20 percent of American millennials aged 18-34 “identify as LGBTQ,” is warning on its website that the Trump administration “is erasing the LGBTQ community from the USA.” The organization said its third annual Accelerating Acceptance report also noted an increase in acceptance of LGBTQ lifestyles in 2015,
citing that year’s controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage. But the organization lamented that such headway was not as evident in 2016, when progress “slowed.” Activists such as Dan Avery at LGBT entertainment website NewNowNext praised the report, hailing it as a harbinger of “a new openness about sexual orientation and gender identity.” READ MORE
