Who Is Joseph Ziegler, the Gay IRS Whistleblower Hunter Bin Probe?

Contents:

• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER
• TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• VIO OF TMP SAYG 'WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY GAY' VIEWED 1M TIM
• DONALD TMP’S MORE ACCEPTG VIEWS ON GAY ISSU SET HIM APART G.O.P.
• WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• TMP EXPLAS HIS LOVE OF ‘Y.M.C.A.,’ WHICH HE CLAIMS IS THE ‘GAY NATNAL ANTHEM’
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

Far om protectg , he and his admistratn have strand , packg feral urts wh judg hostile to gay rights, barrg transgenr Amerins om ary service and givg a green light to Amerins who, cg relig beliefs, don’t want to give medil re or bake a ke. When several Uned Stat embassi — cludg the one Berl, over which Grenell pris — requted permissn to fly the rabow flag this month honor of Gay Pri, the State Department said no. His treatment of gay people perfectly reveals the flabbs of his nvictns and his willgns to stand at odds wh a majory of Amerins if pleas the smaller number who adore him.

As gay and transgenr Amerins prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg on June 28, we hab a state of gnive dissonance, starg at a spl screen: sults om the Whe Hoe on one half of , posive rercement om elsewhere on the Krzaczynski/Agence France-Prse, via Getty ImagDemocrats’ embrace of Buttigieg, the first openly gay polician to land the top tier of printial ndidat, illtrat the trajectory beyond Tmp. In Colorado, five Republin lawmakers voted favor of a bill that banned anti-gay nversn therapy for mors, and six Republins, cludg some of the same on, voted to make easier for transgenr people to have the genr on their birth certifit changed.

Acrdg to Freedom for All Amerins, an advocy group, more than two dozen Republin lawmakers 15 stat recently sponsored legislatn to protect gay or transgenr people om discrimatn. Tmp has nomated and the Senate has nfirmed many jurists wh explic, unabashed hostily to gay and transgenr rights, cludg, jt days ago, Matthew Kacsmaryk, who received a lifetime appotment as a Uned Stat district judge for the Northern District of Texas.

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

This is a man who 2015 wrote that gay rights were part of a sexual revolutn that was “rooted the soil of elist postmorn philosophy” and “sought public affirmatn of the lie that the human person is an tonomo blob of Silly Putty unnstraed by nature or blogy, and that marriage, sexualy, genr inty and even the unborn child mt yield to the erotic sir of liberated adults. Tmp’s relatively benign ments before beg elected did nothg to prepare Mter for the ban on openly transgenr people the ary and for his admistratn’s edicts, efforts or clared tentns to elimate protectns for transgenr people the Affordable Care Act, allow health re workers to ce relig beliefs refg to treat gay or transgenr people, let ferally fund hog shelters ny accs to transgenr people, make easier for adoptn agenci to turn away same-sex upl and more.

Sce the 2016 electn and even before, there has been a persistent meme, sometim the form of prott art or jok by edians, posg Print Donald Tmp and Rsian Print Vladimir Put as gay lovers.

Well-meang liberals eher aren’t able to discern that ’s not a gay thg, or they’re not terted aimg higher than the lazit, most offensive joke isn’t homosexual or bisexual ― at least, not based on any rmatn we have.

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

But there have been allegatns of leerg at teenage girls at bety pageants, and, of urse, sexual harassment and asslt agast women, which he’s bragged about on tape and bshed off when asked about is, however, stnchly homosocial. The world of gay men has s share of misogyny, sexual orientatn today is nsired an nate characteristic by most medil profsnals and social scientists, social preference is learned wh culture ― ’s lerally about how people are socialized.

TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN

“Perhaps the greatt ditor of his extreme homosocial tennci is that Tmp even seems to view his elr dghter, Ivanka, ls as an tellectual equal and more as a sex object.

