In the wake of the Orlando shooting last week, Donald Trump is gaining approval from a group that has traditionally and vehemently opposed Republican presidential nominees: the LGBT community.

After gunman Omar Mateen opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Orlando in the early hours of June 12 and claimed allegiance to the Islamic State, Trump immediately made headlines for his blunt condemnation of “radical Islamic terrorism,” and for lampooning President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s own vacillations on Islamic terror.

“Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.”

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Going one step further, Trump also made a point of offering his specific support for the LGBT community and those affected by the tragedy.

“Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs,” Trump tweeted two days after the massacre.

Trump’s nod to solidarity with the LGBT community struck a chord with some.

“Trump went one step farther when he acknowledged the LGBT community and expressed sympathy,” said Gregory T. Angelo, the executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans. “That is historic – we’ve never had a presumptive Republican presidential nominee express support in that way … It shows the GOP that there is no need to avoid addressing the real reason why [the gay nightclub-goers] were targeted.”

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The Log Cabin Republicans, a national organization that works to “make the Republican Party more inclusive, particularly on gay and lesbian issues,” according to its website, believes that “opposing gay and lesbian equality is inconsistent with the GOP’s core principles of smaller government and personal freedom.”

The statement of solidarity from Trump appears to be boosting the number of gay Trump and Second Amendment supporters.

“My personal conclusion is that this is symptomatic of political correctness culture in this culture that has run amok.”

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The Pink Pistols, a gay and pro-Second Amendment group, saw its membership more than double to 3,500 after the Orlando shooting, according to a report from Fox News.

In addition, gay Trump supporter and political activist Randy Ross told Fox News that in just a few days post-Orlando he has received at least 50 additional requests to volunteer for Trump – mostly from gay men.

“[Trump] has never come out and attacked the LGBT community,” Ross told Fox News. “If you want your freedom to come together and to be protected, if you want all those things, he’s the right person to do that because I don’t believe that’s what we’re seeing on the Hillary Clinton side.”

The Log Cabin Republicans have not endorsed Trump for president — but Angelo commended Trump as a “standard bearer” for bringing attention to the special threat to the LGBT community posed by radical Islam.

In contrast to his praise for Trump, and several other prominent Republicans, Angelo condemned the Republican National Committee for “scrubbing” its original statement on the Orlando shooting by omitting any references to the LGBT community in its subsequent statement.

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“If you’re going to dispatch the evil, you need to recognize the evil and how it occurs,” Angelo said, before noting the Democrats’ own hypocrisy in calling out the Bible and Christians for their views about homosexuality while themselves refusing to condemn “radical Islam.”

“My personal conclusion is that this is symptomatic of political correctness culture in this culture that has run amok,” Angelo said as he urged both Democrats and Republicans to confront why gay people were targeted specifically in Orlando.

Angelo said that on June 11, the LGBT community at large was focused largely on the issues of the transgender bathroom debate and whether or not a photographer or a baker should be required to perform services for gay weddings against their moral convictions. But the next day, all that changed.

“On June 12, national security was also a major issue — or it should be,” Angelo said, adding that the community now needs to focus on honoring the Second Amendment and the right to self-protection. “It changed after Orlando.”