Clay Aiken to be on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” starring same-sex marriage foe Donald Trump
I’m not saying I’d ever seen more than a handful of episodes of Celebrity Apprentice over the years but I completely boycotted the show anyway after hostDonald Trump decided to become anti-gay marriage when he was caught up in running for president.
Frankly, I don’t see how any gay person can agree to be on the show with Trump but reportedly, Clay Aiken is among the celebrities who will be taking part. I hope Clay get the chance, and takes the chance, to question Trump about this stance against LGBT equality.
I’m always extra rankled when someone who has been married three times does not believe that same-sex couples deserve that same right.
High-profile straight ally Cyndi Lauper had just finished appearing on Celebrity Apprentice to benefit her True Colors Fund – which benefits LGBT advocacy groups and works to raise awareness of LGBT issues – when The Donald said on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor about same-sex marriage: “I just don’t feel good about it, I don’t feel right about it.”
Miss Lauper told me at an April event that she found his remarks very hurtful: “We make strides and then they take it away,” she said sadly. ”I went on Trump, he embraced me and my charity and then he turned around and nullified everything. It broke me heart. I couldn’t believe it. It hurt my feelings so much.”
Cyndi said it appeared that Trump, who had been getting a lot of attention as a possible Republican candidate for president, was doing what others in the party have done in the past.
“They use the gay community, the LGBT community to distract everybody and to say the gays this and that and it’s really a crock,” she said. “A lot of people who say things like that have people in their organization who are from the community who are the people who help make them successful.”
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