Gays for Tmp? (2017)

Contents:

• 'GAYS FOR TMP' LEAR WANTS REPUBLINS TO STOP FOCG ON 'STUPID GRAY AREAS'
• HOW THE ‘TMP EFFECT’ IS ENDANGERG LGBT PEOPLE WORLDWIAMERICA LASTINTERNATNAL ACTIVISTS SAY THE EFFECTS OF THE TMP ADMISTRATN’S ACTNS (AND ACTNS) ARE ALREADY BEG FELT. GAY REPUBLINS EHER DON’T KNOW OR DON’T RE.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED MAY 22, 2017 12:19PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 19, 2017 1:00AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTTHE “TMP EFFECT” IS NOW A GLOBAL PHENOMENON—AND NOT SURPRISGLY, ’S HURTG THE MOST VULNERABLE.THAT’S THE LSON I TOOK OM A GATHERG NVENED AT THE UNED NATNS THIS WEEK BY OUTRIGHT INTERNATNAL, A LEADG TERNATNAL LGBT RIGHTS ANIZATN. OSTENSIBLY, WAS A BENEF GALA, AND THERE WAS PLENTY OF BOOZE FLOWG BENEATH THE BETIFUL SPRG SKY. BUT TALKG WH ACTIVISTS I’VE KNOWN FOR YEARS—AND WHOSE WORK WE’VE VERED THE PAG BEFORE—I GOT A MUCH MORE SOMBER VIEW OF THE DAMAGE THAT THE TMP ADMISTRATN HAS ALREADY DONE TO LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD.“EVERY CISN AND EVERY MOVE THAT HAPPENS THE UNED STAT HAS A WAVE OF IMPACT THE CARIBBEAN,” SAID KENA PLACI, A ST. LUCIA-BASED ACTIVIST WHO IS ALSO A REGNAL ADVISER FOR OUTRIGHT. TALKG WH PLACI AND OTHER ACTIVISTS, FIVE MAJOR TRENDS EMERGED.1. THE RELIG RIGHT’S DELIGHT FIRST, THE RISE OF TMP, WHO OW HIS PRINCY TO THE RELIG RIGHT, HAS EMBOLNED RELIG NSERVATIV EVERYWHERE.  CALEB OROZ, WHO LED THE EFFORTS TO OVERTURN BELIZE’S ANTI-SODOMY LAW—AN EFFORT THAT ME TO UN LAST YEAR—SAID THAT “FOR ME, MY MA WORRY IS SEEG HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FAH-BASED SAYG THEY WANT REGRSN ON LGBT PROGRS.” SPECIFILLY, OROZ SAID, RELIG-RIGHT ACTIVISTS BELIZE HAVE SENT A LETTER TO THE TMP ADMISTRATN “SAYG THEY WANT A U.S. AMBASSADOR WHO SHAR THEIR VALU.” THAT IS A VERY REAL POSSIBILY, GIVEN TMP’S ELECTORAL BASE, AND WOULD SHIFT THE POLIL DYNAMIC AGAST LGBT PEOPLE THE SMALL LAT AMERIN UNTRY.MORE BROADLY, SAID JSI STERN, OUTRIGHT’S DIRECTOR, “WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT THIS ERNMENT DO, WHO ELECTED , AND THE WAY THIS CHASM OF U.S. LEARSHIP EMBOLNS THE RELIG RIGHT GLOBALLY.” STERN SAID THAT THIS ‘EMBOLNG’ IS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON, EVEN LGBT-IENDLY PLAC LIKE THE NETHERLANDS AND THE UNED KGDOM.PLACI POTED OUT THAT THE ROLE OF U.S. EVANGELILS SHAPG OTHER UNTRI’ POLICI TOWARD LGBT PEOPLE IS NOT NEW. “EVEN WHOUT TMP,” SHE SAID, “YOU ALREADY SAW HOW U.S. EVANGELILS WERE MOVG .  BUT NOW THE FLOODGAT ARE OPEN… THE RIGHT-WG IS GOG TO ADVANCE FURTHER THAN THEY HAVE EVER BEFORE, WHOUT HAVG TO WORK FOR AS MUCH AS WE HAD TO WORK FOR . THEY ARE BEG HAND STUFF.”AMERINS MAY NOT SEE TMP’S VICTORY AS A VICTORY FOR ANTI-GAY, ANTI-WOMEN RELIG NSERVATIV, BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVERSEAS.2. LOSS OF FUNDGSEND, THERE ARE THE BRASS TACKS OF U.S. FUNDG, PARTICULARLY FOR HIV PREVENTN, AND FOR SUPPORT OF TY LGBT ANIZATNS REPRSIVE SOCIETI. “WHERE THE CARIBBEAN IS NCERNED, THE IMPACT OF U.S. POLICY HAS BEEN GREAT,” SAID PLACI. “OUR ENTIRE HIV PROGRAM WAS MOSTLY U.S.