NOW: LGBT Activist Group Act UP Holding Huge Anti-Trump Protest at Trump Tower NYC (Photos, Video)

‘People We Love, Under Attack! What Do We Do? Act Up, Fight Back!’ 

Donald Trump is the target of a huge protest outside Trump Tower on New York City’s Fifth Avenue right now, organized by the decades-old LGBT activist group Act UP. “Shame, shame, not in our name,” the protestors are chanting, in response to the GOP presumptive nominee’s use of the LGBTQ community in the days following the anti-gay hate crime mass shooting terror attack in Orlando.

Trump last week both claimed to be the best candidate for the LGBT community, and tried to divide LGBT people and Muslims, after the nation’s deadliest terror attack since 9/11.

CNN’s Jim Acosta on Twitter said it’s the biggest anti-Trump protest he’s seen:

Here’s video of the protestors, which, according to a press release sent to NCRM, includes Act UP NY and “leaders from Muslim, Latinx and LGBTQ organizations.”

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Right now, activists have begun to stage a “die in.”

Via Act UP’s press release:

“Just over a week after the slaughter of dozens of LGBTQ people at Pulse in Orlando, Donald Trump is seeking the support and the endorsement of groups  who have — for decades — advocated hatred, discrimination, and violence against our community,” said James Krellenstein, a member of ACT UP NY. “By continuing to embrace, rather than condemn these hate groups, Donald Trump and the Republican Party are spitting on the victims of the Orlando Massacre.”

Instead of advocating for policies that would actually improve the safety, health, civil rights, and livelihood of all communities, Trump has chosen to meet and seek the support of religious extremists who have supported and defended legislation such as Uganda’s infamous “Kill the Gays” bill. All the while, he uses the recent violence against the LGBTQ community as an excuse to advocate for discrimination against American Muslims.

“The LGBTQ community is a rainbow coalition of races and religious beliefs. While we stand united against any kind of religious bigotry, we will not stand silent while our Muslim LGBTQ brothers and sisters continue to be targets of hate speech,” said Tom Blake, another member of ACT UP NY.

 

 

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