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Melania Trump to headline Log Cabin Republican Gala, get award

  • by Mike Andrew, SGN Staff Writer
  • Friday September 17, 2021
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Photo by Andrew Harnik / AP
Photo by Andrew Harnik / AP

The Log Cabin Republicans — the homocon LGBT group — announced September 14 that Melania Trump would headline their annual Spirit of Lincoln gala and receive the group's Spirit of Lincoln award.

According to the LCR, the award is given to "honor those who exemplify a commitment to enhancing personal freedom, encouraging individual responsibility, and ensuring equality under the law for all Americans."

This year the event will be held at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

In their press release announcing the gala, the LCR hit new lows in their now customary toadying to Trump.

"During and after her time in office, First Lady Melania Trump has proven time and again her leadership" on equality issues, it said.

"Moreover, in the heat of the presidential election last year, the First Lady passionately reiterated her husband's commitment to LGBT Americans, supported diversity of thought, and made clear that we are welcome members of the Republican Party, a historic moment not just for LGBT conservatives but for the history of the GOP."

Despite the LCR's press release puffery, SGN readers will remember many highlights of Donald Trump's "commitment to LGBT Americans":

  • Rescinding Obama-era guidance to protect the civil rights of Transgender children in schools
  • Calling for a ban on Transgender service members in the armed forces, including kicking out existing Trans people effectively and proudly serving their country
  • Rescinding an Obama-era policy that protects Transgender workers, and reversing an Obama-era rule banning health care discrimination against Transgender people
  • Prioritizing the rights of religious communities over the rights of LGBT people
  • Rejecting a rule proposed by the Obama administration requiring "that same-sex spouses are recognized and afforded equal rights in certain Medicare and Medicaid-participating facilities"
  • Appointing virulently anti-LGBT Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court, and flooding the federal courts with equally anti-LGBT judges
  • Endorsing several of the most anti-LGBT candidates in US history, including Judge Roy Moore in Alabama

    According to the Washington Blade, Melania Trump has collaborated with the LCR on many occasions. During the 2020 election, she appeared in a video for Outspoken, the media arm of the LCR, saying "nothing could be further from the truth" that her husband is against LGBTQ people.