After Donald Tmp Said 'Ask The Gays,' The LGBTQ Communy Rponds #AskTheGays : NPR

Contents:

• 'ASK THE GAYS' IS THE BT TWTER MEME DONALD TMP NEVER WANTED
• #MEMEOFTHEWEEK: TMP ASKED 'THE GAYS,' AND GOT ANSWERS
• WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• VIO OF TMP SAYG 'WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY GAY' VIEWED 1M TIM
• 'LGBT' FLYERS — PICTURG LADY LIBERTY, GUN, BEER AND TMP — SENT TO NASHVILLE GAY BARS
• 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 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)MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERJACK MCCORDICK
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SPONSOR DOUBL DOWN ON OUTG LGBTQ CHILDREN TO PARENTS WH NEW AMENDMENTPUBLISHED 2 YEARS AGO ON FEBARY 21, 2022BY DAVID BADASH THE SPONSOR OF FLORIDA’S HIGHLY NTROVERSIAL AND DANGERO “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL IS DOUBLG DOWN ON THE “OUTG” PROVISN OF HIS LEGISLATN, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO GET A VOTE BY THE FULL HOE TUDAY.GOP STATE REP JOE HARDG HAS ADD A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO HIS OWN BILL, FLORIDA POLICS REPORTS. HARDG IS A HMAN LAWMAKER WHO HAS NO BACKGROUND TN, CHILD VELOPMENT, OR LGBTQ ISSU.CURRENTLY, HB 1557 SAYS TEACHERS, ADMISTRATORS, AND OTHER STAFF MT NTACT PARENTS ABOUT A STUNT’S “MENTAL, EMOTNAL, OR PHYSIL HEALTH OR WELL-BEG, OR A CHANGE RELATED SERVIC OR MONORG.” MEANG SCHOOLS MT TELL PARENTS IF THEIR CHILD OUT AS LGBTQ AT SCHOOL.IF THEY DON’T, THE BILL SAYS, PARENTS N SUE.THERE IS CURRENTLY ONE PROVISN TO PROTECT AT-RISK CHILDREN, SCHOOLS N OPT TO NOT RM PARENTS, “IF A REASONABLY PNT PERSON WOULD BELIEVE THAT DISCLOSURE WOULD RULT ABE, ABANDONMENT, OR NEGLECT.”OF THOSE WHO SEEK HELP, 40 PERCENT OF HOMELS YOUTH ARE LGBTQ, OFTEN AS A DIRECT RULT OF G OUT OR BEG OUTED TO THEIR PARENTS.REP. HARDG WOULD LIKE TO ENSURE THAT EHER PARENTS ARE TOLD THEIR CHILD HAS E OUT AS LGBTQ, OR – ACRDG TO HIS NEW AMENDMENT – IF THE SCHOOL HAS TERMED THEY SHOULD NOT BE TOLD BEE “A REASONABLY PNT PERSON WOULD BELIEVE THAT DISCLOSURE WOULD RULT ABE, ABANDONMENT, OR NEGLECT,” THE PARENTS WH SIX WEEKS OF NOT BEG TOLD MT BE NOTIFIED THAT THE SCHOOL HAS WHHELD RMATN OM THEM.NOT ONLY WILL THAT PUT SOME CHILDREN AT GREAT RISK, BUT WILL ALSO PUT SCHOOL OFFICIALS AT RISK.THE AMENDMENT SAYS SCHOOL OFFICIALS MT VISE A “PLAN” TO TELL PARENTS WHILE PROTECTG THE CHILD’S WELL-BEG, BUT DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY DITN OF WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, OR HOW TO AVOID LIKELY HOSTILY TO THE OFFICIAL AND LIKELY HARM TO THE CHILD.IMAGE THIS PHONE LL:“HELLO, MR. JON, THIS IS PRCIPAL SMH. WE HAVE RMATN RELATED TO YOUR CHILD’S MENTAL, EMOTNAL, OR PHYSIL HEALTH OR WELL-BEG BUT HAVE CID TO NOT DISCLOSE THAT RMATN TO YOU. HOWEVER, BY LAW, WE’RE REQUIRED TO RM YOU WE ARE WHHOLDG THIS RMATN. HAVE A NICE DAY.”IMAGE BY KRISSY VENOSDALE VIA FLICKR AND A CC LICENSE CONTUE READGANTI-LGBT EXTREMISMFORT LRDALE TO HONOR PASTOR WHOSE MISTRY APPEARS ON SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S