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• DESANTIS CAMPAIGN FAC BACKLASH AFTER PROMOTG UNHGED ANTI-LGBTQ ADLOG CAB REPUBLINS LLED THE AD “DIVISIVE AND SPERATE.”BY JACK MCCORDICKJULY 2, 2023FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTISJOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS’S PRINTIAL MPAIGN SHARED A BIZARRE, MEME-FILLED VIO FRIDAY CELEBRATG THE ERNOR’S ANTI-LGBTQ RERD AND ATTACKG DONALD TMP’S 2016 PLEDGE TO “DO EVERYTHG MY POWER TO PROTECT OUR LGBTQ CIZENS.” THE VIO, WHICH WAS POSTED BY THE DESANTIS WAR ROOM ACUNT AND AMPLIFIED BY DESANTIS FLUENCERS, HAS BEEN WILY NMNED AS HOMOPHOBIC, EVEN BY SOME REPUBLINS.THE VIO OPENS WH A STRG OF CLIPS OF TMP MAKG POSIVE MENTS ABOUT THE LGBTQ MUNY, CLUDG ONE THAT ME THE WAKE OF THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE 2016, WHICH TOOK PLACE DESANTIS’S HOME STATE. "TO WRAP UP PRI MONTH, LET'S HEAR OM THE POLICIAN WHO DID MORE THAN ANY OTHER REPUBLIN TO CELEBRATE ,” THE VIO IS PTNED, SEEMGLY REFERRG TO TMP. THEN THE TONE SHIFTS TO THUMPG, DARK MIC AND JUXTAPOS PICTUR OF DESANTIS—CLUDG ONE WH LASERS SHOOTG OUT OF HIS EY—WH IMAG OF BODYBUILRS AND POP CULTURE REFERENC, CLUDG CHRISTIAN BALE’S PATRICK BATEMAN (AMERIN PSYCHO) AND BRAD PT’S ACHILL (300). THE IMAG ARE MIXED WH HEADL AND D CRYG DESANTIS’S LEGISLATIVE ATTACKS ON LGBTQ PEOPLE, CLUDG ONE CLAIMG THE LAWS “LERALLY THREATEN TRANS EXISTENCE.”THE VIO WAS WILY CRICIZED, CLUDG BY SOME REPUBLINS. RICHARD GRENELL, WHO SERVED AS TMP’S ACTG DIRECTOR OF NATNAL INTELLIGENCE AND IS THE UNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SCRIBED THE VIO AS “UNNIABLY HOMOPHOBIC.” LOG CAB REPUBLINS, A LARGE, PRO-LGBTQ GOP GROUP, LLED THE AD “DIVISIVE AND SPERATE” AND SAID “VENTURED TO HOMOPHOBIC TERRORY.” AND SARAH LONGWELL, A MORATE REPUBLIN STRATEGIST, WROTE ON TWTER THAT “THE NSULTANTS WHO THK THIS KD OF ‘NNG TO TMP’S RIGHT’ IS GOG TO BE EFFECTIVE SHOULD BE SACKED.”SEVERAL MENTATORS NOTED SATURDAY THAT THE AD’S TONE AND NTENT REFLECTED DESANTIS’S MPAIGN’S URTG OF THE OBSSNS OF YOUNG, VERY ONLE RIGHT-WGERS, CLUDG THE SO-LLED GROYPERS, LED BY WHE NATNALIST AND HOLOT NIER NICHOLAS FUENT. “IT'S AN AD MA BY GROYPERS FOR GROYPERS WH ALL SORTS OF WEIRD LTLE SHOUTOUTS (PATRICK BATEMAN, 300),” WROTE THE NATN’S JEET HEER.THE VIO WAS SHARED BY NATE HOCHMAN, A FORMER NATNAL REVIEW WRER, AND MEMBER OF DESANTIS’S MUNITNS TEAM, WHO MA HEADL LAST YEAR AFTER HE PARTICIPATED A TWTER SPAC TALK WH FUENT AND PRAISED HIM FOR GETTG “A LOT OF KIDS ‘BASED’.” IT WAS ALSO PROMOTED BY PEDRO GONZALEZ, A