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• WHO ARE THE 10 CLOSETED GAY REPUBLINS CONGRS?
• GAY REPUBLINS - FULL CAST & CREW
• MEET THE GAY REPUBLIN WHO HELPED FEAT EVERY ANTI-LGBTQ BILL WYOMG
• SURPRISE, SURPRISE: GAY REPUBLINS REALLY ARE SELF-LOATHG, STUDY FDS
• ARE GAY REPUBLINS OK? NEW REARCH CASTS DOUBT
• PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
• TOP 10 POWER GAY REPUBLINS
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• GAY REPUBLINS

WHO ARE THE 10 CLOSETED GAY REPUBLINS CONGRS?

County Library's thor's seri, ALOUD, to hear Daniel Hurewz, who wrote Bohemian Los Angel and the Makg of Morn Polics and Stuart Timmons, who wrote Gay L.

Loose on the 'til then unmolted gay muny, the first time-- though not the last-- they would be spegoated by an amb and crooked headg over to the Library I saw a New York Tim story about a ls socially divisive reactn to gay people, not California, where we are currently burned by a rpt and Neanrthal Republin ernor, but om Massachetts, where the state legislature stck down attempts by right-wg loons driven sane by hollow terpretatns of Bronze Age superstns, to outlaw same-sex marriage.

I gus isn't a cince that Massachetts also boasts one of only two openly gay members of Congrs, Barney Frank (whose district, by the way, has a smaller percentage of gay people than the state general) their May issue OUT Magaze featured "The Power 50" (they're obssed wh ane lists) and as part of that they terviewed Barney: "Out On The Hill-- Comg Out Didn't Stop Barney Frank From Beg One of Ameri's Most Powerful Policians. Mike's web se, blogActive, mak a hab of exposg the worst of the hypocr, the on wh the nsistently homophobic votg rerds who also participate closeted gay sex, the only kd Republins approve is ultra ut. He wants multiple sworn statements om participants and clear pictur before he'll out anyone, no matter how vicly anti-gay they are.

GAY REPUBLINS - FULL CAST & CREW

Republin and LGBTThe Republin Party platform may not be as embracg of LGBT equaly as many would like — many would say 's embracg of equaly — but gay Republins see progrs party clivens. Silin Valley billnaire Peter Thiel, a gay man, gets a prime time speakg slot Thursday, markg the first time 16 years that an openly gay man tak the stage at the GOP’s granst party.

Sce he took office 2005, openly gay Republin Dan Zwonzer, 41, has succsfully orchtrated efforts to feat at least six anti-LGBTQ bills troduced the Wyomg Legislature, many of which would have set lims on same-sex marriag, and he has been a powerful polil voice behalf of gay Wyomg.

""You know, one of my kids was unfortable havg two gay dads for the first six months he was wh , and now he's like, 'Oh, my iends thk 's so ol. My iends want to meet you, '" he the state notor for the 1998 murr of Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt who was btally beaten by two men and left for ad near Laramie, attus have shifted toward acceptance, Zwonzer, Wyomg has yet to pass any statewi legislatn protectg LGBTQ rints, although the cy of Laramie, where Shepard was a stunt at the Universy of Wyomg, passed an anti-discrimatn ordance 2015 that prohibs discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty employment, hog and accs to public recent years, Republin lawmakers troduced several anti-transgenr bills, cludg at least one so-lled bathroom bill that would have penalized trans people for g public acmodatns matchg their genr inti, but they were "ad on arrival, " Zwonzer said.

MEET THE GAY REPUBLIN WHO HELPED FEAT EVERY ANTI-LGBTQ BILL WYOMG

"We've never taken very many steps forward, but we never took a step back, " Zwonzer said of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights Shepard's murr, lawmakers Wyomg tried but failed to pass a hate crim bill 1999, Zwonzer said.

Zwonzer is the only gay Republin lawmaker endorsed by the Victory Fund who is still the 2020 said he has faced cricism om lleagu on both the left and the right, two factns he says are gettg more "iologilly extreme. A new Williams Instute study found that right-wg gays are more likely to wish they were straight.

