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- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- POMPERG ALUM MAXEN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL ACH
- HOW OUT OF STEP IS THE REPUBLIN PARTY ON GAY RIGHTS?
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- SHE’S GAY AND A REPUBLIN. IS THERE A PLACE FOR HER THE G.O.P.?
- AFTER ROE, REPUBLINS SHARPEN ATTACKS ON GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS
- WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY
- WHAT IT’S LIKE FOR SOME GAY MEN TO COME OUT AS REPUBLIN
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * republican and gay *
Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat.
The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.
More about Sheryl Gay StolbergA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 15 of the New York edn wh the headle: Virologists Deny to Panel That Fci Swayed Report Agast Lab Leak Theory. Though his fay nied , McKney was long mored to be gay or to McKney, the first two out — and not by choice — gay members of Congrs were Republins, and both left unr a swirl of ntroversy and crimal activy. The only difference is that Gee Santos was first elected as an out gay unrstand why there has not been more of an effort to field LGBTQ+ ndidat and why the party still hasn’t ma headway wh queer voters, ’s important to note that the GOP ma anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and polici an unofficial (and later official) rnerstone of s platform for four s.
POMPERG ALUM MAXEN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL ACH
There is a vol ntgency of social nservativ wh the Republin Party that are active enough to ot a stg ngrsman over his support for gay rights, the same week that the Supreme Court took a historic step to expand them. * republican and gay *
Bee overwhelmgly affected gay men, Reagan, who had gay iends Hollywood, stayed away om mentng AIDS and s Kirchick, the thor of Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, says the tersectn of gay inty and AIDS for Republins likely started wh the Beltway, when Republin operative Terry Dolan, the founr and chairman of the Natnal Conservative Polil Actn Commtee, died of HIV-related plitns December of 1986. “Of all the many gay men workg the Reagan admistratn and nservative movement durg the 1980s, none more vividly exposed the punishg ntradictns of their prer existence than Terry Dolan, ” Kirchick wr. But the early years of AIDS, the stark differenc between the two parti’ attus towards the disease and gay men began to appear, as Democrats had posns on sex tn, fundg, and treatg the disease which were opposed by Republins, ” Kirchick offers.
6, which was known as the Briggs Iniative, that basilly said if you were a school employee or a teacher, you uld be fired for beg gay, ” Karger GOP printial ndidate Fred Karger (right) wh former Hoe Speaker Newt Ggrich (Getty Imag)Karger and Roberts nvced polil nsultant Peter Hannaford to ask his close iend Reagan to oppose the ballot measure.
HOW OUT OF STEP IS THE REPUBLIN PARTY ON GAY RIGHTS?
Behd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G.O.P. senators that embracg was a polil wner. * republican and gay *
Frank, by then retired om Congrs, told the Washgton Bla a 2018 terview that he asked Bh to rcd the le put place unr Print Eisenhower that said gay and lbian feral employe uld not get secury clearanc. Buchanan ma gay rights his target and gave a vic speech about “homosexuals” at the 1992 Republin Natnal Conventn Bh and Reagans at Ronald Reagan's 1985 guratn (Getty Imag)It was durg Clton’s first term as print that a gay Republin, one whout any sndals, surfaced. In March of 1994, California Republin Congrsman Robert Dornan outed a lleague, fellow Republin Steve Gunrson of Wisns, durg a bate on the Hoe floor about an antigay tn ative.
He died last Gunrson and Kolbe me out, several Republin ngrsmen have e out as gay or bisexual after they left office — Michael Huffgton of California and Aaron Schock of Illois are jt some exampl.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
Sce the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wa, anti-gay rhetoric and lls to roll back L.G.B.T.Q. rights have grown bolr among Republin elected officials and ndidat. * republican and gay *
And then there was Florida’s Mark Foley, who was ught sendg lurid texts to a page a 2006 repeat of the 1980s the 2012 electn cycle, Karger beme the first out gay major-party printial ndidate, eight years before Democrat and current Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg ran. “Extremism is a crisis this untry, even wh the Democrats, and extremism plays to the fact that Republins aren’t gog to promote a gay ndidate, when the base of the party supports anti-LGBTQ laws, ” he says.
“I don’t know that engagg more LGBTQ ndidat the Republin Party is fixable the current atmosphere of the Republin Party, ” argu Tim Miller, a gay former Republin Natnal Commtee spokperson and a wrer for The Bulwark, a neonservative news and opn webse. ”Kirchick tri to ph the narrative that Tmp was somehow not as bad for LGBTQ+ people than Reagan or the Bh, though that argument ually om a whe gay man thkg of only whe gay men and not the monizatn of trans people and people of lor general that Tmp regularly whipped up. If DeSantis gets the nomatn, you fely won’t be seeg any gay ndidat, particularly at some of the state levels, where state legislators are takg their anti-LGBTQ legislatn leads om Florida and DeSantis.
SHE’S GAY AND A REPUBLIN. IS THERE A PLACE FOR HER THE G.O.P.?
