NYC Mayoral Hopeful Andrew Yang Bombed a Speech to Important Gay Polil Club

Contents:

• NYC MAYOR HOPEFUL ANDREW YANG SLAMMED BY LGBTQ GROUP FOR ‘CRGE’ MENTS CLAIMG GAY PEOPLE ARE A ‘SECRET WEAPON’
• ANDREW YANG, LOOKG FOR ENDORSEMENT, OFFENDS GAY DEMOCRATIC CLUB
• NYC MAYORAL HOPEFUL ANDREW YANG BOMBED A SPEECH TO IMPORTANT GAY POLIL CLUB
• ANDREW YANG JT KEPT TALKG ABOUT GAY BARS ‘CRGE’ MEETG WH LGBTQ GROUP: REPORT
• YANG TRI TO APPEAL TO GAY DEMOCRATIC GROUP, LOS ITS ENDORSEMENT

NYC MAYOR HOPEFUL ANDREW YANG SLAMMED BY LGBTQ GROUP FOR ‘CRGE’ MENTS CLAIMG GAY PEOPLE ARE A ‘SECRET WEAPON’

NEW York Cy mayoral ont-nner Andrew Yang has been slammed by a proment LGBTQ group over "crge" ments he ma llg gay people a "secret weapon".

"It was like he never met a gay person his life, even though he kept remdg people on his staff were gay, " filmmaker Harris Doran, who attend the endorsement meetg told NBC.

Instead, Doran said Yang characterized the gay muny as beg "so betiful and human", and exprsed "over and over" how exced he is to vis the storied New York lbian bar, Cubbyhole.

ANDREW YANG, LOOKG FOR ENDORSEMENT, OFFENDS GAY DEMOCRATIC CLUB

Speakg at the meetg, Yang said: "Well, first, let me say that if I go to Cubbyhole, I thk I'm gog to be acpanied by at least one of my two mpaign managers who are both gay. In a tweet, Doran wrote: "Oh man Andrew Yang at the Stonewall endorsement meetg was an experienced, ill-rmed joke who keep tellg his mpaign manager was gay over and over and namg one gay bar over and over.

But gay bars are an sential part of our Cy and s history, ” Sasha Ahuja and Chris Coffey, Yang’s -mpaign managers told Poli.

NYC MAYORAL HOPEFUL ANDREW YANG BOMBED A SPEECH TO IMPORTANT GAY POLIL CLUB

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Yang chose to foc on bars, paras and his gay staff members. "It was like he never met a gay person his life, even though he kept remdg people on his staff were gay, " filmmaker Harris Doran, who attend the endorsement meetg as a member, said Thursday.

ANDREW YANG JT KEPT TALKG ABOUT GAY BARS ‘CRGE’ MEETG WH LGBTQ GROUP: REPORT

Yang grated the members wh glib referenc to gay bars and gay people beg "a secret weapon.

Several members of the Stonewall Democrats of New York Cy relayed to The Tim and posted on Twter that Yang offend the group by referrg to the gay muny as "so betiful and human" and "a secret weapon, " and his nstant referenc to gay bars and clubs.

"Oh man Andrew Yang at the Stonewall endorsement meetg was an experienced, ill rmed joke who keep tellg his mpaign manager was gay over and over and namg one gay bar over and over, " Doran also posted on Twter on Wednday night.

YANG TRI TO APPEAL TO GAY DEMOCRATIC GROUP, LOS ITS ENDORSEMENT

Rose Christ, the club's print, told The Tim that Yang's tone was "outdated, " and that his foc on gay bars and paras "are not the substantive issu that our membership r about and me off poorly. “Well, first, let me say that if I go to Cubbyhole, I thk I’m gog to be acpanied by at least one of my two mpaign managers who are both gay, ” Yang said.