Tmp tells Gays for Tmp supporter they ‘don’t look gay’ at fundraiser – The Hill

Contents:

• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• GAY VOTERS SHARE WHY THEY ARE VOTG FOR PRINT TMP
• TMP APPLDS POLL SHOWG 45 PERCENT SUPPORT AMONG GAY MEN
• DONALD TMP’S TOP “LGBT” SUPPORTERS ARE LARGELY GAY WHE MEN
• TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER
• GAY REPUBLINS EXPLA WHY THEY ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTG DONALD TMP
• MARA GAY: PRO-TMP AMERINS ARE STUPID, IGNORANT, NEFAR
• I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY AD
• DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
• IF YOU'RE GAY AND SUPPORT TMP, YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE RT OF US
• GAY TMP SUPPORTERS PARTICIPATED ATTEMPTED COUP AT U.S. CAPOL
• TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER
• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

But a Morng Consult poll om June found 19 percent of LGBTQ voters backed Tmp, while GLAAD's State of LGBTQ Voters report September reported jt 17 percent of LGBTQ registered voters were supportg the 's poll rults were siar to ex poll fdgs om 2016, which found that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr voters backed Hillary Clton over Tmp by 74 percent to 14 percent. '100 percent on board'While the precise numbers may be uncerta, Tmp's msage is appealg to some segment of the LGBTQ Kazmierczak, a gay real tate agent Virgia who said he's "100 percent on board" wh the print, blam Democrats for fixatg on inty polics.

GAY VOTERS SHARE WHY THEY ARE VOTG FOR PRINT TMP

"A lot of people jt don't like to be told they n only thk a certa way, and that's exactly what the left do, " said Bob Kabel, chair of the Log Cab Republins, a natnal gay nservative group.

"Others have rporated their support for Team Tmp to their fluencer brands, like lbian YouTuber Arielle Srcella, gay polil mentator Dave Rub and bi glam rocker Ricky Rebel, who appeared at the Grammys red leather chaps wh the words "IMPEACH THIS" wrten across his backsi. "Some voters are askg themselv, 'Do I vote as a gay person who is worried about my eedom and equaly, or do I vote as someone who's fearful for what the hell is gog on my untry?

"Right now, there are so many gays and lbians that are beg manipulated and ma to feel that they're unr nstant attack all the time by this admistratn, which is jt not the se, " he said. "If Tmp is helpg stimulate the enomy, if he is helpg wd down forever wars, if he is dog thgs that benef Ameri, then gay and lbian Amerins are gog to benef, as well.

TMP APPLDS POLL SHOWG 45 PERCENT SUPPORT AMONG GAY MEN

"The Democrats are takg the gay muny for granted, acrdg to Smh, who said his goal on the Tmp Pri advisory board is to reach younger LGBTQ people "so that they don't see themselv as victims. "In July, the Log Cab Republins lnched OUTSpoken, a multimedia mpaign signed to "bat the half-tths, misreprentatns and outright li that the gay left and the mastream media proliferate. "Asked about Tmp's attu toward the LGBTQ muny, Kabel offered a seri of well-rehearsed talkg pots: Tmp is "the most gay-iendly print, " same-sex marriage is settled law, Tmp-nomated Supreme Court Jtice Neil Gorsuch wrote the pro-LGBTQ cisn Bostock v.

”OUTspoken sent Brokeback Patrt, who has stated trans women are not women, to New Orleans’ Southern Dence party to ask passersby if they thk Tmp is “pro-gay. Acrdg to the GLAAD poll, however, 19 percent of trans and nonbary registered voters were supportg Tmp — more than eher gay men (17 percent) or lbians (11 percent).

"He poted to the admistratn's mpaign to crimalize homosexualy, which, a year and a half after was announced by Grenell, "has acplished lerally nothg, " he said. He beme what he lled an “aggrsive liberal activist, ” makg pamphlets about gay rights that he left on rs and at Greene found his liberal peers dismissive and unfivg, he said.

DONALD TMP’S TOP “LGBT” SUPPORTERS ARE LARGELY GAY WHE MEN

They see Tmp’s rollback of LGBTQ rights as part of a larger regulatn mpaign to lim the powers of the feral ernment, not as a targeted attack on gay and transgenr rights. RELATED: How Tmp's 100-Day Plan Could Impact LGBTQ RightsWhile ’s clear that the majory of the LGBTQ muny leans liberal—and remas fearful that the Tmp-Pence admistratn will stigate creased discrimatn and a step backward for equaly—gay Tmp voters don’t appear to share the ncerns of the larger muny. Ebenhack / APVcent Foster, 27, is the print of the Miami chapter of gay nservative group Log Cab Republins, which ma news this fall for endorsg Tmp spe the natnal anizatn’s cisn not to.

