DeSantis' mpaign shared a vio that attacked Tmp for his support of LGBTQ rights, promptg wispread backlash. Both ndidat have rolled back protectns for trans and gay people office.
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- THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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An ad for the CarGus webse is beg lled “the gayt mercial of 2021” onle and ’s not hard to see why. The vio opens wh a clip of then-ndidate Tmp pledgg to "do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens" a speech at the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn, jt weeks after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay club Orlando.
What crics are sayg The Log Cab Republins, an anizatn that advot for LGBTQ nservativ, said a Twter thread that DeSantis' rhetoric had "ventured to homophobic terrory, " llg "divisive and sperate. "I mean, the ad smacked of both homophobia and homoeroticism at the same time. Richard Grenell, Tmp's former actg director of natnal telligence — and the first openly gay Cabet member — lled the vio "unniably homophobic.
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" Christa Phaw, the rapid rponse director for DeSantis' mpaign, rpond a tweet that opposg the feral regnn of Pri Month is not homophobic. Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg — the first openly gay Cabet member to be approved by the Senate — allud to DeSantis "tryg to prove his manhood, " and asked who he is aimg to help. DeSantis — who said while mpaigng for ernor 2018 that "gettg to bathroom wars, I don't thk that's a good e of our time" — has taken a more hardle stance recent years, signg a slew of bills that roll back protectns for gay and transgenr dividuals.
Last March he signed a bill that crics have brand "Don't Say Gay, " which bans public school teachers om holdg classroom stctn about sexual orientatn or genr inty. An expert told Insir the vio is a "culmatn" of DeSantis' "extremely homophobic" mpaign. "To wrap up "Pri Month, " let's hear om the polician who did more than any other Republin to celebrate …" the tweet clips garnered swift cricism om Republins, cludg Log Cab Republins — an anizatn reprentg LGBTQ+ nservativ that have shown support for Tmp — llg "divisive" and "homophobic.
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" "This is a mpaign that's extremely homophobic, " Caraballo said. She poted out, for example, that DeSantis' new expansn of his "Don't Say Gay" bill — which lims nversatns about LGBTQ+ people classrooms — was signed on the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. The anizatn prevly threw s support at DeSantis when he signed his "Don't Say Gay" law.
"Now that 's gone that extra step where 's basilly targetg even the wealthier whe gay Republins, now they're sayg ''s jt gog too far, ' and so I thk that's why there's been a b of phback, " Caraballo said.
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