In his first year in office, Trump's administration took aim at transgender people serving in the military and LGBTQ antidiscrimination protections. Trump's own record on LGBTQ rights isn't stellar, either. A law banning 'gay propaganda' in Russia was followed by five years of drastic increases in hate crimes against LGBTQ individuals, according to research from a Russian nongovernmental organization cited by Reuters.
Pro-LGBTQ activists in Russia sometimes have to use sneaky means to get their messages across, as they did at the 2018 World Cup with a rainbow's array of jersey colors.
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