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- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- GAY NSERVATIV EXIST AND ARE HAVG A MOMENT THE US
- MY EXPERIENCE AS A GAY CONSERVATIVE
- MEET BRANDON STRAKA, A GAY FORMER LIBERAL ENURAGG OTHERS TO #WALKAWAY OM DEMOCRATS
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.
In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.
He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.
GAY NSERVATIV EXIST AND ARE HAVG A MOMENT THE US
To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. I'm a center-left liberal gay man creasgly terted datg a nservative.
I thk 's driven by my distaste for the tenncy of some gay leftists to make LGBT stuff their entire personaly.
And for that reason, I've also never pursued relatnships gay "scen" wherever I've lived. Neher gay liberals/leftists nor gay nservativ are monolhs, but I've found the former group to be more sceptible to the fluence of scene culture.
MY EXPERIENCE AS A GAY CONSERVATIVE
While I uld never date a far right culture warrr type, a sane, center-right guy might be a wele reprieve om the scene and scene adjacent gays I see around me.
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MEET BRANDON STRAKA, A GAY FORMER LIBERAL ENURAGG OTHERS TO #WALKAWAY OM DEMOCRATS
”GUY BENSON: I'M CHRISTIAN, CONSERVATIVE AND GAYBenson, 34, is also the polil edor for Wise is a nsultant for the feral ernment, acrdg to the BENSON OPENS UP ABOUT BEING GAY, CONSERVATIVEThe pair met after Benson me out as gay on Fox News' "The Kelly File" 2015, where he'd been promotg his book, "End of Discsn. ""In the book, a footnote, I me out as gay bee there was a whole chapter about gay rights and the relig liberti, and I felt like was important for me to disclose to the dience jt ethilly, y, om a journalism perspective, " Benson was watchg the segment at home wh his fay Colorado and said sparked him to email Benson. A WEDDING TOAST FROM PRODUCER CHRISTINE TO HER GUY"I wanted help rencilg beg a nservative and beg gay.
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