Clton's gay supporters: What enthiasm gap? - POLITICO

Contents:

• STATEMENT OM HILLARY CLTON ON GAY & LBIAN PRI MONTH
• WATCH HILARY DUFF RE-CREATE HER INIC ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ ANTI-BULLYG PSA: ‘A CULTURE-DEFG MOMENT’
• HILLARY CLTON MARCH NYC GAY PRI PARA
• HILLARY CLTON, GIULIANI MARCH N.Y. GAY PARA
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• HILLARY CLTON, LOUDLY AND PROUDLY, TAPS INTO A VE OF SUPPORT AMONG GAY VOTERS
• GAY PRI

STATEMENT OM HILLARY CLTON ON GAY & LBIAN PRI MONTH

And so began a very low-speed chase along the cy’s foremost rridor of gay four blocks or so — begng steps om the Stonewall Inn, the nex of the morn gay rights movement — Hillary Clton led a mayor, a ernor, a phalanx of ais, a csh of reporters and several beleaguered secury personnel on a 15-mute was an unannounced appearance for Mrs. Clton, the prumptive Democratic printial nomee, two weeks after the massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando. Tmp, ntu to make the se that he is the te champn of gay rights the printial the wake of the Orlando shootg, Mr.

Tmp has said he is the ndidate most able to keep gay and lbian Amerins safe om hate Mrs. Clton remas likely to mand the vast majory of support om gay voters, she has had a plited history wh gay secretary of state, she foced often on ternatnal gay rights, urgg untri to accept gays and lbians durg a 2011 speech Geneva. She has sce nounced Rsia’s treatment of lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people, and March 2013, she endorsed same-sex marriage both “personally and as a matter of policy and law.

Clton’s donor base clus gay and lbian supporters, some have qutned the liberate pace of her evolutn. Wearg a shirt that read, “SPOILER ALERT: HILLARY WINS, ” Matt McDermott, 26, marveled at the progrs of gay civil rights.

WATCH HILARY DUFF RE-CREATE HER INIC ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ ANTI-BULLYG PSA: ‘A CULTURE-DEFG MOMENT’

Clton on gay marriage at CNN Townhall. Clton, flanked by Secret Secret agents, stepped out of her motor near the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was recently named a natnal historic landmark bee was the se of 1969 rts for gay rights. Ahead of this para, Clton’s mpaign released a seri of vios toutg her rerd on issu impactg the gay muny.

“Marchg wh her durg the gay pri para, I enuntered one of the most movg, emotnal outpourgs I’d ever seen, ” former Rep. Barney Frank, a proment gay polician, says the vio while talkg about how Clton marched the 2000 New York Pri para. Al Sharpton, attends the New York Cy Gay Pri Para, June 26, 2016 New York Cy.

HILLARY CLTON MARCH NYC GAY PRI PARA

US Democratic prumptive printial nomee Hillary Clton on Sunday (June 26) ma an appearance at the New York Cy gay pri para, greetg the throng of people lg the para route as she walked alongsi New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and civil rights activist Al Sharpton. Millns of people draped the rabow hu of LGBT pri turned out for the annual para through New York streets, two weeks after a adly mass shootg at a Florida gay nightclub stirred fear and solidary among lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr was the first of a strg of paras on Sunday US ci such as Chigo, Seattle and San Francis. Donald Tmp claimed he was a “much better iend to the gays” than Hillary Clton after the mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando earlier this month.

HILLARY CLTON, GIULIANI MARCH N.Y. GAY PARA

Sce last year, more LGBT anizatns, like the Human Rights Campaign, have endorsed Clton’s mpaign, and she has spoken out about gay rights the wake of the Orlando mass shootg. “We want to live a untry where gay and lbian Amerins and all Amerins are safe om radil Islam, which, by the way, wants to murr and has murred gays and they enslave women, ” he said at a mpaign rally North Carola earlier this month.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

Tmp do not support same-sex marriage, but he has not ma the issue a centerpiece of his printial mpaign, and some Republin gay rights activists see Tmp as a ndidate who uld move the party away om s hard-le opposn to same-sex marriage.

“Gay rights are on the le, ” he said. Marchers and spectators held signs readg “Gays agast guns”.

"As we celebrate Gay and Lbian Pri Month, I want to mend the LGBT muny on a historic year that brought our untry closer to equaly and closer to endg discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins. "The start of Gay and Lbian Pri Month is a great time to celebrate the recent victori but also to reflect on all the work that still needs to be done.

HILLARY CLTON, LOUDLY AND PROUDLY, TAPS INTO A VE OF SUPPORT AMONG GAY VOTERS

Ameri serv a print who appeals to the bt each of , not the worst; a print who valu and rpects all Amerins, gay and straight; a print who treats all Amerins equally no matter who they are or who they love. Hillary Clton, Statement om Hillary Clton On Gay & Lbian Pri Month Onle by Gerhard Peters and John T.

Ined, many gay lears are so on board for her mpaign that they prefer she spend time buildg support elsewhere stead of marchg alongsi them. Sean Patrick Maloney, who grew up Hanover and is the first openly gay person to be elected to Congrs om New York, will host the kickoff event for the “LGBT Grane Staters for Hillary, ” Portsmouth.

GAY PRI

And gay lears have never been more eager to get on board a big way. ” Shipp said was also meangful to her that Robby Mook, Clton’s mpaign manager, is openly gay.

Clton, who marched the Pri Para when she first ran for Senate, has long cultivated the gay vote. But her rerd of support for gay-rights issu, particularly durg her hband’s princy, was never ahead of her time — 2000, Clton said she did not support gay marriag. To some gays and lbians, Clton’s personal story — as a woman who has persevered spe obstacl and attacks — is spirg.

Others pot to her gay iends. And still others acknowledge her ls-than-perfect rerd on gay issu but accept the scery of her mment this time around.