Posted on 01/25/2017 5:14:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ABC has had to re-schedule its LGBT miniseries When We Rise to make room for President Donald Trump. File this under “Ironic.”
Earlier this month, ABC announced it would schedule its groundbreaking miniseries across four consecutive nights, for maximum impact: February 27-March 2, from 9-11 PM each night.
But yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced at a news conference at the Capitol that he had invited President Donald Trump to address a joint session of Congress on February 28 (First addresses by a newly elected POTUS to the joint session of Congress are not officially called State of the Union Addresses). SOTU addresses typically take place at 9 PM because POTUS’s are no dummies about HUT levels – especially not this TV-savvy one.
ABC announced this afternoon that, owing to ABC News’ special report, President Donald Trump’s Address to Congress, the When We Rise will air as planned on Monday, February 27, will take a break the next night while Trump speaks, and resume broadcasting two hours a night, Wednesday through Friday, March 1-3, from 9-11 PM.
When We Rise chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women, who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today. It stars Guy Pearce as LGBT activist Cleve Jones, Mary-Louise Parker as women’s rights leader Roma Guy, Rachel Griffiths as her wife, social justice activist Diane, Michael K. Williams as African American community organizer Ken Jones and Ivory Aquino as transgender activist Cecelia Chung.
At the recently wrapped TCA, When We Rise creator Dustin Lance Black told a dubious ballroom of TV critics and reporters, “If Donald Trump actually watches the show, he might like the show.”
“I think a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump will love this show,” he continued. “I don’t see this show as trying to speak to only half of the country — I didn’t write the show for half the country.”
I am opposed to queers.
WINNING!
How ‘diverse’ can they be when they stastistically all reside within the same 2% sliver of the population?
I am sure we will receive a full report. I hope The State of The Union Address is a trip to the woodshed for a lot of folks who need it.
Maybe I will plan a SOTU viewing party!
Gee, when I was a kid the President preempted Wild Kingdom.
Homos don’t even register on my dilligaf meter. It’s the islamo filth and their filthy offspring that needs eliminated.
Blah blah self-important propagandist claptrap.
Just like The Day After. TV trying to “educate” people - I wonder how “thoughtful” and “courageous” a study on Christians who stood up to Obama’s excesses would be received by these, so-called, intelligentsia...
It’s probably considered an impeachable offense.
So what.
BO displaced A Charlie Brown Christmas with one of his stupid, worthless speeches.
More winning! I aint noways tard yet
Who the hell watches this show? I imagine its ratings must be very low. Is it purely done for ideological purposes?
Winning!
OF COURSE it is being done for (mostly) ideological reasons, but also for an opportunity for advertisers to tap into a specific market.
I have no intention of ever watching ABC.
Russert asked Trump about gay marriage. Trump didn't want to comment on it, but said he has no problem with gays in the military.
He explained, "I've lived in New York City and Manhattan all my life, okay? So my views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa."
When Russert asked Trump about abortion, he said he's "pro-choice in every respect" and again cited his New York background, which he said has a "different attitude" from most of the country
http://www.mediaite.com/online/heres-the-1999-donald-trump-new-york-values-interview-cruz-has-been-talking-about/
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Trump told CBN's "The Brody File" [in April 2011] that gay people were "tremendous" and that "there can be no discrimination against gays."
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-2016s-most-lgbt-friendly-republican
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Aug 2015
"It's not the first time Trump has taken a pro-LGBT stance. As far back as 2000, Trump was advocating the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation - something the currently-pending Equality Act would basically do if lawmakers on Capitol Hill ever decided to pass it.
"Amending the Civil Rights Act would grant the same protection to gay people that we give to other Americans - it’s only fair," Trump told The Advocate in February, 2000.
In the same interview, Trump said he favored "a very strong domestic-partnership law" that guaranteed same-sex couples equal legal rights as married, heterosexual couples.
Trump also said he believed Don't Ask, Don't Tell - the military's then-ban on openly gay service members - had "clearly failed."
Trump's spokesperson, Hope Hicks, did not immediately respond to msnbc's request for comment on where the presidential candidate stood on the Equality Act. But his longstanding support for ending discrimination against gay people has been well documented. ..."
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-2016s-most-lgbt-friendly-republican
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Donald Trump said forward progress on LGBT right would happen on his administration.
In contrast to other recent remarks, Donald Trump said on Thursday progress on gay rights would continue under his administration and cast himself as a uniter of people regardless of their views on the issue.
Trump made the remarks in New Hampshire just days before the state’s primary in an interview with New England Cable News’s Sue O’Connell, who’s also publisher of the Boston-based LGBT newspaper Bay Windows.
O’Connell, a lesbian, asked Trump if the country can look for more “forward motion” on gay and lesbian rights if he’s elected to the White House.
“Well, you can,” Trump answered.”
And look, again, we’re going to bring people together, and that's your thing and other people have their thing. We have to bring all people together and if we don’t we’re not going to have a country anymore.”
It’s hard to say what kind of forward progress would happen on LGBT rights under a Trump administration.
In a 2000 interview with The Advocate, Trump said he supports amending federal civil rights law to include sexual orientation. Although Trump has said in this election cycle companies shouldn’t fire people for being gay, but hasn’t said whether he still supports amending federal law to achieve that goal or whether he would also support protections for transgender people.
Meanwhile, Trump has signaled qualified support for the First Amendment Defense Act, federal religious freedom legislation seen to enable to anti-LGBT discrimination. An opponent of same-sex marriage, Trump said on Sunday he would consider appointing justices to the Supreme Court who would reverse the ruling in favor of marriage equality.
Gregory Angelo, president of Log Cabin Republicans, said the remarks reveal a glimmer of hope Trump would be a friend to LGBT people in the White House.
“As I’ve long said, putting all else aside — and with Donald Trump, that can, at times, be a herculean task — there is a legitimate case to be made that Donald Trump would be an ally to the LGBT community as President of the United States,” Angelo said. “Trump confirmed that today.”
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/02/05/trump-expects-forward-motion-on-gay-rights-as-president/
You’re opposed to their lifestyle.
A gay guy that doesn’t act on it has just as much right to Heaven as your or me.
And with the sins I’ve got under my belt, maybe more.
Yes, he did!
Saw this being HYPED in you tube a couple months ago.
DISNEY is mad in love with promoting homosexual TV. I hope it gets destroyed in the ratings.
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