ANTI-LGBT HATE GROUP LISTPUBLISHED 2 YEARS AGO ON MARCH 16, 2021BY DAVID BADASH FORT LRDALE, FLORIDA’S CY COMMISSNERS TUDAY EVENG WILL HONOR CORAL RIDGE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH, WTMSTER AMY. INCLUD THOSE PROCLAMATNS IS THE CHURCH’S FOUNR, DR. D. JAM KENNEDY, WHOSE D. JAM KENNEDY MISTRI APPEARS ON THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S LIST OF ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS.FORT LRDALE’S MAYOR, WHO IS ALSO S FIRST GAY MAYOR, DEAN TRANTALIS, WILL SIGN THE PROCLAMATNS MAKG MARCH 21, 2021 CORAL RIDGE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH DAY AND WTMSTER AMY DAY, AS SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS REPORTS.FLORIDA LGBTQ ACTIVIST MICHAEL RAJNER POSTED THE PROCLAMATNS:THE LATE MAYOR JT FLIPPEN WOULD BE TURNG HIS GRAVE. A FEW YEARS AGO HE SPOKE W/ @WSVN OF HIS TRMATIC EXPERIENCE TO UNRGO #NVERSNTHERAPY AT CORAL RIDGE. I HOPE DEAN TRANTALIS REFLECTS ON JT TOMORROW NIGHT WHILE HE SIGNS THE PROCLAMATN. @BROWARDPOLICS — MICHAEL RAJNER (@MICHAELRAJNER) MARCH 15, 2021A SEARCH OF THE D. JAM KENNEDY MISTRI WEBSE SHOWS HUNDREDS OF ARTICL ON HOMOSEXUALY. SOME OF THEM CLU “FREEDOM OM HOMOSEXUALY THROUGH THE GOSPEL,” “BRAZEN ATTACKS ON MARRIAGE,” AND “SEXUAL ANARCHY PUTS RELIG LIBERTY AT RISK.”TTH WS OUT, AN LGBT EQUALY NON-PROF, LLS THE PROCLAMATNS “NO DIFFERENT THAN HONORG THE KKK.”“IT’S OUTRAGEO TO HONOR CORAL RIDGE. IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN HONORG THE KKK. THIS CHURCH LIED ABOUT LGBT PEOPLE, PRODUCED HATE PROPAGANDA AND PERPETUATED THE “EX-GAY” HOAX. THEY HAVE NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR G LIV. STOP THIS MADNS!”TELL FORT LRDALE MAYOR @DEANTRANTALIS AND FTL MISSNERS TODAY THAT “NO APOLOGY, NO PROCLAMATN” HONORG CORAL RIDGE MISTRI. THIS CHURCH IS DIVISIVE AND PNEERED “EX-GAY” PROGRAMS. IT LED THE TTH LOVE “PRAY AWAY THE GAY” AD MPAIGN. — TTH WS OUT (@TTHWSOUT) MARCH 16, 2021TWO OFFERS SOME BACKGROUND TO KENNEDY AND CORAL RIDGE A PRS RELEASE:IN 1998, THE TTH LOVE CAMPAIGN WAS HATCHED AT CORAL RIDGE, LED BY JA FOLGER PORTER. THE $600,000 EFFORT PLACED FULL-PAGE ADS NEWSPAPERS WH “EX-GAYS” CLAIMG THAT GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE WHO PRAYED AND WENT TO NVERSN THERAPY ULD “CHANGE”. THIS RULTED AN AVALANCHE OF MEDIA VERAGE, CLUDG A NEWSWEEK VER STORY HEADLED, “GAY FOR LIFE?” DURG THAT MPAIGN, FOLGER PORTER SAID ON NIGHTLE THAT SHE SUPPORTED SODOMY LAWS THAT WOULD LEAD TO THE ARRT AND IMPRISONMENT OF LGBTQ PEOPLE. AS PART OF TTH LOVE, CORAL RIDGE FLEW AN AIRPLANE OVER GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WH LARGE BANNER THAT HAD AN “EX-GAY” MSAGE.REARCHER ALV MCEWEN POTS OUT THAT KENNEDY ALSO ENDORSED A HORRIFYG ANTI-LGBTQ RTOON BOOK, HOMOSEXUALY: LEGIMATE, ALTERNATIVE DEATHSTYLE. THE BOOK LIBELS LGBTQ PEOPLE WH FAKE STATISTICS, SUCH AS “41% MORE GAYS THAN HETEROSEXUALS ADMTED TO SHOPLIFTG!” CONTUE READGANTI-LGBT EXTREMISMTMP ADMISTRATN IS ATTEMPTG TO DISMANTLE HARD-WON PROTECTNS FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE, REPORT

