Donald Trump Is Proving How Mortally Dangerous He Is To LGBT Equality

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4. That's why he's been a focus of protests by LGBT groups going back to the 80's..

Trump received the first-ever tax abatement for a commercial developer for his Grand Hyatt Hotel Project, near Grand Central Station. Like other Trump projects such as Trump Plaza at Third Avenue and 61st Street, the huge, mirrored Trump Tower loomed over its smaller neighbors on Fifth Avenue and featured an extravagant pink marble atrium with a $1 million waterfall. The development, with its luxury retail stores on the ground floor, was aimed at what Trump called the “world’s best people,” with apartments ranging in price from $550,000 to $10 million and doormen dressed like Buckingham Palace guards.

Recognizing Trump as a key symbol of the privatization of New York that contributed to the rapid increase in economic inequality in the 1980s, ACT UP continued to target him. The Housing Committee returned to Trump Tower on February 11, 1989, for the “Soup Kitchen Rally,” in which a coalition of city groups protested the city’s failure to address homelessness, and again on Halloween 1989, when ACT UP members passed out candy, condoms, and information about AIDS and homelessness.
http://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-majority-of-people-dying-of-aids-were-people-of-color-aids-activism-rising-inequality


Much more of great interest at the link, actually.