During the presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump was generous with his bigotry. But gay and lesbian Americans seemed largely to escape his scapegoating, despite the Republican Party's entrenched homophobia. “The LGBT community, the gay community, the lesbian community—they are so much in favor of what I've been saying,” Trump said at a June campaign rally in Atlanta.
Trump's Transition Team Is All Tied Up With Anti-Gay Pseudoscience
The Family Research Council has close ties to Trump's transition team and cabinet appointees. Its bad science could lead to worse policies.
Retired General William Boykin (L), and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, (R), attend a town hall meeting with Donald Trump on October 3, 2016, in Herndon, VA.Evan Vucci/AP
