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Contents:

• DONALD TMP TOLD MIKE PENCE GAY PEOPLE 'LOVE ME'—BOOK
• PENCE SWEARS TMP’S MOST PROMENT OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL
• TMP JOKED PENCE ‘WANTS TO HANG’ ALL GAY PEOPLE, NEW YORKER REPORTS
• TMP REPORTEDLY JOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE WANTG TO 'HANG' GAYS
• DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
• DONALD TMP MOCKS MIKE PENCE FOR WANTG TO 'HANG ALL GAY PEOPLE'
• DID MIKE PENCE SAY HE WANTS TO 'HANG' GAY PEOPLE?
• TMP VICTORY ALARMS GAY AND TRANSGENR GROUPS
• TMP'S VP PICK RANKL REPUBLIN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
• MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE

DONALD TMP TOLD MIKE PENCE GAY PEOPLE 'LOVE ME'—BOOK

Former Print Donald Tmp told Mike Pence that gay people love him, acrdg to a new book by The New York Tim' Maggie Haberman's book, Confince Man: The Makg of Donald Tmp and the Breakg of Ameri, she tailed Tmp's behavr and actns throughout his one particular extract, on page 299, she tailed the nversatn Tmp had wh nservative donor and philanthropist Pl allegedly ma this statement when Pence attempted to leave the room after Sger revealed that he was favor of gay rights and had supported them as his son was the meetg, which took place as Tmp, Pence and his ais prepared the print for a prs nference, Tmp ma idle chat wh Sger, acrdg to the asked by Tmp "how nservative are you? " Sger allegedly replied that he was que nservative on enomic issu but more morate on other issu, such as gay also said he had been volved efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.

PENCE SWEARS TMP’S MOST PROMENT OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL

"[Tmp] add, 'the gays, they love me, ' notg that the le his nventn speech that received the most applse was a vow to 'protect our LGBTQ cizens om the vlence and opprsn of a hateful foreign iology"Tmp also allegedly asked Sger to jo him for the prs nference but Sger cled, sayg that he was a low-profile person and was headg back to New York of the book's release, Tmp took to his social media platform, Tth Social, to dub Haberman a "maggot""Maggot Hagerman [sic] of the Unfund Liabily plagued New York Tim is my self appoted Bgrapher, even though she got the Rsia, Rsia, Rsia Hoax & the Mueller Report ncln pletely wrong, & refed to wre about the FACT that the Democrats spied on my mpaign, Lied to Congrs, & Cheated and Lied to the FISA Court, " the former print was referrg to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's vtigatn to alleged lks between Tmp's 2016 printial mpaign and Rsia as well as the fact that two warrants obtaed to surveil former Tmp mpaign ai Carter Page were later emed to be valid bee the ernment ma "material misstatements" their effort to obta them. ]The month of June was filled wh big moments for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr that monthlong stretch, the Supreme Court renred a sweepg cisn providg workplace protectns for gay and transgenr people.

Tmp, who durg his 2016 printial mpaign ed gay people as a wedge agast Mlims, whom he pated broadly as extremists, followg the shootgs at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub by a Mlim man.

TMP JOKED PENCE ‘WANTS TO HANG’ ALL GAY PEOPLE, NEW YORKER REPORTS

Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr. Grenell referred to his own appotment, as well as to the print’s acceptance of the Supreme Court’s lg of gay marriage as nstutnal and his efforts to ph untri that crimalize beg gay to end those practic.

People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr.

TMP REPORTEDLY JOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE WANTG TO 'HANG' GAYS

Tmp’s embrace of iativ promotg relig eedom has been ed by people si and outsi his ernment to jtify discrimatn agast gay and transgenr Kelly/RtersOver many years, Mr. Tmp was qutned about whether he would nsir rcdg his ban on transgenr people enterg the ary by a reporter for The Washgton Bla, a gay Tmp gtured to his ch, appearg to signal the reporter’s mask was mufflg him. Diplomat reprentg Amerin terts Germany renewed his mment to the admistratn and his nfince Tmp and the vice print, spe Pence's perceived lack of support of LGBT rights and the wispread notn that he once supported so-lled gay nversn therapy, now wily a 2000 statement on his ngrsnal mpaign webse, Pence said, "Rourc should be directed toward those stutns which provi assistance to those seekg to change their sexual behavr.

Joked about Pence’s sire to hang LGBTQ people: In 2017, Tmp joked about Vice Print Pence’s anti-gay agenda sayg “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all! Tmp’s nng mate July, he has faced plats om groups cril of his rerd on gay and transgenr rights, who said he has long been an opponent of the gas ma by the L.

DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM

It has been discreded by the medil tablishment and nounced by gay and transgenr Pence’s spokman, Marc Lotter, nied to The Tim over the weekend that the vice print-elect supports the practice, sayg a past mpaign statement had been misterpreted. Groups rema skeptil, potg to his rerd of opposn to gay rights as a member of Congrs and as ernor of Indiana and an approvg reference to nversn therapy the 2016 Republin Party, what is nversn therapy, and why is Mr. ”Conversn therapy has been nmned by a range of groups, cludg the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, which said was based on the view that homosexualy is a disorr, an ia “that has been rejected by all the major mental health profsns.

”Brothers on a Road Ls Traveled, a support group for men who want to stop beg attracted to other men, said s method clus velopg “an ternal sense of masculy” and “disverg our te needs unrlyg some of our homosexual longgs and triggers.

