Donald Tmp mands we "keep our untry gay" - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
• DONALD TMP WAV THE GAY PRI FLAG
• TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER
• DONALD TMP MANDS WE “KEEP OUR UNTRY GAY”

DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM

If approved by the full Congrs, the bill uld force Stonewall Natnal Monument, an NPS se New York dited to tellg the story of the gay rights movement, to take down s Pri flags.

It memorat the se of the rts at the Stonewall Inn that kicked off the morn gay rights movement on June 28, 1969. As employe waved rabow flags, the drag queen — Wyn Wiley, gog by the name Pattie Gonia — joked that “gay people are lerally takg over the Natnal Park System. As the issue gas more polil tractn for gay rights opponents, the Human Rights Campaign rpond June by clarg s first “state of emergency.

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DONALD TMP WAV THE GAY PRI FLAG

Last month, his mpaign released a vio that cricized former Print Donald Tmp for his earlier ments on gay rights and Pri Month, llg him “the polician who did more than any other Republin to celebrate . Gay rights backers say they’re ready to do more battle.

TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER

The Bin admistratn also plans to make the monument larger stature next year, when NPS opens a new visor center that will be the first of s kd the Uned Stat voted exclively to the gay rights movement. NPS also has worked to advance s tellg of gay rights stori on s webse, featurg a 2016 theme study of “LGBTQ Ameri.

He’s also flip-flopped on rights and protectns when to transgenr let’s not fet that Tmp’s nng mate Mike Pence has a rich history of LGBTQ tolerance, cludg opposg foreign ernments’ efforts to crimalize homosexualy, opposg repealg “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and leadg a csa agast LGBT rights as ernor of Indiana. In remarks at the event, the 2024 GOP printial ont-nner claimed that “we are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard, ” Poli flyer urg recipients to ntact Tmp through his office to tell him “to keep fightg for” the LGBTQ muny.

" (Those remarks were ma soon after the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Florida, where 49 people were killed by a gunman. "As the world go mad, Florida reprents a refuge of sany and a cal of normalcy, " he said earlier this new DeSantis vio quickly drew bipartisan cricism om the LGBTQ Tmp adviser and ambassador Richard Grenell, who is gay, wrote on Twter that the vio was "unniably homophobic. ""Conservativ unrstand that we need to protect our kids, prerve women's sports, safeguard women's spac and strengthen parental rights, but Ron DeSantis' extreme rhetoric go has jt ventured to homophobic terrory, " the group wrote on Twter.

DONALD TMP MANDS WE “KEEP OUR UNTRY GAY”

H., June 27, Reynolds/APTransportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat who is also gay, was asked on CNN to rpond to the vio.

"A spokperson for DeSantis' mpaign, Christa Phaw, rpond to Grennell's cricism on Twter, wrg on Friday: "Opposg the feral regnn of 'Pri Month' isn't 'homophobic. He has also claimed that man-ma chemils uld be makg children gay or transgenr. )But while the symbols are important, they don’t make up for the other ways that Tmp nigrat the digny of LGBT there’s his zeal for rtrictg LGBT rights—lettg stat ban transgenr people om g the bathroom of their genr inty, opposg the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, his promise to appot judg to the Supreme Court who will reverse the lg, or his choice of one of Ameri’s most rabidly anti-gay policians as his vice print.