The absurd claim that Tmp is the ‘most pro-gay print Amerin history’ - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• 10 TMP QUOT ABOUT LGBT FAI THAT EXPLA HOW CONFED HE IS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
• WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
• DONALD TMP’S MORE ACCEPTG VIEWS ON GAY ISSU SET HIM APART G.O.P.
• THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
• 7. ON MOZILLA CEO BRENDAN EICH STEPPG DOWN BEE OF HIS SUPPORT FOR PROPOSN 8

10 TMP QUOT ABOUT LGBT FAI THAT EXPLA HOW CONFED HE IS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE

In the heat of the ragg polil battle for the Whe Hoe, GOP prumptive ndidate Donald Tmp has had plenty to say about the lg and how the untry would approach the issue of gay marriage if he is elected the fall. He employs gay people, attends gay weddgs, and said Kentucky clerk Kim Davis was wrong for refg to certify marriag followg the SCOTUS cisn a year ago.

On why beg gay is a lot like golf Matthew Stockman/Getty Imag Sport/Getty Imag"A lot of people — I don’t want this to sound trivial — but a lot of people are swchg to the really long putters, very unattractive, " he said, acrdg to the New York Tim 2011. That’s the first day that civil partnerships between gay upl beme legal England unr the new Civil Partnerships Act…I know both of them and they get along wonrfully. Reactn to Orlando shootgAfter 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, Tmp said that was an example of how his more targeted immigratn polici agast Mlims would help protect the LGBT mentned how his polici would help the LGBT muny, nnectg their protectns to the fight agast ISIS and terrorism, argug that he would be more forceful on the issue than his opponent Hillary Clton.

Evan Vucci/APBefore his official nIn 2000, when Tmp publicly toyed wh — and later dismissed — the ia of a printial n that year, he was terviewed by The Advote, an LGBT he was not specifilly asked about transgenr Amerins' servg the ary, he said he would be supportive of gay people servg the ary.

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.

Sce takg office, dozens, if not hundreds, of cisns have been ma that make life materially worse for queer Amerins, not to mentn for tersectg and ally his opposn to life-savg legislatn like the Affordable Care Act to his appotment of homophobic judg, as well as symbolic acts like the banng of rabow flags at U. Jt the last year, those appote have clud Steven Menashi, who opposed marriage equaly; Lawrence Van Dyke, who said that allowg same-sex upl to marry would harm children; and Chad Readler, who was volved numero homophobic iativ at the Department of Jtice unr Mike Republin strategy for years has been to block nome om Print Obama and then bber-stamp nome om Tmp. Many of those judg are associated wh the homophobic Feralist Society, which par same-sex marriage to appotment of the judg is particularly dangero bee many civil rights victori for the LGBTQ+ muny have been won through ligatn, datg all the way back to the One, Inc.

Nondiscrimatn, sexual eedom, marriage, and accs to public acmodatns have all been nsired by feral urts, and now more homophobic judg than ever uld hear challeng to those precents.

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

Equal Employment and Opportuny Commissn — the urt found that “ is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex. Well before his 2016 n for print, he said that he wanted gay people to have the same legal protectn — and then 2016, he told Fox News that he would nsir appotg a Supreme Court Jtice who didn't support same-sex marriage.

1When He Supported Protectg Gay Rights Mark Wilson/Getty Imag News/Getty ImagWhen Tmp was toyg wh a n for print 2000, he gave an terview to The Advote which he profsed a great support for the rights of gays and lbians — even gog so far as to say that he supported amendg the 1964 Civil Rights act to clu a provisn banng discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn. Navy/Getty Imag News/Getty ImagIn the same terview, he exprsed support for gay men servg the armed forc, although he didn't say anythg about transgenr service members specifilly. "3When He Insisted "There Can Be No Discrimatn" Agast Gay PeopleStt Olson/Getty Imag News/Getty Imag4When He Called For More Protectns For LGBTQ People After The Orlando ShootgDrew Angerer/Getty Imag News/Getty ImagWhen Tmp gave a speech rponse to the tragic shootg Orlando at a gay nightclub, he promised to protect LGBTQ Amerins, sayg that "Ameri mt do more — much more — to protect s cizens, pecially people who are potential victims of crim based on their backgrounds or sexual orientatn.

" As you might have gathered, though, he was g his profsed support of the LGBTQ muny orr to ll for a Mlim ban, bee the shooter Orlando was a Mlim who targeted a gay club. 5When He Called Himself A "Real Friend"Drew Angerer/Getty Imag News/Getty ImagIn another part of his rponse to the Orlando shootg, he posned himself agast Hillary Clton as a "real iend" of the gay and lbian muny. Clton, he claimed, uld not really ll herself a supporter of LGBT rights as long as she also "[supported] immigratn polici that brg Islamic extremists to our untry and who supprs women, gays and anyone else who don't share their views or valu.

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

Vice Print Mike Pence has an extremely anti-gay rerd, Tmp Supreme Court nomee Neil Gorsuch is no supporter of LGBTQ rights, and the ia of protectg transgenr Amerins seems to be a thg of the past.

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

One month after the June 2016 shootg at the gay nightclub Pulse, Tmp promised durg his lengthy speech at the Republin Natnal Conventn to protect the targeted LGBTQ muny om Islamic Terrorism. The Jtice Department ma an unexpected move last July when stepped to a major feral lawsu to argue the Civil Rights Act of 1964 don’t protect gay workers om discrimatn. ”He not only picked an openly gay man, Richard Grenell, to be the Amerin ambassador to Germany but also reportedly moons over Grenell’s good looks.

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.

7. ON MOZILLA CEO BRENDAN EICH STEPPG DOWN BEE OF HIS SUPPORT FOR PROPOSN 8

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.