‘Gays for Tmp’: The print’s small, vol — and unlikely — fan club - The Boston Globe

Contents:

• TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER
• TMP TELLS MEMBER OF GAYS FOR TMP AT MAR-A-LAGO: 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY'
• GAYS FOR TMP LEAR PETER BOYK: 'WE WILL RE-ELECT HIM'
• GAYS FOR TMP FOUNR PETER BOYK CALLS TRANSGENR TROOPS 'MENTALLY CHALLENGED'
• AUTHOR: PETER BOYK
• GAYS FOR TMP
• TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER
• ‘GAYS FOR TMP’ HAS A MARCH PLANNED NEXT MONTH SUPPORT OF OUR ANTI-LGBTQ PRINT
• ‘GAYS FOR TMP’ LEAR FAC CSHG ELECTN FEAT
• ‘GAYS FOR TMP’: THE PRINT’S SMALL, VOL — AND UNLIKELY — FAN CLUB
• GAYS FOR TMP

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

Former Print Tmp this week told a gay supporter at a fundraiser Florida that they did not “look gay.

TMP TELLS MEMBER OF GAYS FOR TMP AT MAR-A-LAGO: 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY'

In a statement to Newsweek, Gays for Tmp founr Peter Boyk said the “gay” stereotype “fs more wh the typil ‘look’ of leftist LGBT. Tmp told the crowd at Mar-a-Lago that his admistratn “did great wh the gay populatn, ” though LGBTQ+ advocy groups have disputed that claim.

GAYS FOR TMP LEAR PETER BOYK: 'WE WILL RE-ELECT HIM'

Former Print Tmp on Wednday told a gay supporter they did not “look gay” durg a fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago golf club Florida.

GAYS FOR TMP FOUNR PETER BOYK CALLS TRANSGENR TROOPS 'MENTALLY CHALLENGED'

“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. Tmp on Wednday told supporters his admistratn “did great wh the gay populatn, as you know.

AUTHOR: PETER BOYK

Chip Somovilla/Getty ImagOnce upon a time — say, December — you uld fd Donald Tmp talkg an awfully strong pro-gay game. “We are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard, ” he told a Mar-a-Lago ballroom’s worth of LGBTQ revelers gathered for a Log Cab Republin gala, as reported by Poli. That builds on a lanyofstatements ma by andabout Tmp — “Print Tmp is the most pro-gay print Amerin history, ” clared former actg director of natnal telligence Richard Grenell — regardg the former print’s support for LGBTQ, as recently as 2019, you uld buy rabow-hued Tmp “pri” products and “LGBTQ for Tmp” swag om Tmp’s mpaign webse to help fund his polil crics, however, argue that Tmp’s words and fundraisg efforts are wholly overridn by his cidly anti-LGBTQ actns as print, om dranian transgenr ary polici to the nomatns of nservative feral judg that uld threaten the rights of gay and transgenr Amerins.

Ron DeSantis, whose mpaign last month — Pri Month — chid Tmp for his LGBTQ Peter the founr and print of Gays for Tmp, Boyk readily acknowledg that Tmp tractors may view him as a “chicken for Colonel Sanrs”-type for Tmp lear Peter Boyk speaks at a rally on the Natnal Mall on Sept.

GAYS FOR TMP

Courty: C-SPANBut Boyk, who himself is nng as a Republin for litenant ernor of North Carola, says he believ Tmp will stay te to pro-gay beliefs he’s publicly monstrated sce the 1980s. He's not gettg up there and sayg ‘gays are gog to hell’ or ‘transgenrs are evil’ like some of our other policians.

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

“He's been supportive of the gay muny. And that's the biggt thg that Republins need to ntue to do — the failure that I see of the Democrats is when they hire people jt based on, ‘they’re Black’ or ‘they're lbian, gay or they're transgenr’ and they n't do the damn job.

”Boyk noted that Tmp, as print, secured a wily-touted al to provi unsured Amerins wh pre-exposure prophylaxis — PrEP — a dg that n prevent HIV fectn that’s particularly popular among gay men.

I am proud to be gay. “‘Groomers’ — 's a very good ltle tch phrase, but 's pedophil we’re talkg about, and that's straight, gay, transgenr, whatever, ” he said. “I don't want to go back to like the ‘50s — stuff where, you know, ‘Oh, God, please stay away om my kids bee you're gay!

‘GAYS FOR TMP’ HAS A MARCH PLANNED NEXT MONTH SUPPORT OF OUR ANTI-LGBTQ PRINT

Gay people are not pedophil. ”Boyk lled on Tmp, whose mpaign did not rpond to requts for ment for this article, to strike back agast this rhetoric and stand up for LGBTQ Amerins — nservativ, particular, even as other Republin printial ndidat attempt to ame Tmp’s support for gays as a liabily. ”)And Tmp, Boyk said, should pick Arizona gubernatorial also-ran Kari Lake as his vice printial nng mate, given her own history of supportg gay should also keep urtg gay Republins, cludg Gays for Tmp and the flagship group for nservative gays, the Log Cab Republins, Boyk Republins, Tmp, he said, is “still the only ndidate out there that supports the gay muny.

‘GAYS FOR TMP’ LEAR FAC CSHG ELECTN FEAT

To Those Gays the LGB and T(S) alli who don’t want to associate themselv at all wh the “LGBT” muny bee you say the left has taken over, We ask you a qutn and We issue you a challenge. 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. 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.

‘GAYS FOR TMP’: THE PRINT’S SMALL, VOL — AND UNLIKELY — FAN CLUB

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. He didn’t tail what that might add: “Not sayg some of might look fabulo and ‘gay. ’ Otherwise was a su-and-tie event, so unls one of was wearg a joker su, meh, ” Boyk scribed Gays for Tmp as “var typ” of gays who “lean right.

”Tmp told a “Gays for Tmp” supporter, “You don’t look gay” durg a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser event for Michigan Republin John crowd lghed.

GAYS FOR TMP

), a featured speaker at Tmp’s rally Geia, attacked Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his hband, Chasten, a homophobic rant. Some noted how ironic was that Tmp was discsg gays when his polil ally, GOP Gov.

Ron DeSantis, jt signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill to law, makg illegal to discs sexual orientatn or genr inty schools om krgarten through third gra.