The ‘American Dream’ vs. The ‘American Reality’: The Fight for Civil Rights – The LGBTQ+ Community

by | 9th August 2020 | Featured, Human Rights, Politics

In her second piece covering the ’The American Dream vs The American Reality’, the author explores the continued fight the US LGBTQ+ community face for basic rights and equal treatment. In spite of the progress made under the Obama administration, in her words ‘Trump’s transphobic, homophobic and sexist views manifest through legally binding actions to disadvantage LGBTQ+ individuals, contradicting the sense of equality declared through the American Dream ethos’.