'ASK THE GAYS' IS THE BT TWTER MEME DONALD TMP NEVER WANTED

Well, "ask the gays! "That's what the prumptive GOP nomee is sayg this week regardg Sdi Arabia, women, and the horrific massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando.

” said Tmp, on Monday, a speech regardg the Florida, he ntued his idtic statements on Wednday wh this: "Ask the gays, " he says. Ask the gays?! Well, the gays have answered.

Eric Gay/AP. After last week's mass shootg that killed 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, policians of all strip have been speakg out about the LGBTQ muny — argug what should be done to protect them, speakg to the importance of their safe spac, and pledgg mment to their needs.

#MEMEOFTHEWEEK: TMP ASKED 'THE GAYS,' AND GOT ANSWERS

"A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens bee of their sexual orientatn, " Tmp said.

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

While Tmp seemed to still be showg sympathy to gays and lbians, the livery was off for many watchg — his talk shifted om support for the muny to boastful pri.

"The LGBT muny, the gay muny, the lbian muny — they are so much favor of what I've been sayg over the last three or four days, " Tmp said durg a mpaign stop Atlanta on Wednday, fendg his tough talk on limg Mlim immigratn and fightg ISIS. "Ask the gays what they thk and what they do, , not only Sdi Arabia, but many of the untri, and then you tell me — who's your iend, Donald Tmp or Hillary Clton?

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

What stood out most, bis that prerly placed fe article, was the qutn: "Ask the gays.

" Well, the gays answered.

'LGBT' FLYERS — PICTURG LADY LIBERTY, GUN, BEER AND TMP — SENT TO NASHVILLE GAY BARS

It was an exercise Gay GIF (and V, and stills) Magic.

There was a certa power on display all the tweets, and the LGBTQ muny's abily to not jt speak for self, but to fd humor a paful week, when policians uld be seen as g gays and lbians as polil props. But there is also a more ser unrcurrent to #AskTheGays — how, why, and how quickly an entire group n bee polil footballs moments of such distrs. Tmp has spoken ls disparaggly of gays and lbians than he has of other mory and affy groups, though he has opposed issu like same-sex marriage.

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 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)MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERJACK MCCORDICK

But, a way, #AskTheGays was able to create a safe space onle a week where might have been particularly hard to fd those spac the real world or our polil disurse. Tmp was joed by Arizona’s 2022 GOP gubernatorial ndidate, Kari Lake, and an array of high profile “GayCons” (homosexual “nservativ”) cludg former Director of Natnal Intelligence Ric Grenell, a Tmp appotee, and equent Tucker Carlson gut mentator Chadwick Moore.