PRO-DESANTIS FLUENCER AND MAGAZE EDOR WHOSE WORK HAS BEEN AMPLIFIED BY NUMERO MEMBERS OF THE DESANTIS MPAIGN. GONZALEZ WAS THE SUBJECT LAST TUDAY OF A MAJOR PROFILE (OF ALL PLAC) BREBART, WHICH PUBLISHED A SERI OF RACIST AND ANTISEMIC TEXTS GONZALEZ ALLEGEDLY SENT LEAKED GROUP CHATS. IN ONE, GONZALEZ CLAIMED HE WAS “TAKG UP ARMS WH THE GROYPERS.” FOLLOWG THE EXPOSé, ROLLG STONE REPORTED THAT MANY PRO-DESANTIS FLUENCERS WERE “QUICK TO RALLY” BEHD GONZALEZ.SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER EVER NFIRMED BY THE SENATE (GRENELL DID NOT GO THROUGH SENATE NFIRMATN), RPOND TO THE VIO ON SUNDAY MORNG. “I’M GOG TO LEAVE ASI THE STRANGENS OF TRYG TO PROVE YOUR MANHOOD BY PUTTG UP A VIO THAT SPLIC IMAG OF YOU BETWEEN OILED-UP, SHIRTLS BODYBUILRS,” BUTTIGIEG SAID ON CNN. IN A TWEET, BUTTEGIEG’S HBAND, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST CHASTEN GLEZMAN BUTTIGIEG, JOKED THAT THE AD WAS “ACTUALLY VERY GAY.”“I JT DON’T UNRSTAND THE MENTALY OF SOMEONE GETTG UP THE MORNG THKG HE’S TRYG TO PROVE HIS WORTH BY PETG OVER WHO N MAKE LIFE HARST FOR A HARD-H MUNY THAT IS ALREADY SO VULNERABLE AMERI,” THE TRANSPORTATN SECRETARY ADD.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRPHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ON HER “SURREAL” JOURNEY FROM FLEABAG TO INDIANA JONTHE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINJACK MCCORDICK
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• NETFLIX’S PEAKY BLRS SLAMS RON DESANTIS FOR USG CLIP ANTI-LGBTQ+ CAMPAIGN ADTHE TEAM BEHD NETFLIX’S H GANGSTER SERI LLED OUT DESANTIS FOR HIS UNTHORIZED E OF PEAKY BLRS NTENT A RECENT AD SLAMMG THE LGBTQ+ MUNY: “WE DO NOT SUPPORT NOR ENDORSE THE VIO’S NARRATIVE AND STRONGLY DISAPPROVE OF THE E OF THE NTENT THIS MANNER.”BY CHRIS MURPHYJULY 6, 2023MATT SQUIRESAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFIRST, FLORIDA ERNOR RON DESANTIS STARTED A WAR WH DISNEY. NOW HE’S UPSET NETFLIX. THE CREATIVE TEAM BEHD PEAKY BLRS, NETFLIX’S GANGSTER SERI STARRG OPPENHEIMER’S CILLIAN MURPHY, HAS SLAMMED THE REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NOMEE HOPEFUL FOR G FOOTAGE OM THE SHOW HIS MOST RECENT MPAIGN AD, WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNR BIPARTISAN FIRE FOR S HEAVILY ANTI-LGBTQ+ RHETORIC. DESANTIS’S AD BEGS BY TAKG SHOTS AT HIS BIGGT PETN FOR THE REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NOMATN, FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP, FOR ALLEGEDLY BEG SOFT ON THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. “TO