Gay GOP group the Log Cab Republins has been pecially sctized this year by relentlsly tryg to sell Donald Tmp as the most pro-gay print ever. In realy, Tmp has spent the past three and a half years chippg away at LGBTQ equaly and appotg antigay judg, he’s embraced some of the most homophobic lears the world, cludg Vladimir Put and Jair Bolsonaro, and he spoke out agast same-sex marriage while on the mpaign trail 2016. Donald’s lbian niece, Mary Tmp, tells a much different story about her uncle’s attus towards LGBTQ people, sayg he’s “unfortable” around trans and gay people.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: GAY REPUBLINS REALLY ARE SELF-LOATHG, STUDY FDS

Related: Weird vio by self-hatg gay Republins claims Donald Tmp is the “most pro-gay” print ever. A new study dit that gay Republins experience ternalized homophobia and self-loatg at high Williams Instute, a pro-LGBTQ+ thk tank at the Universy of California of Los Angel, published a new report on Friday fdg that 38% of gay Republins view their homosexualy as a “personal shortg, ” while a whoppg 41% claimed that they would prefer to be straight altogether.

Several studi, however, dite that terpersonal relatnships and mental health may be negatively affected by ternalized homophobia.

Rearch also shows that there’s a growg rift between gay Republins and their trans muny members, only 2 percent of whom intify as Republin, acrdg to the U.

ARE GAY REPUBLINS OK? NEW REARCH CASTS DOUBT

”Voters exprsed support for trans accs to medil re and said they were ls likely to vote for a ndidate wh an anti-LGBTQ+ a world where creasg numbers of people across party l exprs support for trans rights, the prospect of trans equaly has bee a wedge issue for Republins 2020, apparently even the gay one area which study participants across party l uld agree was that society on the whole “[thks] ls of an LGB person and that most people would not want to hire an openly LGB person to take re of their children. Richard Grenell, the former ambassador to Germany who has been a fixture of the ralli, recently tweeted his predictn that “33%” of gay voters will show up for Tmp on Tuday. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBehd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G.

11, 2022WASHINGTON — When the Senate passed landmark legislatn last month to mandate feral regnn for same-sex marriag, the vote was ld as a rare moment of bipartisanship at a time of ep polil polarizatn the the narrow aln of 12 Republins that joed every Democrat support of the measure — which cleared Congrs on Thursday wh fal passage the Hoe, sendg to Print Bin — did not sprg up spontaneoly a groundswell of cross-party the scen, a group of fluential Republin donors and operativ, cludg some of the party’s most proment gay lears wh long experience proddg their party to embrace L.

PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL

Senators that backg would give them a polil quiet work helps expla how a bill to ensure regnn of same-sex marriag across the untry went om beg the subject of an electn-season polil manver that few expected to be enacted to an iative embraced by a cisive majory of senators, and an unexpected victory for the gay rights movement that will be one of the fal acts of the Democratic-ntrolled Congrs.

Bh’s mpaign manager 2004 and a former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee who me out as gay 2010, and Centerle Actn, a centrist nonprof fund by him and Regald Brown, a lawyer Mr.

TOP 10 POWER GAY REPUBLINS

ImageKen Mehlman, seen 2010, has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly Heisler/The New York TimMr. Mehlman, who has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly polici, also leaned on a work of Republins that he enlisted 2019 to urge the Supreme Court to clare that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicly prohibs discrimatn agast gay men, lbians and transgenr people the workplace.

Tmp; Ben Gsberg, the proment Republin lawyer; Mary Cheney, the openly gay and married dghter of former Vice Print Dick Cheney; Tom Ridge, the former homeland secury secretary unr Mr. More about Annie KarniA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 28 of the New York edn wh the headle: Proment Gay Republins Helped Smooth Way for the Marriage Bill.

Print Bh had taken an open stand agast gay marriage, effectively forcg the members of Log Cab to chose what was more important to each of them: beg gay or beg republin. nservative, homosexual, loyalty, paradox, perspectiv, polil-mpaign, Print, Republin-Party, right-wg, same-sex-marriage. Mike Huckabee (R), by ntrast — who had warned Obergefell would her the “crimalizatn of Christiany” — veighed om the bate stage agast polici allowg gay and transgenr service members to serve openly the ary.

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

GLAAD highlighted a 2010 report Newsweek that Stt “nsirs homosexualy a morally wrong choice, like adultery. An unscientific survey last month by the gay social app Hor dited that 45 percent of s Amerin rponnts were votg to re-elect the print.

