Even Fox News is boycotting, but an LGBTQ+ outlet is still covering the White House pool

While TV outlets including Fox News are boycotting White House press pool events in solidarity with CNN, The Washington Blade, a D.C.-based LGBTQ+ outlet, continued Monday to provide print press pool coverage of President Donald Trump.All television media outlets in the White House TV press pool refused to provide pool coverage on Monday, a day CNN was scheduled to provide video feeds and send reporters to any Trump events. That move came after Trump stripped CNN, MS Now and Politico of press credentials over the weekend because he was angered by their coverage.The five outlets who share TV pool duty issued a joint statement on the decision. “The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting,” that statement reads. Notably, Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich serves as the current White House Correspondents’ Association president.Related: President Donald Trump bans CNN, MS Now, and Politico from White HouseBut the same day TV outlets showed solidarity, other outlets continued to participating in other pools, including the print pool of which Politico is a member.On Monday, The Washington Blade, an LGBTQ+ newspaper founded in 1969, was serving as the primary print pool provider with reporter Joe Reberkenny sending the primary dispatches about Trump’s activity throughout the day. That included updates from a ribbon-cutting for the White House helipad.Related: Federal judge restores AP’s full access to White House events in victory for press freedomThe secondary print outlet in the pool on Monday was The Daily Caller, a conservative outlet sympathetic to Trump. Ironically, that outlet shared duties with a professional from the Blade, an outlet highly critical of Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights since his return to power in Washington, D.C.The Advocate reached out to The Washington Blade editor Ke