Less than a year later, Trump announced a ban on transgender Americans from serving in the military.

Almost immediately after his inauguration in January 2017 (when Mike Pence, a conservative Christian who has expressed support for conversion therapy, was also sworn into office), mentions of many social issues, including a page dedicated to LGBTQIA rights, were removed from, which activists, who had at long last achieved marriage equality under Barack Obama, took as an omen of things to come. New York City Pride took place on Sunday, in the spirit of queer celebration-and with a sense of looking to the future, as midterm elections finally loom two years after Donald Trump was elected to the presidency.