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Contents:
- TMP TELLS MEMBER OF GAYS FOR TMP AT MAR-A-LAGO: 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY'
- 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?
- TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
TMP TELLS MEMBER OF GAYS FOR TMP AT MAR-A-LAGO: 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY'
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. * lgbt for trump *
Appotg a small handful of gay people out of thoands of nomatns and makg a very few -- and unfullfilled -- pledg n hardly qualify as acplishments. 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! While Tmp and his surrogat, cludg his children, have claimed he supports LGBTQ+ rights, his actns -- om banng trans people om the ary to lendg support to antigay s at the Supreme Court to workg to erase queers om the Cens -- have proven the oppose.
The vio opens wh a clip of then-ndidate Tmp pledgg to "do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens" a speech at the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn, jt weeks after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay club Orlando. What crics are sayg The Log Cab Republins, an anizatn that advot for LGBTQ nservativ, said a Twter thread that DeSantis' rhetoric had "ventured to homophobic terrory, " llg "divisive and sperate. Richard Grenell, Tmp's former actg director of natnal telligence — and the first openly gay Cabet member — lled the vio "unniably homophobic.
TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER
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" Christa Phaw, the rapid rponse director for DeSantis' mpaign, rpond a tweet that opposg the feral regnn of Pri Month is not homophobic. Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg — the first openly gay Cabet member to be approved by the Senate — allud to DeSantis "tryg to prove his manhood, " and asked who he is aimg to help.
DeSantis — who said while mpaigng for ernor 2018 that "gettg to bathroom wars, I don't thk that's a good e of our time" — has taken a more hardle stance recent years, signg a slew of bills that roll back protectns for gay and transgenr dividuals. Last March he signed a bill that crics have brand "Don't Say Gay, " which bans public school teachers om holdg classroom stctn about sexual orientatn or genr inty. In remarks at the event, the 2024 GOP printial ont-nner claimed that “we are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard, ” Poli flyer urg recipients to ntact Tmp through his office to tell him “to keep fightg for” the LGBTQ muny.
” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.
WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily.
"As today's report mak clear, many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all whilst bravely servg this untry, " Sunak said.
Starmer poted out that a former member of the Royal Air Force, Ken Wright, who was "forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay, " was prent for Sunak's apology. Former Print Donald Tmp told a supporter the group Gays for Tmp at an event at Mar-a-Lago: “You don’t look gay” — triggerg an eptn of lghter among his fans. “We did great wh the gay populatn, as you know, ” Tmp boasted at the Wednday fundraiser for Republin John Gibbs, who’s nng for the Hoe fact, 73% of the LGBTQ muny supported Democrat Joe Bin and not Tmp, acrdg to a poll nduced by the nonpartisan Natnal Opn Rearch Center at the Universy of Chigo.
TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
While office, Tmp was rponsible for a lany of anti-gay and anti-transgenr actns, and he cimatg several anti-discrimatn protectns. He banned transgenr people om the for Tmp’s implitn that gays have a sgle “look, ” Gays for Tmp founr Peter Boyk told Newsweek on Thursday that the former print was probably referrg to gays on the left. Members of Boyk’s anizatn “probably wouldn’t look gay bee ’s a stereotype that fs more wh the typil ‘look’ of leftist LGBT, ” Boyk sisted.