Sce Dan Zwonzer first joed the Wyomg Hoe 2005, at least six bills targetg gay and transgenr people have been feated.
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- MEET THE GAY REPUBLIN WHO HELPED FEAT EVERY ANTI-LGBTQ BILL WYOMG
- COLUMN: THK ‘GAY REPUBLIN’ IS A NTRADICTN? THK AGA
MEET THE GAY REPUBLIN WHO HELPED FEAT EVERY ANTI-LGBTQ BILL WYOMG
Republin and LGBTThe Republin Party platform may not be as embracg of LGBT equaly as many would like — many would say 's embracg of equaly — but gay Republins see progrs party clivens.
Silin Valley billnaire Peter Thiel, a gay man, gets a prime time speakg slot Thursday, markg the first time 16 years that an openly gay man tak the stage at the GOP’s granst party. Sce he took office 2005, openly gay Republin Dan Zwonzer, 41, has succsfully orchtrated efforts to feat at least six anti-LGBTQ bills troduced the Wyomg Legislature, many of which would have set lims on same-sex marriag, and he has been a powerful polil voice behalf of gay Wyomg. ""You know, one of my kids was unfortable havg two gay dads for the first six months he was wh , and now he's like, 'Oh, my iends thk 's so ol.
COLUMN: THK ‘GAY REPUBLIN’ IS A NTRADICTN? THK AGA
My iends want to meet you, '" he the state notor for the 1998 murr of Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt who was btally beaten by two men and left for ad near Laramie, attus have shifted toward acceptance, Zwonzer, Wyomg has yet to pass any statewi legislatn protectg LGBTQ rints, although the cy of Laramie, where Shepard was a stunt at the Universy of Wyomg, passed an anti-discrimatn ordance 2015 that prohibs discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty employment, hog and accs to public recent years, Republin lawmakers troduced several anti-transgenr bills, cludg at least one so-lled bathroom bill that would have penalized trans people for g public acmodatns matchg their genr inti, but they were "ad on arrival, " Zwonzer said.