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But a Morng Consult poll om June found 19 percent of LGBTQ voters backed Tmp, while GLAAD's State of LGBTQ Voters report September reported jt 17 percent of LGBTQ registered voters were supportg the 's poll rults were siar to ex poll fdgs om 2016, which found that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr voters backed Hillary Clton over Tmp by 74 percent to 14 percent.

'100 percent on board'While the precise numbers may be uncerta, Tmp's msage is appealg to some segment of the LGBTQ Kazmierczak, a gay real tate agent Virgia who said he's "100 percent on board" wh the print, blam Democrats for fixatg on inty polics.

If you're gay, specifilly, Democrat propaganda stat that the Republins are gog to take away your rights. "Kazmierczak lled Tmp a “stnch supporter of gay people and their rights, ” but he said he mak a distctn when to relig groups. On May 31, 2019, he regnized June as Pri Month for the first time a seri of tweets that doubled down on his mment to crimalizg homosexualy abroad.

It ma Grenell the first openly gay person named to a Cabet-level months later, Grenell was appoted the Tmp mpaign's senr adviser on LGBTQ outreach.

"A lot of people jt don't like to be told they n only thk a certa way, and that's exactly what the left do, " said Bob Kabel, chair of the Log Cab Republins, a natnal gay nservative group.

"You're acced of beg a racist or a homophobe if you don't agree wh everythg they say, and a lot of people are jt tired of that. "Others have rporated their support for Team Tmp to their fluencer brands, like lbian YouTuber Arielle Srcella, gay polil mentator Dave Rub and bi glam rocker Ricky Rebel, who appeared at the Grammys red leather chaps wh the words "IMPEACH THIS" wrten across his backsi. #WalkAway founr Brandon Straka wh Jeane Pirro on Fox NewsIn 2018, Brandon Straka was an unknown gay hairstylist and aspirg actor.

"Some voters are askg themselv, 'Do I vote as a gay person who is worried about my eedom and equaly, or do I vote as someone who's fearful for what the hell is gog on my untry? Dan Inn, real tate veloper Jill Homan and var members of the Log Cab Smh, a Black gay Iraq War veteran, is on the Tmp Pri board.

S., is still the GOP's official platform, Smh isn't worried about gay rights beg on the choppg block.

"Right now, there are so many gays and lbians that are beg manipulated and ma to feel that they're unr nstant attack all the time by this admistratn, which is jt not the se, " he said. "We don't need lears to say, 'Hey, gay people, we're gog to do the thgs for you, ' bee a risg ti lifts all boats, " he said. "If Tmp is helpg stimulate the enomy, if he is helpg wd down forever wars, if he is dog thgs that benef Ameri, then gay and lbian Amerins are gog to benef, as well.

"The Democrats are takg the gay muny for granted, acrdg to Smh, who said his goal on the Tmp Pri advisory board is to reach younger LGBTQ people "so that they don't see themselv as victims. "In July, the Log Cab Republins lnched OUTSpoken, a multimedia mpaign signed to "bat the half-tths, misreprentatns and outright li that the gay left and the mastream media proliferate.

"Asked about Tmp's attu toward the LGBTQ muny, Kabel offered a seri of well-rehearsed talkg pots: Tmp is "the most gay-iendly print, " same-sex marriage is settled law, Tmp-nomated Supreme Court Jtice Neil Gorsuch wrote the pro-LGBTQ cisn Bostock v. "Trans rights: A ‘perplexg’ issueLike many other gay nservativ, however, he seems to disnnect gay rights and transgenr rights.

Aaron Schock, while the mpaign’s store sells T-shirts bearg slogans like "gay for Tucker" "gay for Melania" and "gay not stupid. ”OUTspoken sent Brokeback Patrt, who has stated trans women are not women, to New Orleans’ Southern Dence party to ask passersby if they thk Tmp is “pro-gay. Acrdg to the GLAAD poll, however, 19 percent of trans and nonbary registered voters were supportg Tmp — more than eher gay men (17 percent) or lbians (11 percent).

So we shouldn't be surprised that there are gays who support a ndidate that is all those 'isms. "He poted to the admistratn's mpaign to crimalize homosexualy, which, a year and a half after was announced by Grenell, "has acplished lerally nothg, " he said. "Horbelt said the succs of the gay rights movement have given space for LGBTQ voters to walk away om .