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SPONSOR DOUBL DOWN ON OUTG LGBTQ CHILDREN TO PARENTS WH NEW AMENDMENTPUBLISHED 2 YEARS AGO ON FEBARY 21, 2022BY DAVID BADASH THE SPONSOR OF FLORIDA’S HIGHLY NTROVERSIAL AND DANGERO “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL IS DOUBLG DOWN ON THE “OUTG” PROVISN OF HIS LEGISLATN, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO GET A VOTE BY THE FULL HOE TUDAY.GOP STATE REP JOE HARDG HAS ADD A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO HIS OWN BILL, FLORIDA POLICS REPORTS. HARDG IS A HMAN LAWMAKER WHO HAS NO BACKGROUND TN, CHILD VELOPMENT, OR LGBTQ ISSU.CURRENTLY, HB 1557 SAYS TEACHERS, ADMISTRATORS, AND OTHER STAFF MT NTACT PARENTS ABOUT A STUNT’S “MENTAL, EMOTNAL, OR PHYSIL HEALTH OR WELL-BEG, OR A CHANGE RELATED SERVIC OR MONORG.” MEANG SCHOOLS MT TELL PARENTS IF THEIR CHILD OUT AS LGBTQ AT SCHOOL.IF THEY DON’T, THE BILL SAYS, PARENTS N SUE.THERE IS CURRENTLY ONE PROVISN TO PROTECT AT-RISK CHILDREN, SCHOOLS N OPT TO NOT RM PARENTS, “IF A REASONABLY PNT PERSON WOULD BELIEVE THAT DISCLOSURE WOULD RULT ABE, ABANDONMENT, OR NEGLECT.”OF THOSE WHO SEEK HELP, 40 PERCENT OF HOMELS YOUTH ARE LGBTQ, OFTEN AS A DIRECT RULT OF G OUT OR BEG OUTED TO THEIR PARENTS.REP. HARDG WOULD LIKE TO ENSURE THAT EHER PARENTS ARE TOLD THEIR CHILD HAS E OUT AS LGBTQ, OR – ACRDG TO HIS NEW AMENDMENT – IF THE SCHOOL HAS TERMED THEY SHOULD NOT BE TOLD BEE “A REASONABLY PNT PERSON WOULD BELIEVE THAT DISCLOSURE WOULD RULT ABE, ABANDONMENT, OR NEGLECT,” THE PARENTS WH SIX WEEKS OF NOT BEG TOLD MT BE NOTIFIED THAT THE SCHOOL HAS WHHELD RMATN OM THEM.NOT ONLY WILL THAT PUT SOME CHILDREN AT GREAT RISK, BUT WILL ALSO PUT SCHOOL OFFICIALS AT RISK.THE AMENDMENT SAYS SCHOOL OFFICIALS MT VISE A “PLAN” TO TELL PARENTS WHILE PROTECTG THE CHILD’S WELL-BEG, BUT DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY DITN OF WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, OR HOW TO AVOID LIKELY HOSTILY TO THE OFFICIAL AND LIKELY HARM TO THE CHILD.IMAGE THIS PHONE LL:“HELLO, MR. JON, THIS IS PRCIPAL SMH. WE HAVE RMATN RELATED TO YOUR CHILD’S MENTAL, EMOTNAL, OR PHYSIL HEALTH OR WELL-BEG BUT HAVE CID TO NOT DISCLOSE THAT RMATN TO YOU. HOWEVER, BY LAW, WE’RE REQUIRED TO RM YOU WE ARE WHHOLDG THIS RMATN. HAVE A NICE DAY.”IMAGE BY KRISSY VENOSDALE VIA FLICKR AND A CC LICENSE CONTUE READGANTI-LGBT EXTREMISMFORT LRDALE TO HONOR PASTOR WHOSE MISTRY APPEARS ON SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S ANTI-LGBT HATE GROUP LISTPUBLISHED 2 YEARS AGO ON MARCH 16, 2021BY DAVID BADASH FORT LRDALE, FLORIDA’S CY COMMISSNERS TUDAY EVENG WILL HONOR CORAL RIDGE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH, WTMSTER AMY. INCLUD THOSE PROCLAMATNS IS THE CHURCH’S FOUNR, DR. D. JAM KENNEDY, WHOSE D. JAM KENNEDY MISTRI APPEARS ON THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S LIST OF ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS.FORT LRDALE’S MAYOR, WHO IS ALSO S FIRST GAY MAYOR, DEAN