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:
- THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
- TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER
- WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
WisemanJune 22, 2019I’ll never buy Donald Tmp as gay posive.
But I’d bet on gay blasé. ”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. Take the Tmp admistratn out of the equatn and the march toward gay equaly ntu apace.
TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER
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. A Supreme Court lg legalized natnwi gay, Buttigieg said, hasn’t been any impediment to his bid for the Whe Hoe so far. That same month Jared Polis Colorado beme the first openly gay person to w a ernorship.
”In Chigo April, Lori Lightfoot beme the first openly gay person to w the mayoralty of one of the untry’s three most-populo ci. 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.
Tmp has nomated and the Senate has nfirmed many jurists wh explic, unabashed hostily to gay and transgenr rights, cludg, jt days ago, Matthew Kacsmaryk, who received a lifetime appotment as a Uned Stat district judge for the Northern District of Texas. This is a man who 2015 wrote that gay rights were part of a sexual revolutn that was “rooted the soil of elist postmorn philosophy” and “sought public affirmatn of the lie that the human person is an tonomo blob of Silly Putty unnstraed by nature or blogy, and that marriage, sexualy, genr inty and even the unborn child mt yield to the erotic sir of liberated adults. Tmp’s relatively benign ments before beg elected did nothg to prepare Mter for the ban on openly transgenr people the ary and for his admistratn’s edicts, efforts or clared tentns to elimate protectns for transgenr people the Affordable Care Act, allow health re workers to ce relig beliefs refg to treat gay or transgenr people, let ferally fund hog shelters ny accs to transgenr people, make easier for adoptn agenci to turn away same-sex upl and more.
WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
”But the ntributns Tmp is foced on are the vot and donatns om the so-lled relig right, given gratu for his opposn to abortn and his anti-gay actns. @FrankBni • Facebook A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn SR, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: The Gay Tth About Tmp.
AdvertisementSKIP Mills/The New York TimJune 1, 2019WASHINGTON — Print Tmp has said that his admistratn would lead an effort to crimalize homosexualy around the world, elicg nmnatn om activists who poted to the admistratn’s mov to dismantle protectns for gay, bisexual and transgenr admistratn also stood “ solidary wh the many LGBT people who live dozens of untri worldwi that punish, imprison, or even execute dividuals on the basis of their sexual orientatn, ” Mr. In remarks that were circulated a day later as an official statement om the Whe Hoe, he add, “My Admistratn has lnched a global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy and v all natns to jo this effort! Tmp stood out a crowd nservative field for his parative acceptance of gay marriage as well as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights.
Tmp has also appoted two Supreme Court jtic whom advot see as hostile to gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals. A tt to the newly reorred urt was troduced this sprg, when the Supreme Court said would exame three s to terme if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 guaranteed workplace protectns to gay and transgenr people; the Tmp admistratn has argued that do, the print’s supporters praised him for beg the first Republin print to go so far acknowledgg the L. “He’s the first print to start as print for approvg of gay marriage, ” Ms.