As a black gay man, he said, he’s been lled everythg om an “Uncle Tom” to a “self-hatg f-g” for his support of emphasized gun policy as a reason why he—and his chapter—cid that Tmp was the bt ndidate for print. 'Ferally Protected' StatWhile Tmp’s 100-day plan did not specifilly refer to any LGBTQ-oriented polici, his gay and lbian supporters exprsed hop that his admistratn would add sexual orientatn and genr inty to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 orr to ensure LGBTQ Amerins are protected om discrimatn.

Print Donald Tmp shared a tweet wh his 86 ln followers appldg a new poll that found 45 percent of Amerin gay men surveyed plan to st their ballots for him November. “In effect, the only thg tly measured by Hor’s rults are the opns of those Hor ers who chose to take the survey, not the broar Hor er base, not gay Amerin men, and most fely not the broar Amerin LGBTQ muny, ” the pany’s webse stated followg media verage of the poll.

TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER

” He add that “there was a picture of a transgenr person for Tmp” at a pri event Savannah, Geia, though he didn't specify where that photo was 's most proment gay supporters are Peter Thiel, a PayPal -founr who spoke at the RNC, and Milo Yiannopoulos, a lumnist of the whe natnalist alt-right.

GAY REPUBLINS EXPLA WHY THEY ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTG DONALD TMP

In June, as Brebart reported, Facebook leted the acunt for Transgenr for Tmp after the group's admistrator posted a vio of an Imam advotg ath to homosexuals. “Where’s Gays for Tmp, ” Tmp asked a crowd of supporters while speakg at the fundraiser, which was anized to support John Gibbs, a Republin om Michigan and a former Hog and Urban Development official unr the Tmp admistratn nng to unseat Rep.

Acrdg to a vio clip of the teractn, an dience member rpond, “We’re over here, ” promptg Tmp to pot at them and say, “You don’t look gay, ” drawg lghs om the crowd. On Thursday, Gays for Tmp founr Peter Boyk told Newsweek that members of the anizatn “probably wouldn’t ‘look gay’ bee ’s a stereotype that fs more wh the typil ‘look’ of leftist LGBT.

Boyk suggted to Newsweek that he was relatively unbothered by Tmp’s ment, but add that Gays for Tmp is a “natnwi movement full of var typ of gays and the gay muny has a lot of diversy—the difference is the Gays for Tmp lean right. — -- Charl Moran, a gay Tmp legate om California, was standg jt feet om the stage at the Republin Natnal Conventn when he heard billnaire PayPal -founr Peter Thiel give his now-famo speech. I am proud to be a Republin, ” Thiel told a cheerg crowd at the RNC Cleveland this past ma history that night as the first openly gay RNC speaker, and this week he doubled down on his Donald Tmp endorsement, donatg $1.

MARA GAY: PRO-TMP AMERINS ARE STUPID, IGNORANT, NEFAR

”As Tmp’s chanc of wng the electn appear to ntue to drop the wang days of his mpaign, many gay nservativ, an unexpected segment of the Republin Party, are still backg him. "Tmp earned a lot of credibily wh gay Republins when he beme the first GOP printial nomee to posively refer to the gay muny a nventn acceptance speech, sayg, “As your print, I will do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens om the vlence and opprsn of a hateful foreign iology. “The nng joke is that ’s so much easier to be gay the Republin Party than is to be a Republin the LGBT muny, ” he Hernanz is a gay Hispanic Tmp supporter who also wnsed Thiel and Tmp's history-makg speech at the RNC this summer.

“Some of the youngsters that have reached out to me, ntacted me, and said that they e om an ultra-nservative fay and they don't know anyone else who else is gay and that they see me on the media and for them that's huge bee they n see someone else that they’re a Republin and that they're gay, ” Hernanz ’s support for the gay muny hasn’t been that clear on the mpaign trail. “Hillary took $25 ln om Sdi Arabia and much more om others, where beg gay is also punishable by ath, ” Tmp told supporters at a Florida rally Log Cab Republins, the party's pro-LGBTQ group of which Moran and Hernanz are members, cled to endorse Donald Tmp for print. ”At a dner the uple hosted early this year their Chelsea apartment, Corey Johnson, a Democrat and the openly gay speaker of the New York Cy Council, beme irate when the uple suggted he meet Mr.

Whe abptly rigned as print of the Intrepid, phed out, he said, after the state began an vtigatn to whether he had engaged unlicensed mercial was not charged wh any crime, but agreed to pay $1 ln rtutn to the state as a Whe, who said he had done no wrong, still wc when he speaks of the pilloryg that pair said their behavr was keepg wh a lifelong foc on missn over party, namely fightg for veterans and gay have supported a few Republins before Mr.

