How Peter Thiel Sold Out LGBTQ People For The Spotlight

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, left, speaks while Peter Thiel, billionaire co-founder of PayPal Inc. and a member of Donald Trumps transition team, listens during a meeting with technology leaders at Trump Tower in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. Technology industry leaders met with Trump seeking to persuade a man whose presidential bid many of them opposed to avoid policies they believe would hurt their companies. Im here to help you folks do well, Trump told the executives as the meeting began. Photographer: Albin Lohr-Jones/Pool via Bloomberg

“I think Trump is very good on gay rights,” gay billionaire and major Trump supporter Peter Thiel told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd back in January, at the start of the Trump presidency. “I don’t think he will reverse anything. I would obviously be concerned if I thought otherwise.”