I ' m reaaaally tired of people parroting that video of him saying he ' ll protect LGBT Americans . I don ' t think people really see what he did there , and how big it was . It was an opportunistic remark that he dropped at some press conference directly after the Orlando shooting , and he said it with the intent of framing the attack as terrorism rather than a domestic hate crime . It was terrorism . It was also a hate crime . I know Obama tried to play it off as a gun control issue but maybe you should take the ISIL fighter at his word when he swore fealty to the Islamic State , who by the way kill anyone they believe to be a homosexual . That ' s not pandering , that ' s not fearmongering , that ' s a literal fact . If you don ' t believe me go on Liveleak and watch any of the hundreds of Islamic State execution films where they declare the accused to be a homosexual before butchering them in a variety of horrific ways . That is the nonPC , nonsafespace , cold reality of Islamic Extremism , a term which Obama to this day refuses to utter . Back to the original point , the biggest resistance to gay equality in this country is from the far Right , for better or worse , many of those people had an attraction to Trump . Trump talked to those people , and with single speech caused a paradigm shift where the biggest resistance to gay rights began parroting that we need to help protect our gay neighbors and countrymen , that an attack against our gay community is an attack on America , that America ' s gay community is a vulnerable group which needs compassion and support . The fucking far right has been shouting for over a year now that an attack on gays is an attack on America . Think about that for a moment . Really think about it . Mull it over . Let it actually sink in how he ' s permanently since this was more than a year ago and it ' s going strong changed the hearts and minds of millions of Americans , how he brought one of his most trusted avisors an openly gay technocrat into the Republican convention as a speaker to the sound of a thunderous applause and multiple standing ovations . Let it sink in that he took one of the strongest antigay voices in the GOP and made him BEND THE KNEE into an Administration who ' s official stance is that Gay Marriage is set in stone , those asshole Bakers need to make the damn cake , and Caitlyn Jenner can use whatever bathroom she wants . He has single handedly ended homophobia as a platform of the Republican party at the national level . That ' s a fuckton of social progress for someone who ' s only been president elect for 2 weeks , you can thank him now .