Michelangelo Signorile

2 weeks ago | signorile.com | Michelangelo Signorile

Donald Trump is attempting to eviscerate queer rights more brazenly than in his first term, after which we saw Joe Biden able to reverse most of Trump’s most dangerous presidential actions. Trump now has disappeared the word “gay” and “transgender" from many government websites, purged LGBTQ history and research data in government databases, and erased transgender people from the Park Service’s National Stonewall Monument website.

2 weeks ago | signorile.com | Michelangelo Signorile

For months we’ve watched alarming images on televisionand on social media of masked federal agents snatching people off the streets or showing up at homes, offices or shops to arrest people, all part of Donald Trump’s mass deportation purge. In a country in which local and state police wear a nameplate, have a badge and often are equipped with body cams—all of which identifies them and records their actions—federal agents under Trump, as The Bulwark’s Jonathan V.

2 weeks ago | signorile.com | Michelangelo Signorile

What Donald Trump has done to decades of research in treatment and prevention of HIV has been staggering, cutting both international and domestic programs that have made sure, through Republican and Democrati administrations—including Trump’s first one—that people receive life-saving drugs. And now he is dismantling several critical studies to create a groundbreaking vaccine against HIV.

3 weeks ago | signorile.com | Michelangelo Signorile

Wall Street traders, who are almost feral in sniffing out patterns in which to make money, are using the term “the TACO trade”— which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out—regarding Trump threatening tariffs, sending the markets plummeting, only to back down later, causing markets to rise. Trump became agitated yesterday in the Oval Office when a reporter asked him about TACO .

3 weeks ago | signorile.com | Michelangelo Signorile

The Trump administration has been relentless—merciless—in its attacks on America’s oldest and most prestigious university, continually stripping Harvard of funding, trying to force it to get in line. The goal is to control the university and its curriculum, make no mistake. And Harvard is fighting back hard, with lawsuits and defiant words from its president, its faculty, and its students.