And he has repeatedly dismissed, mistreated and attacked German Chancellor Angela Merkel ways that seem more personal than term “homosocial” has been around for long a time, but the fluential scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick popularized s e the ’80s, wrg on “male homosocial sire” and specifilly about how anxiety around masculy and around homosexualy fluence . A 2007 Atralian study documented “the homosocial anizatn of men’s heterosexual relatns, ” notg that among some men: Male-male iendships take prry over male-female relatns, and platonic iendships wh women are dangeroly femizg. ”Perhaps the greatt ditor of his extreme homosocial tennci is that Tmp even seems to view his elr dghter, Ivanka, ls as an tellectual equal and more as a sex object.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

But whatever the se, Tmp’s homosocial affectn for Put seems to be unrequed ― which may make Tmp even more bee there’s not a sexual attractn don’t mean ’s not a ep, strong feelg that Tmp has for Put ― one that may ed give him palpatns and have him doodlg late at night. While Tmp has policy differenc wh them, aga, like May and Merkel, his bizarre, on-aga, off-aga meanor toward both men suggts somethg else is gog on as seems most fortable wh men he perceiv as entirely homosocial (whether they actually are or not) and, th, misogynistic ― like Put, the Philipp’ dictatorial Print Rodrigo Duterte, Turkish Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ― even Kim Jong Un.

But by dog that, they’re makg the joke at the expense of an opprsed mory ― and tappg to overt or latent homophobia their mentary, whether a sober crique or a bg joke, really ought to exame Tmp’s secury about his masculy.

VIO OF TMP SAYG 'WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY GAY' VIEWED 1M TIM

]The month of June was filled wh big moments for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr that monthlong stretch, the Supreme Court renred a sweepg cisn providg workplace protectns for gay and transgenr people. Tmp, who durg his 2016 printial mpaign ed gay people as a wedge agast Mlims, whom he pated broadly as extremists, followg the shootgs at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub by a Mlim man. Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr.

Grenell referred to his own appotment, as well as to the print’s acceptance of the Supreme Court’s lg of gay marriage as nstutnal and his efforts to ph untri that crimalize beg gay to end those practic. People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr.

DONALD TMP’S MORE ACCEPTG VIEWS ON GAY ISSU SET HIM APART G.O.P.

Tmp’s embrace of iativ promotg relig eedom has been ed by people si and outsi his ernment to jtify discrimatn agast gay and transgenr Kelly/RtersOver many years, Mr. Tmp was qutned about whether he would nsir rcdg his ban on transgenr people enterg the ary by a reporter for The Washgton Bla, a gay Tmp gtured to his ch, appearg to signal the reporter’s mask was mufflg him.

WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?

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. "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.

"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. "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?

TMP EXPLAS HIS LOVE OF ‘Y.M.C.A.,’ WHICH HE CLAIMS IS THE ‘GAY NATNAL ANTHEM’

"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.

"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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

"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. 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).

Former Print Donald Tmp told a gay supporter that they did not "look gay" durg a Wednday fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago club held the fundraiser for Michigan Republin ngrsnal ndidate John Gibbs, who is opposg hmen GOP Reprentative Peter Meijer. "Peter Boyk, the founr of the Gays for Tmp anizatn, told Newsweek a Thursday email those who associate wh his group "probably wouldn't 'look gay' bee 's a stereotype that fs more wh the typil 'look' of leftist LGBT. Some openly gay dividuals also served high-level posns wh the Tmp Whe Hoe unr Tmp also took numero anti-LGBTQ+ stanc on var legal s makg their way through the urts.

THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

"The dividuals that I work wh this buildg don't treat me any differently bee I'm gay, " Judd Deere, who served as Tmp's Whe Hoe Deputy Prs Secretary, told BuzzFeed News 2019.

The Uned Stat is the bt untry the world for gays and lbians, " Grenell said a July 2020 Q&A by the Office of the Director of Natnal Intelligence for Pri month.

Print Tmp beme the first print to name an openly gay person to a Cabet-level posn this week wh the appotment of Richard Grenell as actg director of natnal telligence. The iative followed the reported hangg of a gay man Iran, one of the Tmp admistratn’s adversari, and an op-ed for a German news publitn Grenell voiced a ll to arms. 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.