WRAP UP ‘PRI MONTH,’ LET’S HEAR OM THE POLICIAN WHO DID MORE THAN ANY OTHER REPUBLIN TO CELEBRATE ,” READS A TWEET OM DESANTIS’S “RAPID RPONSE” OPERATN, WHICH EMBEDD THE MPAIGN VIO THE TWEET. THE VIO THEN FEATUR A SUPERCUT OF TMP MAKG STATEMENTS THAT ULD BE TERPRETED AS SUPPORTG THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.HALFWAY THROUGH THE AD, DESANTIS—A VOL ANTI-LGBTQ+ POLICIAN WHO SUPPORTED AND SIGNED FLORIDA’S “DON'T SAY GAY” BILL TO LAW—ATTEMPTS TO SET HIMSELF APART OM TMP, SPLICG HEADL THAT AFFIRM HIS MMENT TO STRIPPG THE LGBTQ+ MUNY OF THEIR RIGHTS. THE VIO OF DESANTIS NTAS MULTIPLE CUTS TO MURRO, HYPER-MASCULE CHARACTERS OM FILM AND TELEVISN, CLUDG MURPHY PEAKY BLRS, BRAD PT TROY, AND CHRISTIAN BALE AMERIN PSYCHO. TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ON WEDNDAY, JULY 5, THE TEAM BEHD PEAKY BLRS MA CLEAR THAT THEY HAVE NOTHG TO DO WH DANTIS’S AD OR WH HIS POLIL BELIEFS. “ON BEHALF OF THE PARTNERS OF PEAKY BLRS—STEVEN KNIGHT, CILLIAN MURPHY, CARYN MANDABACH PRODUCTNS, TIGER ASPECT PRODUCTNS AND BANIJAY RIGHTS—WE NFIRM THE FOOTAGE OF TOMMY SHELBY’S CHARACTER ED WH THE VIO POSTED BY RON DESANTIS’ MPAIGN WAS OBTAED WHOUT PERMISSN OF OFFICIAL LICENSE,” READS A TWEET OM THE SHOW’S OFFICIAL ACUNT. “WE DO NOT SUPPORT NOR ENDORSE THE VIO’S NARRATIVE AND STRONGLY DISAPPROVE OF THE E OF THE NTENT THIS MANNER.”THIS IS FAR OM THE FIRST TIME AN AD MPAIGN HAS BEEN LLED OUT FOR G AN ARTIST’S WORK WHOUT PERMISSN, OFTEN TAKG OUT OF NTEXT TO SUPPORT A POLICIAN OR E. A PLETHORA OF MICIANS AND BANDS, CLUDG BUT NOT LIMED TO ALE, AXL ROSE, THE BEATL, BCE SPRGSTEEN, NICKELBACK, THE ROLLG STON, RIHANNA, QUEEN, TOM PETTY, AND THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, HAVE VOICED THEIR OPPOSN TO TMP G THEIR MIC AT HIS MPAIGN RALLI AND HIS MPAIGN ADS, WH MANY TAKG STEPS TO LEGALLY FORBID THE FORMER PRINT OM G THEIR MIC. LAST MONTH, MATT DAMON AND BEN AFFLECK’S PRODUCTN PANY, ARTISTS EQUY, ALSO SLAMMED TMP FOR G D OF DAMON OM S MOVIE AIR A MPAIGN AD, SAYG THE PANY “HAD NO FOREKNOWLEDGE AND DID NOT NSENT” TO TMP’S E OF THE CLIP. AND WHEN THE NRA SHARED A CLIP OF AMY POEHLER’S BELOVED LLIE KNOPE OM PARKS AND RECREATN ON TWTER 2018, THE EDIAN FOUND A WAY TO VOICE HER DISAPPROVAL SPE THE FACT THAT SHE IS NOT ON TWTER. “CAN YOU TWEET THE NRA FOR ME AND TELL THEM I SAID FUCK OFF?” SHE TEXTED PARKS AND RECREATN CREATOR MICHAEL SCHUR, WHO DID JT THAT. MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CHRIS MURPHY
• DESANTIS’S NEW ANTI-LGBTQ+ AD DRAWS CONCERN AMONG GAY AND TRANS REPUBLINS

DESANTIS CAMPAIGN FAC BACKLASH AFTER PROMOTG UNHGED ANTI-LGBTQ ADLOG CAB REPUBLINS LLED THE AD “DIVISIVE AND SPERATE.”BY JACK MCCORDICKJULY 2, 2023FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTISJOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS’S PRINTIAL MPAIGN SHARED A BIZARRE, MEME-FILLED VIO FRIDAY CELEBRATG THE ERNOR’S ANTI-LGBTQ RERD AND ATTACKG DONALD TMP’S 2016 PLEDGE TO “DO EVERYTHG MY POWER TO PROTECT OUR LGBTQ CIZENS.” THE VIO, WHICH WAS POSTED BY THE DESANTIS WAR ROOM ACUNT AND AMPLIFIED BY DESANTIS FLUENCERS, HAS BEEN WILY NMNED AS HOMOPHOBIC, EVEN BY SOME REPUBLINS.THE VIO OPENS WH A STRG OF CLIPS OF TMP MAKG POSIVE MENTS ABOUT THE LGBTQ MUNY, CLUDG ONE THAT ME THE WAKE OF THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE 2016, WHICH TOOK PLACE DESANTIS’S HOME STATE. "TO WRAP UP PRI MONTH, LET'S HEAR OM THE POLICIAN WHO DID MORE THAN ANY OTHER REPUBLIN TO CELEBRATE ,” THE VIO IS PTNED, SEEMGLY REFERRG TO TMP. THEN THE TONE SHIFTS TO THUMPG, DARK MIC AND JUXTAPOS PICTUR OF DESANTIS—CLUDG ONE WH LASERS SHOOTG OUT OF HIS EY—WH IMAG OF BODYBUILRS AND POP CULTURE REFERENC, CLUDG CHRISTIAN BALE’S PATRICK BATEMAN (AMERIN PSYCHO) AND BRAD PT’S ACHILL (300). THE IMAG ARE MIXED WH HEADL AND D CRYG DESANTIS’S LEGISLATIVE ATTACKS ON LGBTQ PEOPLE, CLUDG ONE CLAIMG THE LAWS “LERALLY THREATEN TRANS EXISTENCE.”THE VIO WAS WILY CRICIZED, CLUDG BY SOME REPUBLINS. RICHARD GRENELL, WHO SERVED AS TMP’S ACTG DIRECTOR OF NATNAL INTELLIGENCE AND IS THE UNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SCRIBED THE VIO AS “UNNIABLY HOMOPHOBIC.” LOG CAB REPUBLINS, A LARGE, PRO-LGBTQ GOP GROUP, LLED THE AD “DIVISIVE AND SPERATE” AND SAID “VENTURED TO HOMOPHOBIC TERRORY.” AND SARAH LONGWELL, A MORATE REPUBLIN STRATEGIST, WROTE ON TWTER THAT “THE NSULTANTS WHO THK THIS KD OF ‘NNG TO TMP’S RIGHT’ IS GOG TO BE EFFECTIVE SHOULD BE SACKED.”SEVERAL MENTATORS NOTED SATURDAY THAT THE AD’S TONE AND NTENT REFLECTED DESANTIS’S MPAIGN’S URTG OF THE OBSSNS OF YOUNG, VERY ONLE RIGHT-WGERS, CLUDG THE SO-LLED GROYPERS, LED BY WHE NATNALIST AND HOLOT NIER NICHOLAS FUENT. “IT'S AN AD MA BY GROYPERS FOR GROYPERS WH ALL SORTS OF WEIRD LTLE SHOUTOUTS (PATRICK BATEMAN, 300),” WROTE THE NATN’S JEET HEER.THE VIO WAS SHARED BY NATE HOCHMAN, A FORMER NATNAL REVIEW WRER, AND MEMBER OF DESANTIS’S MUNITNS TEAM, WHO MA HEADL LAST YEAR AFTER HE PARTICIPATED A TWTER SPAC TALK WH FUENT AND PRAISED HIM FOR GETTG “A LOT OF KIDS ‘BASED’.” IT WAS ALSO PROMOTED BY PEDRO GONZALEZ, A PRO-DESANTIS FLUENCER AND MAGAZE EDOR WHOSE WORK HAS BEEN AMPLIFIED BY NUMERO MEMBERS OF THE DESANTIS MPAIGN. GONZALEZ WAS THE SUBJECT LAST TUDAY OF A MAJOR PROFILE (OF ALL PLAC) BREBART, WHICH PUBLISHED A SERI OF RACIST AND ANTISEMIC TEXTS GONZALEZ ALLEGEDLY SENT LEAKED GROUP CHATS. IN ONE, GONZALEZ CLAIMED HE WAS “TAKG UP ARMS WH THE GROYPERS.” FOLLOWG THE EXPOSé, ROLLG STONE REPORTED THAT MANY PRO-DESANTIS FLUENCERS WERE “QUICK TO RALLY” BEHD GONZALEZ.SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER EVER NFIRMED BY THE SENATE (GRENELL DID NOT GO THROUGH SENATE NFIRMATN), RPOND TO THE VIO ON SUNDAY MORNG. “I’M GOG TO LEAVE ASI THE STRANGENS OF TRYG TO PROVE YOUR MANHOOD BY PUTTG UP A VIO THAT SPLIC IMAG OF YOU BETWEEN OILED-UP, SHIRTLS BODYBUILRS,” BUTTIGIEG SAID ON CNN. IN A TWEET, BUTTEGIEG’S HBAND, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST CHASTEN GLEZMAN BUTTIGIEG, JOKED THAT THE AD WAS “ACTUALLY VERY GAY.”“I JT DON’T UNRSTAND THE MENTALY OF SOMEONE GETTG UP THE MORNG THKG HE’S TRYG TO PROVE HIS WORTH BY PETG OVER WHO N MAKE LIFE HARST FOR A HARD-H MUNY THAT IS ALREADY SO VULNERABLE AMERI,” THE TRANSPORTATN SECRETARY ADD.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRPHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ON HER “SURREAL” JOURNEY FROM FLEABAG TO INDIANA JONTHE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINJACK MCCORDICK

“The fact is that homosexualy is unhealthy for dividuals and harms the muny and nnot lead to long term prospery.

10, Gay / AP fileWhen asked to ment on the ads, Chris Pack, a spokperson for the NRCC, said: “Your willgns to be spoon-fed Victory Fund’s talkg pots while refg to reach out to any nservative groups like Log Cab Republins is yet another example of your liberal bias and why the Amerin people no longer tst the media.

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The Log Cab Republins is a gay nservative New Hampshire, Democrat Chris Pappas — who 2018 beme the first openly gay man to reprent the state Congrs — is a tight race wh Republin challenger Matt a bate on Oct, 21, Mowers brought up Pappas’ alleged relatnship wh a lobbyist and acced the ndidate of impropriety. ”Mowers’ mpaign manager, John Corbett, lled the homophobia claims “untthful accatns.

“Congrsman Pappas should not attempt to acce anyone askg the qutns of beg homophobic. Wh all the issu and challeng facg New Hampshire and our untry — Matt is g the fal days of the mpaign to talk about and tweet about the datg life of his out gay opponent.

Homophobic and transphobic attacks may backfire. But Target’s rponse has trated supporters of gay and transgenr rights, who argued the pany ved to bigoted prsure.

NETFLIX’S PEAKY BLRS SLAMS RON DESANTIS FOR USG CLIP ANTI-LGBTQ+ CAMPAIGN ADTHE TEAM BEHD NETFLIX’S H GANGSTER SERI LLED OUT DESANTIS FOR HIS UNTHORIZED E OF PEAKY BLRS NTENT A RECENT AD SLAMMG THE LGBTQ+ MUNY: “WE DO NOT SUPPORT NOR ENDORSE THE VIO’S NARRATIVE AND STRONGLY DISAPPROVE OF THE E OF THE NTENT THIS MANNER.”BY CHRIS MURPHYJULY 6, 2023MATT SQUIRESAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFIRST, FLORIDA ERNOR RON DESANTIS STARTED A WAR WH DISNEY. NOW HE’S UPSET NETFLIX. THE CREATIVE TEAM BEHD PEAKY BLRS, NETFLIX’S GANGSTER SERI STARRG OPPENHEIMER’S CILLIAN MURPHY, HAS SLAMMED THE REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NOMEE HOPEFUL FOR G FOOTAGE OM THE SHOW HIS MOST RECENT MPAIGN AD, WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNR BIPARTISAN FIRE FOR S HEAVILY ANTI-LGBTQ+ RHETORIC. DESANTIS’S AD BEGS BY TAKG SHOTS AT HIS BIGGT PETN FOR THE REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NOMATN, FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP, FOR ALLEGEDLY BEG SOFT ON THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. “TO WRAP UP ‘PRI MONTH,’ LET’S HEAR OM THE POLICIAN WHO DID MORE THAN ANY OTHER REPUBLIN TO CELEBRATE ,” READS A TWEET OM DESANTIS’S “RAPID RPONSE” OPERATN, WHICH EMBEDD THE MPAIGN VIO THE TWEET. THE VIO THEN FEATUR A SUPERCUT OF TMP MAKG STATEMENTS THAT ULD BE TERPRETED AS SUPPORTG THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.HALFWAY THROUGH THE AD, DESANTIS—A VOL ANTI-LGBTQ+ POLICIAN WHO SUPPORTED AND SIGNED FLORIDA’S “DON'T SAY GAY” BILL TO LAW—ATTEMPTS TO SET HIMSELF APART OM TMP, SPLICG HEADL THAT AFFIRM HIS MMENT TO STRIPPG THE LGBTQ+ MUNY OF THEIR RIGHTS. THE VIO OF DESANTIS NTAS MULTIPLE CUTS TO MURRO, HYPER-MASCULE CHARACTERS OM FILM AND TELEVISN, CLUDG MURPHY PEAKY BLRS, BRAD PT TROY, AND CHRISTIAN BALE AMERIN PSYCHO. TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ON WEDNDAY, JULY 5, THE TEAM BEHD PEAKY BLRS MA CLEAR THAT THEY HAVE NOTHG TO DO WH DANTIS’S AD OR WH HIS POLIL BELIEFS. “ON BEHALF OF THE PARTNERS OF PEAKY BLRS—STEVEN KNIGHT, CILLIAN MURPHY, CARYN MANDABACH PRODUCTNS, TIGER ASPECT PRODUCTNS AND BANIJAY RIGHTS—WE NFIRM THE FOOTAGE OF TOMMY SHELBY’S CHARACTER ED WH THE VIO POSTED BY RON DESANTIS’ MPAIGN WAS OBTAED WHOUT PERMISSN OF OFFICIAL LICENSE,” READS A TWEET OM THE SHOW’S OFFICIAL ACUNT. “WE DO NOT SUPPORT NOR ENDORSE THE VIO’S NARRATIVE AND STRONGLY DISAPPROVE OF THE E OF THE NTENT THIS MANNER.”THIS IS FAR OM THE FIRST TIME AN AD MPAIGN HAS BEEN LLED OUT FOR G AN ARTIST’S WORK WHOUT PERMISSN, OFTEN TAKG OUT OF NTEXT TO SUPPORT A POLICIAN OR E. A PLETHORA OF MICIANS AND BANDS, CLUDG BUT NOT LIMED TO ALE, AXL ROSE, THE BEATL, BCE SPRGSTEEN, NICKELBACK, THE ROLLG STON, RIHANNA, QUEEN, TOM PETTY, AND THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, HAVE VOICED THEIR OPPOSN TO TMP G THEIR MIC AT HIS MPAIGN RALLI AND HIS MPAIGN ADS, WH MANY TAKG STEPS TO LEGALLY FORBID THE FORMER PRINT OM G THEIR MIC. LAST MONTH, MATT DAMON AND BEN AFFLECK’S PRODUCTN PANY, ARTISTS EQUY, ALSO SLAMMED TMP FOR G D OF DAMON OM S MOVIE AIR A MPAIGN AD, SAYG THE PANY “HAD NO FOREKNOWLEDGE AND DID NOT NSENT” TO TMP’S E OF THE CLIP. AND WHEN THE NRA SHARED A CLIP OF AMY POEHLER’S BELOVED LLIE KNOPE OM PARKS AND RECREATN ON TWTER 2018, THE EDIAN FOUND A WAY TO VOICE HER DISAPPROVAL SPE THE FACT THAT SHE IS NOT ON TWTER. “CAN YOU TWEET THE NRA FOR ME AND TELL THEM I SAID FUCK OFF?” SHE TEXTED PARKS AND RECREATN CREATOR MICHAEL SCHUR, WHO DID JT THAT. MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CHRIS MURPHY

Ron DeSantis stemmg om legislatn he signed that prohibs teachers om discsg sexual orientatn and genr inty class, known by crics as “Don’t Say Gay. Although Target was actg to protect employe, some rporate marketg experts say the pany’s rponse uld emboln gay and transgenr rights opponents to target other brands. “Includg our muny marketg is nothg new, but what is new is the extreme right-wg policizatn of a pany’s creative and bs cisns, ” Sarah Kate Ellis, print of the NGO Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), said a statement to TIME.

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. "This is a mpaign that's extremely homophobic, " Caraballo said.

DESANTIS’S NEW ANTI-LGBTQ+ AD DRAWS CONCERN AMONG GAY AND TRANS REPUBLINS

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. "But you know, there's been onle acunts like 'Gays agast Groomers' phg this stuff and beg ed as a pretext to spread homophobia.