![]() ![]() In January 1980, a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal ![]() Mosettig discusses how this matters to the LGBT community around the world. Other acts, however, are more serious: stripping protections in federal regulations and trying to halt transgender enlistment in the military. In some ways, Trump’s actions are superficial: not inviting gay media to the White House Christmas party for the press. ![]() Trump was previously as agnostic on LGBT matters as he was on anything having to do with religion now, he has bought into this anti-LGBT agenda. Key in that core is the religious right, whose agenda includes rolling back gains in gay rights. Now the media are fighting back and some, including The New York Times and the Washington Post, are doing better journalism as a result.Īlso unlike previous American presidents who have tried to expand beyond their core supporters, Trump relies increasingly upon his narrow base. ![]() Donald Trump openly mobilises his supporters to join in his attack on the media. The United States has – for the first time in history – a president who does not merely dislike and criticise the media, but one who actively fights it. ![]()
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