I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY AD

On the Thursday edn of MSNBC’s Morng Joe, host Joe Srborough and New York Tim edorial board member Mara Gay took to the offensive to fend FBI Director Christopher Wray om Republin cricism. Gay’s bland sults were the words of a sad, trated polil operative embarrassed that her si’s own nefar activi were challenged and exposed Congrsnal ttimony. Ltle did I know DeSantis was farther to the right on issu that meant the most to me and the more than 70 percent of Amerins who support gay has ma clear the past few weeks that he’s more terted appeasg Twter trolls who abhor any Amerin who intifi as LGBTQ+.

If Tmp was someone who don’t support the movement, DeSantis is an all-out gayns has nothg to do wh the fact that Florida is a boomg state an otherwise lacklter enomy. That beg said, DeSantis has ma abundantly clear that he do not support gay Amerins regardls of whether they support his nservative I first enuntered DeSantis durg his bold stance agast COVID mandat earlier this year, I was generally pleased wh the Florida ernor. It beme evint that DeSantis was not the champn of dividual eedoms and rights that I had hoped anti-gay rhetoric and actns are not only eply hurtful to LGBTQ+ Amerins like myself but also tarnish the image of the nservative movement.

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

By disregardg such a signifint portn of the populatn, DeSantis reveals a ncerng lack of unrstandg of the evolvg societal norms and a gay woman, my sexual orientatn is jt one aspect of my inty, and should not fe my polil beliefs or my place wh the nservative movement. If he tly aims to lead the nservative movement and brg about posive change for all Amerins, he mt abandon divisive tactics and foc on polici that promote uny and far, he is only losg everyday Amerins, cludg many nservativ like myself, through his disgtg anti-gay rhetoric. "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. While gay nservativ have been around for s, the number of self-intified gay men who have recently e out support of Tmp is, at the very least, ’s time we have a ndid nversatn wh one another: if you intify as gay, you are part of a muny of margalized people whose rights and very survival are threatened by the prospect of a Tmp while Tmp may have thrown around the acronym “LGBTQ” as a loose statement of unsubstantiated queer empathy, he certaly is not pro-LGBT.

IF YOU'RE GAY AND SUPPORT TMP, YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE RT OF US

This clus rg about and fightg for the rights of people of lor, women, disabled people, people of other natnali and people of different class, addn to sexual and genr mori, jt to name a, if you’re a whe, cis gay man who is privileged every way ― except for who you go to bed wh at night ― the msage that your statement of support for Tmp sends to all other mory groups is that you don’t give a sh about ’s take a look at Tmp’s and Vice Printial ndidate Mike Pence’s track rerd, shall we? In June, he had a private meetg wh over 400 of the most homophobic, bigoted and powerful anti-LGBT lears the untry and has been a champn of “relig eedom” rhetoric ed to discrimate agast LGBT people.

In addn, Pence has a long history of LGBT tolerance, cludg opposg foreign ernments’ efforts to crimalize homosexualy, opposg repealg “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and leadg a csa agast LGBT rights as ernor of is not a printial ndidate who r about margalized groups, or people who have to navigate this world on a very different, more difficult path than the one he has walked.

And ’s time that we as queer people ― pecially whe, gay-intifyg men wh accs to pal ― re about the most vulnerable members of our muny enough to let their voic and experienc shape our actns, iologi and you want to do the daily mental gymnastics mt take to jtify supportg Tmp, by all means! Meanwhile, is not known whether the LGBTQ+ rters were formally affiliated wh any polilly anizatn, as the majory of gay nservative groups that ntue to support the print have been silent on social media the aftermath of the rt.

GAY TMP SUPPORTERS PARTICIPATED ATTEMPTED COUP AT U.S. CAPOL

As one of the Republin Natnal Commtee's first openly gay members, and a longtime lear of Log Cab Republins, I've worked tirelsly alongsi many iends and lleagu to pull the party to the future.

TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER

Through his philanthropic work over the years wh chari batg the AIDS crisis, his prev support of amendg the 1964 Civil Rights Act to clu a ban on discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, and his early support of gay upl havg the same rights and protectns as straight upl, Tmp was an ally long before he was print.

He is likely even the first private club owner Palm Beach, Florida, to adm an openly gay didn’t abandon the prcipl when he assumed his posn behd the Rolute Dk.

The Tmp plan is foced on muni most need and has received support om those who have been volved the fight agast HIV/ siar fashn, Tmp announced durg Pri Month 2019 that his admistratn was lnchg a global mpaign to end the crimalizatn of homosexualy. In ordatn wh the Uned Natns, the European Unn and other human rights anizatns, the mpaign’s goal is to prsure natns to endg homophobic laws, securg the safety and eedom of all LGBT dividuals throughout the world.

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

The acplishments should not suggt the print's work is beg elected print, Donald Tmp supported amendg the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clu sexual orientatn; his admistratn's ristance to protectg gay, lbian and transgenr employe om discrimatn the workplace the recent Supreme Court se was th disappotg. ]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 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.