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Though Clinton, unlike Trump, backs same-sex marriage rights, she did not do so until 2013, about two years after that position started garnering majority support in public opinion polls. "Donald Trump was pro-gay long before it was politically trendy - unlike Hillary Clinton," Barron said. In February, Trump predicted that the country would see further "forward motion" on LGBTQ rights under his presidency. Trump is also on the record in support of adding sexual orientation as a protected class under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in opposition to North Carolina's anti-LGBTQ law and the military's erstwhile "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. The background: Before he was palling around with Falwell and Pat Robertson, Trump was attending gay entertainer Elton John's wedding ("If two people dig each other, they dig each other," the plainspoken businessman said at the time), supporting AIDS charities and flying an openly gay Trump Organization executive and his partner on his jet for weekend trips. But while early polling shows Clinton a lock to win gay voters, the billionaire's boosters in the community cheer his history of supporting gay rights, his business acumen and his brash, thoroughly unapologetic persona. That may seem difficult to square with Trump's support from evangelical leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr., his avowed opposition to same-sex marriage and his promise to appoint Supreme Court justices in the mold of the late archconservative Antonin Scalia. "Donald Trump is the most pro-gay Republican nominee ever," Chris Barron, the former national political director of the Log Cabin Republicans and a co-founder of the now-defunct group GOProud, said in an interview. Read more: What Explains the LGBT Divide Between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders As he vaulted past his rivals to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump was fueled by disproportionate support among voters who were angry, white, male and working class - hardly the demographic one is likely to find at the Folsom Street Fair or snatching up tickets to see Lady Gaga.īut among the Trump Train's passengers is a fiercely committed corps of gay supporters, enamored of the brash billionaire's anti-establishment message and unimpressed by likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who remains the heavy favorite among LGBTQ voters.