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.
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WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
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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. As Poli scribed the ftivi, the event was a “joyo celebratn of gay rights and — a se of ironic timg — the historic same-sex marriage law signed by Print Joe Bin days earlier.
” Tmp himself livered “an enthiastic affirmatn of gay rights, ” Poli ntued. Said Tmp, “We are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard. The vio opens wh a clip of then-ndidate Tmp pledgg to "do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens" a speech at the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn, jt weeks after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay club Orlando.
What crics are sayg The Log Cab Republins, an anizatn that advot for LGBTQ nservativ, said a Twter thread that DeSantis' rhetoric had "ventured to homophobic terrory, " llg "divisive and sperate.
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"I mean, the ad smacked of both homophobia and homoeroticism at the same time. Richard Grenell, Tmp's former actg director of natnal telligence — and the first openly gay Cabet member — lled the vio "unniably homophobic. " Christa Phaw, the rapid rponse director for DeSantis' mpaign, rpond a tweet that opposg the feral regnn of Pri Month is not homophobic.
Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg — the first openly gay Cabet member to be approved by the Senate — allud to DeSantis "tryg to prove his manhood, " and asked who he is aimg to help.
DeSantis — who said while mpaigng for ernor 2018 that "gettg to bathroom wars, I don't thk that's a good e of our time" — has taken a more hardle stance recent years, signg a slew of bills that roll back protectns for gay and transgenr dividuals. Last March he signed a bill that crics have brand "Don't Say Gay, " which bans public school teachers om holdg classroom stctn about sexual orientatn or genr inty. "It mak me sad bee I thk somethg like 70% of the Amerin public supports gay marriage, " she said.