-FUND.”AND WH THE STATE DEPARTMENT UNRSTAFFED (TENTNALLY, NOW APPEARS) AND FOREIGN AID BEG CIMATED TMP’S BUDGET, SEEMS CERTA THAT THE TENS OF LNS OF DOLLARS THE U.S. SPENDS ON PROTECTG LGBT PEOPLE OM PERSECUTN, AND PROTECTG EVERYONE OM HIV, WILL BE ELIMATED. SUCH SUMS ARE A MCULE AMOUNT OF MONEY THE NTEXT OF THE OVERALL FERAL BUDGET, BUT THEY ARE A LIFELE FOR HIV SERVIC AND LGBT PROTECTNS PLAC WHERE BEG GAY IS A PAL CRIME.PLACI SAID THIS FUNDG HAS ALREADY BEEN CUT BACK LOLLY, ANTICIPATN OF CUTS U.S. SUPPORT. “THE IMPACT IS REAL,” SHE SAID. “A LOT OF FUNDG HAS BEEN PULLED, A LOT OF LIV HAVE ALREADY BEEN DAMAGED. PEOPLE ARE STEPPG ON EGGSHELLS BEE OF THE FEAR AND UNCERTATY OF WHAT’S NEXT.”3. A BLANK CHECK FOR BIGOTS“AMERI SETS AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD,” OROZ TOLD ME. WHEN THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS THAT LGBT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS (THAT SECRETARY OF STATE WAS HILLARY CLTON), THAT CHANG POLICI AND CULTUR WORLDWI. WHEN THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS ABSOLUTELY NOTHG ABOUT LGBT PEOPLE, THAT SILENCE, TOO, SENDS A CLEAR MSAGE.“A REALLY CLEAR EXAMPLE OF THIS IS THE TRAGEDY UNFOLDG BEFORE OUR EY CHECHNYA,” SAID STERN. “THERE ARE STILL OVER 100 MEN RCERATED. THIS IS A BLACK-AND-WHE HUMAN-RIGHTS VLATN: ARBRARY ARRT, CTODIAL MISNDUCT, TORTURE, AND EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLG. AND YET WE HAVE NO MENT ON THE RERD OM THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE OR THE U.S. PRINT.” THAT IS ED REMARKABLE: WHILE THE STATE DEPARTMENT DID SEND OUT A PRS RELEASE, NEHER SECRETARY OF STATE REX TILLERSON NOR PRINT TMP EVEN BROACHED THE ISSUE THEIR MEETGS WH RSIAN OFFICIALS— NTRAST TO GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL, FOR EXAMPLE.“IF AMERIN LEARSHIP N’T SPEAK OUT WHEN THE EFFECTS ARE SO GRAVE,” ASKED STERN, “WHEN N WE EXPECT THEM TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT ANY LGBTI [I FOR TERSEX] ISSUE OR ANY HUMAN-RIGHTS ISSUE?”THAT IS A POT WORTH NSIRG. TMP’S SILENCE HAS GIVEN HOMOPHOB AROUND THE WORLD A BLANK CHECK. NOT ONLY WILL AMERI NOT TERVENE— WON’T EVEN MAKE THE CTOMARY STATEMENTS AND GTUR OF NCERN. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, THE ADMISTRATN IS SAYG. IF THE CHECHENS N PUT GAYS NCENTRATN MPS AND THEIR LEAR ENURAG THEIR FAI TO KILL THEM, AND THE U.S. LEARSHIP SAYS NOTHG, WHAT N’T AN ANTI-GAY REGIME DO?4. HUMAN RIGHTS UNRMED“IT’S NOT JT LIBERAL MOCRACY DANGER,” SAID STERN, “IT’S THE LE OF LAW TERNATNALLY. IT’S THE TERNATNAL SYSTEM SELF. IT’S THE NOTN THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL AND SACRED. THAT’S WHAT’S AT STAKE WH THE TMP ADMISTRATN.” FOR NOW, LGBT PEOPLE BEG TORTURED KENYA, OR MURRED CAMEROON, OR ARRTED RSIA MAY APPEAL TO TERNATNAL NORMS AND EVEN TERNATNAL STUTNS FOR RELIEF. COURTS EVERYWHERE RPORATE THE STANDARDS—AND THE TREATI THAT IMPLEMENT THEM—TO THEIR OPNS. MEDIA OUTLETS REFER TO THEM. AND WHILE THERE HAS ED BEEN SOME BACKLASH AGAST SUCH NORMS, THE FACT IS THEY HAVE SAVED UNTLS LIV.AND NOW THEY ARE ALL DANGER, AS THE TMP ADMISTRATN REJECTS TERNATNALISM, THE UNED NATNS, TERNATNAL LAW, AND THE NCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS THAT THEY ALL STAND FOR.INED, THIS REGARD, LGBT PEOPLE ARE NOT UNIQUE; WE MAY JT BE THE “NARI THE ALME,” AS REP. MARK TAKANO (D-CA) SAID AT THE GATHERG. “WHENEVER OPEN VLENCE OCCURS AGAST AS A MORY, ’S A SIGNAL, A SIGN, A SYMPTOM.” IT’S NOT THAT LGBT PEOPLE ARE BEG SGLED OUT BY THE TMP ADMISTRATN; WE DON’T HAVE TO BE. UNRMG THE NOTN OF TERNATNAL HUMAN RIGHTS, LONG A DREAM OF THE PUT REGIME AND NOW A REALY OF THE “AMERI FIRST” TMP ADMISTRATN, VERS WOMEN, SEXUAL MORI, GENR MORI, ETHNIC MORI, RELIG MORI, POLIL DISSINTS, AND WOMEN ALL AT ONCE.5. AMERI’S EXAMPLEFALLY, THE “AMERIN EXAMPLE” HAS CULTURAL, AS WELL AS POLIL EFFECTS.“MY UNTRY, ST. LUCIA, HAS BEEN PART ENGLISH AND PART FRENCH,” PLACI TOLD ME. “YET AMERI HAS GREATER FLUENCE CULTURALLY. WE KNOW THAT ANYTHG THAT HAPPENS HERE, LIKE OR NOT, HAS A DIRECT IMPACT.”FOR EXAMPLE, PLACI SAID, “WHEN FRANCE AND THE U.K. GOT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WE [ACTIVISTS] DIDN’T GET ANY REQUTS OM THE MEDIA FOR TERVIEWS. BUT WHEN THE U.S. DID, EVERY STATN WANTED AN TERVIEW.  THEY ALL WANTED TO KNOW ‘WHAT DO YOU THK WILL BE THE IMPACT FOR THE REGN?’ SO WE UNRSTAND THE IMPACT.”ONCE AGA, NEHER TMP HIMSELF NOR HIS ADMISTRATN HAS TO SGLE OUT LGBT PEOPLE SPECIFILLY. WHEN YOU’VE GOT A VULGAR BULLY LLG PEOPLE NAM ON TWTER, BULLI EVERYWHERE KNOW WHOSE SI HE’S ON. WHEN THE PRINT RIS THE PRS, SCIENCE, SMOPOLANISM, AND LIBERAL VALU, REACTNARI EVERYWHERE KNOW WHOSE SI HE’S ON.EVEN IF THE LEGN OF NSERVATIVE EVANGELILS THE TMP ADMISTRATN WEREN’T PROMULGATG “PRO-FAY” POLICI, EVEN IF THE RELIG RIGHT WEREN’T CROWG OVER S NEW FLUENCE AND NEW HAND-PICKED SUPREME COURT JTICE, THE CULTURAL EFFECT OF AMERI’S FAR-RIGHTWARD TURN WOULD BE ENORMO. ANYONE WHO DON’T SEE HOW THE TMP ADMISTRATN IS VASTATG LGBT PEOPLE TERNATNALLY IS EHER WILLFULLY IGNORANT OR TRAGILLY APATHETIC. SURE, LUCKY AMERIN GAYS N STILL GET MARRIED, BUT OVERSEAS, ALREADY-VULNERABLE POPULATNS HAVE BEEN TRAGILLY ENDANGERED BY THE NEW ADMISTRATN.IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR LGBT POPULATNS AROUND THE WORLD? ONLY THE HOPE OF RISTANCE.