Tallahassee Mayor Nixes LGBTQ+ Advisory Council Meeting During Pride Month
The Democratic mayor has been slammed by local activists for canceling putting off the meeting.
June 8, 2023
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The Democratic mayor has been slammed by local activists for canceling putting off the meeting.
The American Family Association still claims their president was appointed to Trump's Faith Advisory Council.
The council is already a who's who of anti-LGBTQ leaders, but Wildmon's American Family Association is one of the most hateful groups in the nation.
Gabriel Maldonado, a former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, spoke about Trump's efforts to decimate the group.
Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS have quit and penned a letter saying the president "doesn't care" about people with the disease.
Dr. R. Scott Hitt, an AIDS specialist and the first openly gay person to head a presidential advisory board, has died. He was 49. Hitt died Thursday of colon cancer at his home in West Hollywood, according to John Duran, the city's mayor and a longtime friend. Hitt was chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS during President Clinton's administration in the 1990s.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced Tuesday that it would donate $250,000 to the No on Proposition 8 campaign, the Los Angeles Times reports. Company officials also indicated they would attempt to garner support from other companies to defeat the antigay measure by assembling a business advisory council on the matter. Proposition 8 would amend the state's constitution to prohibit marriage between same-sex couples.
The group, which will advise Cruz on policy, includes hate group leader Tony Perkins, the Benham brothers, and more.
Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association boasts of receiving a letter from the company's CEO about its giving policy that actually went to hundreds.
The Republican presidential nominee has added his former rival as an advisor to his campaign.
"We'll keep you posted" is all Sarah Huckabee Sanders had to say about the council, whose members were dismissed by Trump over the holidays.