DONALD TMP MOCKS MIKE PENCE FOR WANTG TO 'HANG ALL GAY PEOPLE'

”There are equently relig overton to nversn therapy, which is often promoted by groups wh ti to nservative Christian anizatns like Foc on the Fay, which says on s webse that “homosexual stgglers” n “leave homosexualy” wh the help of support groups like Homosexuals Anonymo or by “beg more like J. ”Rece Prieb, the chairman of the Republin Party and the g Whe Hoe chief of staff, told reporters that the language did not refer to nversn therapy, but gay and transgenr groups did not believe him.

DID MIKE PENCE SAY HE WANTS TO 'HANG' GAY PEOPLE?

“One is ex-gay nversn therapy and the other is transgenr hormone therapy, and I hardly believe that Tony Perks was puttg a plank the Republin Party platform endorsg the rights of parents to provi their children wh transgenr hormone therapy. Print Donald Tmp once joked private that Mike Pence "wants to hang" gay people, acrdg to a profile of the vice print The New Yorker on story, cg two anonymo sourc, said Tmp enjoys needlg the nservative former Indiana ernor about his views on abortn and homosexualy and, when a nversatn wh an unnamed legal scholar turned to gay rights, the print motned to Pence and allegedly joked, "Don't ask that guy — he wants to hang them all!

In the wake of enormo backlash, Pence signed a "fix" that ma clear the state's RFRA uld not be ed by bs to discrimate agast LGBTQ the past, Pence has said gay upl "signaled societal llapse, " opposed the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell, " opposed a law prohibg discrimatn agast LGBTQ people the workplace and rejected Obama admistratn guidance on transgenr stunts beg able to e bathrooms that rrponds to their genr inty.

"As the world go mad, Florida reprents a refuge of sany and a cal of normalcy, " he said earlier this new DeSantis vio quickly drew bipartisan cricism om the LGBTQ Tmp adviser and ambassador Richard Grenell, who is gay, wrote on Twter that the vio was "unniably homophobic. ""Conservativ unrstand that we need to protect our kids, prerve women's sports, safeguard women's spac and strengthen parental rights, but Ron DeSantis' extreme rhetoric go has jt ventured to homophobic terrory, " the group wrote on Twter. "A spokperson for DeSantis' mpaign, Christa Phaw, rpond to Grennell's cricism on Twter, wrg on Friday: "Opposg the feral regnn of 'Pri Month' isn't 'homophobic.

TMP VICTORY ALARMS GAY AND TRANSGENR GROUPS

Donald Tmp lov remdg his unrlgs who is charge, and gets a kick out of jokg about Mike Pence's bigoted, anti-gay iologi to his are jt two exampl om an si look at the pair's relatnship, as well as the vice print's rise to the Whe Hoe, published a bombshell New Yorker article Monday morng. He also lled for an amendment to the nstutn 2005 that would have permanently ma marriage between a male and a woman exclively, claimg gay marriage would lead to "societal llapse. As an illtratn of differenc their views on social issu, the piece reunted a meetg between Tmp, Pence, and a legal scholar which Tmp allegedly “joked” that Pence wants to “hang” homosexuals:.

Regardls of the specific cint discsed the New Yorker piece, Vice Print Pence has, his actns and statements, shown himself to be hostile to gay rights durg his reer as a polician, as noted a 2016 New York Tim overview:. Pence opposed gay marriage and signed to law a bill that ma legal for bs to ce relig eedom when refg service to gay and transgenr people, for example a bakery that refed to bake a ke for a same-sex weddg. His opposn to gay rights go back at least to his first ngrsnal mpaign, 2000, when he opposed same-sex marriage and the nondiscrimatn laws that protected LGBT people.

TMP'S VP PICK RANKL REPUBLIN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

Embassy is flyg LGBT activists om across Europe for a strategy dner to plan to ph for crimalizatn plac that still outlaw homosexualy — mostly ncentrated the Middle East, Ai and the Caribbean. Although the crimalizatn strategy is still beg hashed out, officials say ’s likely to clu workg wh global anizatns like the Uned Natns, the European Unn and the Organizatn for Secury and Cooperatn Europe, as well as other untri whose laws already allow for gay rights. Narrowly foced on crimalizatn, rather than broar LGBT issu like same-sex marriage, the mpaign was nceived partly rponse to the recent reported executn by hangg of a young gay man Iran, the Tmp admistratn’s top geopolil foe.

Ti: the Arab Sdi Arabia, whose monarchy Tmp has stnchly fend the face of human rights allegatns, homosexualy n be punishable by ath, acrdg to a 2017 worldwi report om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA). The report intified 72 natns that still crimalize homosexualy, cludg eight where ’s punishable by list clus the Uned Arab Emirat, Pakistan and Afghanistan — all U.

MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE

But any mpaign to crimalize homosexualy would ostensibly also have to ll out Oman, where prison sentenc n be hand out for beg ph to end laws that outlaw homosexualy abroad also stands ntrast to the Tmp admistratn’s mixed rerd on gay rights at a ndidate, Tmp was ambiguo about his posn on many gay rights issu, but notably beme the first Republin nomee to mentn LGBT rights his acceptance speech at the Republin Natnal Conventn.

His nventn also featured another first: PayPal founr Peter Thiel beme the first gay person to acknowledge his sexualy a speech to the GOP nventn, clarg he was “proud to be gay. But sce he took office, his admistratn has sled back some workplace protectns for gay people and has argued urt that a feral anti-discrimatn law don’t protect gay employe.