“FOR ME,” SAID OROZ, “’S ABOUT UNRSTANDG THAT I STARTED THIS WORK AGAST THE ODDS, BUT SPE THAT, I REMAED FIANT THAT THE ODDS AREN’T GOG TO STOP ME OM DOG THE WORK THAT I DO.”SAID STERN, “I DON’T THK ’S ALL BAD NEWS—THIS IS ALSO A MOMENT WHEN PEOPLE ARE WAKG UP AND SAYG ‘WE GOT OURSELV HERE AND WE’VE GOT TO GET OURSELV OUT OF .’”ALL THAT’S WELL AND GOOD, AND APPROPRIATE FOR PEOPLE TO SAY AT A FUNDRAISER.  FOR ME, HOWEVER, I KEPT THKG ABOUT SOMETHG KENA PLACI SAID, WHICH HAD MORE TO DO WH SURVIVAL THAN RISTANCE. “HOW DO WE AS CIVIL SOCIETY HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ISSU?” SHE ASKED. “AND HOW DO WE GET THROUGH THIS ADMISTRATN?” JAY MICHAELSON
• IN ONE DAY, TMP ADMISTRATN LANDS 3 PUNCH AGAST GAY RIGHTS

'GAYS FOR TMP' LEAR WANTS REPUBLINS TO STOP FOCG ON 'STUPID GRAY AREAS'

Once 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 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.

HOW THE ‘TMP EFFECT’ IS ENDANGERG LGBT PEOPLE WORLDWIAMERICA LASTINTERNATNAL ACTIVISTS SAY THE EFFECTS OF THE TMP ADMISTRATN’S ACTNS (AND ACTNS) ARE ALREADY BEG FELT. GAY REPUBLINS EHER DON’T KNOW OR DON’T RE.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED MAY 22, 2017 12:19PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 19, 2017 1:00AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTTHE “TMP EFFECT” IS NOW A GLOBAL PHENOMENON—AND NOT SURPRISGLY, ’S HURTG THE MOST VULNERABLE.THAT’S THE LSON I TOOK OM A GATHERG NVENED AT THE UNED NATNS THIS WEEK BY OUTRIGHT INTERNATNAL, A LEADG TERNATNAL LGBT RIGHTS ANIZATN. OSTENSIBLY, WAS A BENEF GALA, AND THERE WAS PLENTY OF BOOZE FLOWG BENEATH THE BETIFUL SPRG SKY. BUT TALKG WH ACTIVISTS I’VE KNOWN FOR YEARS—AND WHOSE WORK WE’VE VERED THE PAG BEFORE—I GOT A MUCH MORE SOMBER VIEW OF THE DAMAGE THAT THE TMP ADMISTRATN HAS ALREADY DONE TO LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD.“EVERY CISN AND EVERY MOVE THAT HAPPENS THE UNED STAT HAS A WAVE OF IMPACT THE CARIBBEAN,” SAID KENA PLACI, A ST. LUCIA-BASED ACTIVIST WHO IS ALSO A REGNAL ADVISER FOR OUTRIGHT. TALKG WH PLACI AND OTHER ACTIVISTS, FIVE MAJOR TRENDS EMERGED.1. THE RELIG RIGHT’S DELIGHT FIRST, THE RISE OF TMP, WHO OW HIS PRINCY TO THE RELIG RIGHT, HAS EMBOLNED RELIG NSERVATIV EVERYWHERE.  CALEB OROZ, WHO LED THE EFFORTS TO OVERTURN BELIZE’S ANTI-SODOMY LAW—AN EFFORT THAT ME TO UN LAST YEAR—SAID THAT “FOR ME, MY MA WORRY IS SEEG HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FAH-BASED SAYG THEY WANT REGRSN ON LGBT PROGRS.” SPECIFILLY, OROZ SAID, RELIG-RIGHT ACTIVISTS BELIZE HAVE SENT A LETTER TO THE TMP ADMISTRATN “SAYG THEY WANT A U.S. AMBASSADOR WHO SHAR THEIR VALU.” THAT IS A VERY REAL POSSIBILY, GIVEN TMP’S ELECTORAL BASE, AND WOULD SHIFT THE POLIL DYNAMIC AGAST LGBT PEOPLE THE SMALL LAT AMERIN UNTRY.MORE BROADLY, SAID JSI STERN, OUTRIGHT’S DIRECTOR, “WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT THIS ERNMENT DO, WHO ELECTED , AND THE WAY THIS CHASM OF U.S. LEARSHIP EMBOLNS THE RELIG RIGHT GLOBALLY.” STERN SAID THAT THIS ‘EMBOLNG’ IS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON, EVEN LGBT-IENDLY PLAC LIKE THE NETHERLANDS AND THE UNED KGDOM.PLACI POTED OUT THAT THE ROLE OF U.S. EVANGELILS SHAPG OTHER UNTRI’ POLICI TOWARD LGBT PEOPLE IS NOT NEW. “EVEN WHOUT TMP,” SHE SAID, “YOU ALREADY SAW HOW U.S. EVANGELILS WERE MOVG .  