Stonewall Democrats Group Re-Forms Ahead Of Trump

Politico reports:

It’s been a dozen years since the Stonewall Democrats, a once-prominent LGBTQ+ rights group, went defunct. But now, on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a new coalition of state-level advocacy groups is reestablishing a national presence to gird against the incoming president and a Republican-controlled Congress.

The group, the National Federation of Stonewall Democrats, comes together at a fraught time for movement, amid recriminations from within the Democratic Party that its focus on transgender rights harmed Democrats in November.

Those behind the new organization, whose establishment was shared first with POLITICO, said they plan to press congressional Democrats to oppose what they fear will be an onslaught of bills and executive actions targeting their communities — even though such efforts are likely to have a limited impact given that the party is out of power in both chambers.

Read the full article. I reported on the then-pending dissolution of Stonewall Democrats back in 2013. The national group is not to be confused with the NYC-based Stonewall Democratic Club, which is still active.

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