TRANTALIS, WILL SIGN THE PROCLAMATNS MAKG MARCH 21, 2021 CORAL RIDGE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH DAY AND WTMSTER AMY DAY, AS SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS REPORTS.FLORIDA LGBTQ ACTIVIST MICHAEL RAJNER POSTED THE PROCLAMATNS:THE LATE MAYOR JT FLIPPEN WOULD BE TURNG HIS GRAVE. A FEW YEARS AGO HE SPOKE W/ @WSVN OF HIS TRMATIC EXPERIENCE TO UNRGO #NVERSNTHERAPY AT CORAL RIDGE. I HOPE DEAN TRANTALIS REFLECTS ON JT TOMORROW NIGHT WHILE HE SIGNS THE PROCLAMATN. @BROWARDPOLICS — MICHAEL RAJNER (@MICHAELRAJNER) MARCH 15, 2021A SEARCH OF THE D. JAM KENNEDY MISTRI WEBSE SHOWS HUNDREDS OF ARTICL ON HOMOSEXUALY. SOME OF THEM CLU “FREEDOM OM HOMOSEXUALY THROUGH THE GOSPEL,” “BRAZEN ATTACKS ON MARRIAGE,” AND “SEXUAL ANARCHY PUTS RELIG LIBERTY AT RISK.”TTH WS OUT, AN LGBT EQUALY NON-PROF, LLS THE PROCLAMATNS “NO DIFFERENT THAN HONORG THE KKK.”“IT’S OUTRAGEO TO HONOR CORAL RIDGE. IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN HONORG THE KKK. THIS CHURCH LIED ABOUT LGBT PEOPLE, PRODUCED HATE PROPAGANDA AND PERPETUATED THE “EX-GAY” HOAX. THEY HAVE NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR G LIV. STOP THIS MADNS!”TELL FORT LRDALE MAYOR @DEANTRANTALIS AND FTL MISSNERS TODAY THAT “NO APOLOGY, NO PROCLAMATN” HONORG CORAL RIDGE MISTRI. THIS CHURCH IS DIVISIVE AND PNEERED “EX-GAY” PROGRAMS. IT LED THE TTH LOVE “PRAY AWAY THE GAY” AD MPAIGN. — TTH WS OUT (@TTHWSOUT) MARCH 16, 2021TWO OFFERS SOME BACKGROUND TO KENNEDY AND CORAL RIDGE A PRS RELEASE:IN 1998, THE TTH LOVE CAMPAIGN WAS HATCHED AT CORAL RIDGE, LED BY JA FOLGER PORTER. THE $600,000 EFFORT PLACED FULL-PAGE ADS NEWSPAPERS WH “EX-GAYS” CLAIMG THAT GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE WHO PRAYED AND WENT TO NVERSN THERAPY ULD “CHANGE”. THIS RULTED AN AVALANCHE OF MEDIA VERAGE, CLUDG A NEWSWEEK VER STORY HEADLED, “GAY FOR LIFE?” DURG THAT MPAIGN, FOLGER PORTER SAID ON NIGHTLE THAT SHE SUPPORTED SODOMY LAWS THAT WOULD LEAD TO THE ARRT AND IMPRISONMENT OF LGBTQ PEOPLE. AS PART OF TTH LOVE, CORAL RIDGE FLEW AN AIRPLANE OVER GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WH LARGE BANNER THAT HAD AN “EX-GAY” MSAGE.REARCHER ALV MCEWEN POTS OUT THAT KENNEDY ALSO ENDORSED A HORRIFYG ANTI-LGBTQ RTOON BOOK, HOMOSEXUALY: LEGIMATE, ALTERNATIVE DEATHSTYLE. THE BOOK LIBELS LGBTQ PEOPLE WH FAKE STATISTICS, SUCH AS “41% MORE GAYS THAN HETEROSEXUALS ADMTED TO SHOPLIFTG!” CONTUE READGANTI-LGBT EXTREMISMTMP ADMISTRATN IS ATTEMPTG TO DISMANTLE HARD-WON PROTECTNS FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE, REPORT

And stead of ngratulatg the 500 or so “GayCons” gathered Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom, Tmp and Lake should’ve asked the men and women to show that they tly are nservativ by affirmg the immutable fn of marriage – as njugal and plementary – and repudiatg RMA.

Although Tmp reportedly did not mentn the new law his speech, he did proclaim, “We are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard.