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.
Contents:
- WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
- GAY VOTERS SHARE WHY THEY ARE VOTG FOR PRINT TMP
- TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER
- DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
- TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
The print's LGBTQ supporters say that the Tmp admistratn has ma gay rights a "non-issue, " cg his iendships wh gay men and his appotment of at least two openly gay feral judg. Tmp pick and former Actg Director of Natnal Intelligence Richard Grennell claimed Tmp is the "most pro-gay print history" a mpaign ad released on Twter Augt.
Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay Filipo-Amerin judge also selected by Tmp, was nfirmed to the US Court of Appeals for the Nth Circu December 2019.
GAY VOTERS SHARE WHY THEY ARE VOTG FOR PRINT TMP
Democrats are g their nventn this week to tout their agenda for the next four years, cludg their promise to stand up for the lbian and gay muny. For years, Democratic Party lears have taken for granted the lbian and gay muny — along wh other mory muni — thkg they had no where else to turn.
As one of the Republin Natnal Commtee's first openly gay members, and a longtime lear of Log Cab Republins, I've worked tirelsly alongsi many iends and lleagu to pull the party to the future. Through his philanthropic work over the years wh chari batg the AIDS crisis, his prev support of amendg the 1964 Civil Rights Act to clu a ban on discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, and his early support of gay upl havg the same rights and protectns as straight upl, Tmp was an ally long before he was print.
He is likely even the first private club owner Palm Beach, Florida, to adm an openly gay didn’t abandon the prcipl when he assumed his posn behd the Rolute Dk.
TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER
The Tmp plan is foced on muni most need and has received support om those who have been volved the fight agast HIV/ siar fashn, Tmp announced durg Pri Month 2019 that his admistratn was lnchg a global mpaign to end the crimalizatn of homosexualy. In ordatn wh the Uned Natns, the European Unn and other human rights anizatns, the mpaign’s goal is to prsure natns to endg homophobic laws, securg the safety and eedom of all LGBT dividuals throughout the world. Actns speak lour than wordsMary Rowland, a member of the Lbian & Gay Bar Associatn of Chigo, was nfirmed 2019 as a feral district judge for the U.
The acplishments should not suggt the print's work is beg elected print, Donald Tmp supported amendg the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clu sexual orientatn; his admistratn's ristance to protectg gay, lbian and transgenr employe om discrimatn the workplace the recent Supreme Court se was th disappotg. Robert Kabel is the chairman of Log Cab Republins and thor of "Insi and Out: The Odyssey of a Gay Conservative, " which will be published Sept.
DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
"My Admistratn has lnched a global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy and ve all natns to jo this effort!, " the print poted to his admistratn's efforts to crimalize homosexualy worldwi that are beg led by the U. "As your print, I will do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens om the vlence and opprsn of a hateful foreign iology, " Tmp said at the the two and a half years sce Tmp was gurated, he has taken steps to curtail LGBTQ rights, om nomatg judg aligned wh anti-gay hate groups to banng transgenr people om the Pri Month was tablished by Clton June 1999, though back then was lled Gay and Lbian Pri Month.
"Today, more openly gay and lbian dividuals serve senr posts throughout the Feral Government than durg any other Admistratn, " Clton's June 2000 proclamatn cled to regnize June as Pri Month, and was not until the electn of Barack Obama that the tradn started aga.
"Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month, we celebrate the proud legacy LGBT dividuals have woven to the fabric of our Natn, we honor those who have fought to perfect our Unn, and we ntue our work to build a society where every child grows up knowg that their untry supports them, is proud of them, and has a place for them exactly as they are. There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay. Hedge fund billnaire and Republin donor Pl Sger quietly donated to pro-gay rights and formed the Amerin Uny PAC and Amerin Uny Fund, which fights for LGBTQ and relig eedom. A smopolan md bs person, Tmp did not prrize LGBTQ issu durg his mpaign and, fact, ma overt appeals to gay voters, though not by pledgg support for laws to protect them.
“For the first time we got to walk to the race wh a ndidate we didn’t have to apologize for or expla away his reluctance to embrace the gay muny. Probably Reagan was the last ndidate where we were like ‘this ndidate has gay iends, ’” said Charl Moran, spokperson for Log Cab Republins, a LGBTQ GOP group. “Donald Tmp’s embrace of people who are LGBT tly did help make OK to be an out, gay Republin, ” said former Whe Hoe puty prs secretary Judd Deere.
TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
“As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships. He beme what he lled an “aggrsive liberal activist, ” makg pamphlets about gay rights that he left on rs and at Greene found his liberal peers dismissive and unfivg, he said.
They see Tmp’s rollback of LGBTQ rights as part of a larger regulatn mpaign to lim the powers of the feral ernment, not as a targeted attack on gay and transgenr rights. While he says there is a difference between genr inty and sexual orientatn, he se trans issu as herently nnected to lbian, gay and bisexual issu.