In the 1970s the Republin Party tried to muzzle gay inty. * republican and gay *
”Gunrson, who is arguably the an of gay Republin legislators, thought at one pot the Republin Party might be shiftg, and while didn’t, he now has hop that future generatns will save the party. There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights. “As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships.
In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job. The ngrsman relled stanc which he had been the victim of homophobic hate, such as when “I wasn’t out yet [and had] left a gay bar and two people followed me and beat me wh a baseball bat till I was bloodied and unnsc and lled me a ‘faggot. It’s an pecially pertent qutn on Monday, now that the Supreme Court, wh the support of one of Print Tmp’s nome, jt voted 6-3 that existg feral law protects gay and transgenr workers om discrimatn based on ’s a sea change the legal landspe of protectns for LGBTQ Amerins.
” But like the Republin voters Virgia who oted Riggleman favor of social nservative Bob Good, there is an active wg of the Republin Party seekg to ph back on the march toward expandg legal protectns for gay and transgenr Amerins.
AFTER ROE, REPUBLINS SHARPEN ATTACKS ON GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS
A CBS News poll June found 82 percent of Amerins say that lbian, gay and bisexual people should have civil rights protectns, cludg 71 percent of public opn shift favor of same-sex marriage, and more broadly gay and transgenr rights, has been remarkably fast.
” If he remas the loser, Democrats hope to pick up this nservative-leang district for the first time a , lculatg Good, who oppos abortn all s addn to opposg same-sex marriage, is too nservative for a broar seems possible Bolger’s predictn of gay rights quickly beg a nonissue uld happen wh the majory of the natn, cludg the Republin Party. But there is still a vol ntgency of social nservativ wh the party who are active enough to ot a stg ngrsman over his support for gay rights, the same week the Supreme Court took a historic step to expand Gk ntributed to this report.
WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY
11, 2022WASHINGTON — When the Senate passed landmark legislatn last month to mandate feral regnn for same-sex marriag, the vote was ld as a rare moment of bipartisanship at a time of ep polil polarizatn the the narrow aln of 12 Republins that joed every Democrat support of the measure — which cleared Congrs on Thursday wh fal passage the Hoe, sendg to Print Bin — did not sprg up spontaneoly a groundswell of cross-party the scen, a group of fluential Republin donors and operativ, cludg some of the party’s most proment gay lears wh long experience proddg their party to embrace L. Senators that backg would give them a polil quiet work helps expla how a bill to ensure regnn of same-sex marriag across the untry went om beg the subject of an electn-season polil manver that few expected to be enacted to an iative embraced by a cisive majory of senators, and an unexpected victory for the gay rights movement that will be one of the fal acts of the Democratic-ntrolled Congrs. Bh’s mpaign manager 2004 and a former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee who me out as gay 2010, and Centerle Actn, a centrist nonprof fund by him and Regald Brown, a lawyer Mr.
Mehlman, who has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly polici, also leaned on a work of Republins that he enlisted 2019 to urge the Supreme Court to clare that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicly prohibs discrimatn agast gay men, lbians and transgenr people the workplace. Tmp; Ben Gsberg, the proment Republin lawyer; Mary Cheney, the openly gay and married dghter of former Vice Print Dick Cheney; Tom Ridge, the former homeland secury secretary unr Mr. More about Annie KarniA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 28 of the New York edn wh the headle: Proment Gay Republins Helped Smooth Way for the Marriage Bill.
One signal — Jtice Clarence Thomas wrote a ncurrg opn that, alongsi abortn, lgs protectg same-sex relatnships and marriage should also be Ann Henry n remember a moment jt a few years ago when she felt there might be a possibily that the Republin uld actually move forward on gay rights. But we don’t do garcia-navarroDo you remember when you might have first heard the word gay or lbian, what you thought about those words and people who are associated wh them?
WHAT IT’S LIKE FOR SOME GAY MEN TO COME OUT AS REPUBLIN
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There were many people that I knew that I worked wh that — they may have accepted me and loved me personally but did not support homosexualy for relig reasons or whatever, and I knew that. As a nservative, didn’t really give me pse bee I learned so early on and still hold as my own belief, dividual liberty is so herent to what mak, I thk, Ameri different and what we should be supportg and should be much of what I saw as issue was not jt bee of my personal tert as a gay Amerin but bee I felt was ntrary to that belief.
It has to do wh gay upl’ opportuny to ann henryWe had — at the time, members of Congrs started to e forward, not all the time, but we did have right-of-center Rob Portman, others put themselv on the le bee they believed this was a big enough al, too. Archived rerdg (rob portman)My son me to Jane, my wife, and I, told that he was gay, and that was not a choice, and that he that’s jt part of who he is, and he’d been that way ever sce he uld remember. It was marriage, if you thk about , we are at the water’s edge of the argument that mastream Christian teachg is hate speech bee today we’ve reached the pot our society where if you do not support same-sex marriage you are labeled a homophobe and a hater.