The LGBTQ community backs Joe Biden, according to a GLAAD poll

By Dan Avery - NBC News

With the presidential election a month away,

According to

, a GLAAD (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and

Advocacy Alliance

released on October 1, only 17% of those surveyed said they supported President Donald Trump.

5% said they plan to endorse another candidate and 2% remain undecided.

The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percent.

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The poll, conducted by Pathfinder Opinion Research from September 21-25, indicated that

Of that number, 92% said they would vote "definitely or probably" in the presidential election, and more than 80% said they now had more reasons to vote than in any other recent election.

According to data from the UCLA Williams Institute released last November, one in five Americans in the LGBTQ community was not registered to vote.

But Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and CEO of GLAAD, says that this year likely voter registration increased.

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"LGBTQ voters are poised to make a decisive difference in this election year," Ellis said in a statement.

.

We cannot stay out of this, our lives are at stake ”.

In a memo to GLAAD, Pathfinder confirmed that LGBTQ voters "represent a highly motivated and vital bloc of Democratic voters."

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 Biden delivered a speech to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on September 24, when he said that LGBTQ Americans deserved "a partner in the White House."

“

, support LGBTQ workers, win full rights for transgender Americans, renew our commitment to ending the HIV epidemic by 2025 [and ] we will promote LGBT rights around the world, not just at home, ”Biden said.

The Equality Law is a legislative project so that the anti-discrimination protection of the Civil Rights Law also applies according to sexual orientation or gender identity.

Currently in several states it is still possible to refuse to rent a home to someone gay, for example.

The Equality Act was approved by the House of Representatives since 2019, but has not been discussed in the Senate.

The results of the new GLAAD report with Pathfinder are similar to exit polls from the 2016 presidential election, which found that 78% of LGBTQ voters supported Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, compared to 14%. who said he voted for Trump.

"Today's poll demonstrates a monumental lead for Vice President Biden in the campaign for the presidency," Ellis said.

"And it's a direct response to

from day one."

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Despite taking a number of anti-LGBTQ measures - including banning trans people from serving in the military, allowing adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples and opposing protections in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity - the Trump campaign has advertised the president as a friend of the community.

In August, Trump tweeted a campaign video made by Richard Grenell, the former acting director of National Intelligence, who is openly gay and called the president

.

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Grenell is on the advisory board for Trump's campaign on LGBTQ issues, promoting him as "the first president to begin his presidency supporting equal marriage."

Although they did not endorse Trump in 2016, the organization Log Cabin Republicans, a group of conservatives who are LGBTQ, supports the president in his re-election process and launched OUTSpoken, a multimedia initiative designed to give gay conservatives a platform during the campaign.

In early September, Trump retweeted an article about an opinion poll conducted by Hornet, a social network for the gay community, which reportedly found that 45% of gay men surveyed planned to vote for him.

Hornet cautioned that his poll was unscientific and should not be taken as a prediction

of voter response on November 3.

In the GLAAD poll, likely voters who identified as

Lesbian women supported Biden 83-11, while non-cisgender voters supported the former vice president 72-18.

Seventy-five percent of LGBTQ people who were asked in the GLAAD survey said they

while 57% said they had “somewhat or very favorable” opinions about Biden.

Ellis said the results "should do away with misinformation from the president's team and other unreliable sources about his track record and

."