BUT NOW THE FLOODGAT ARE OPEN… THE RIGHT-WG IS GOG TO ADVANCE FURTHER THAN THEY HAVE EVER BEFORE, WHOUT HAVG TO WORK FOR AS MUCH AS WE HAD TO WORK FOR . THEY ARE BEG HAND STUFF.”AMERINS MAY NOT SEE TMP’S VICTORY AS A VICTORY FOR ANTI-GAY, ANTI-WOMEN RELIG NSERVATIV, BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVERSEAS.2. LOSS OF FUNDGSEND, THERE ARE THE BRASS TACKS OF U.S. FUNDG, PARTICULARLY FOR HIV PREVENTN, AND FOR SUPPORT OF TY LGBT ANIZATNS REPRSIVE SOCIETI. “WHERE THE CARIBBEAN IS NCERNED, THE IMPACT OF U.S. POLICY HAS BEEN GREAT,” SAID PLACI. “OUR ENTIRE HIV PROGRAM WAS MOSTLY U.S.-FUND.”AND WH THE STATE DEPARTMENT UNRSTAFFED (TENTNALLY, NOW APPEARS) AND FOREIGN AID BEG CIMATED TMP’S BUDGET, SEEMS CERTA THAT THE TENS OF LNS OF DOLLARS THE U.S. SPENDS ON PROTECTG LGBT PEOPLE OM PERSECUTN, AND PROTECTG EVERYONE OM HIV, WILL BE ELIMATED. SUCH SUMS ARE A MCULE AMOUNT OF MONEY THE NTEXT OF THE OVERALL FERAL BUDGET, BUT THEY ARE A LIFELE FOR HIV SERVIC AND LGBT PROTECTNS PLAC WHERE BEG GAY IS A PAL CRIME.PLACI SAID THIS FUNDG HAS ALREADY BEEN CUT BACK LOLLY, ANTICIPATN OF CUTS U.S. SUPPORT. “THE IMPACT IS REAL,” SHE SAID. “A LOT OF FUNDG HAS BEEN PULLED, A LOT OF LIV HAVE ALREADY BEEN DAMAGED. PEOPLE ARE STEPPG ON EGGSHELLS BEE OF THE FEAR AND UNCERTATY OF WHAT’S NEXT.”3. A BLANK CHECK FOR BIGOTS“AMERI SETS AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD,” OROZ TOLD ME. WHEN THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS THAT LGBT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS (THAT SECRETARY OF STATE WAS HILLARY CLTON), THAT CHANG POLICI AND CULTUR WORLDWI. WHEN THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS ABSOLUTELY NOTHG ABOUT LGBT PEOPLE, THAT SILENCE, TOO, SENDS A CLEAR MSAGE.“A REALLY CLEAR EXAMPLE OF THIS IS THE TRAGEDY UNFOLDG BEFORE OUR EY CHECHNYA,” SAID STERN. “THERE ARE STILL OVER 100 MEN RCERATED. THIS IS A BLACK-AND-WHE HUMAN-RIGHTS VLATN: ARBRARY ARRT, CTODIAL MISNDUCT, TORTURE, AND EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLG. AND YET WE HAVE NO MENT ON THE RERD OM THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE OR THE U.S. PRINT.” THAT IS ED REMARKABLE: WHILE THE STATE DEPARTMENT DID SEND OUT A PRS RELEASE, NEHER SECRETARY OF STATE REX TILLERSON NOR PRINT TMP EVEN BROACHED THE ISSUE THEIR MEETGS WH RSIAN OFFICIALS— NTRAST TO GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL, FOR EXAMPLE.“IF AMERIN LEARSHIP N’T SPEAK OUT WHEN THE EFFECTS ARE SO GRAVE,” ASKED STERN, “WHEN N WE EXPECT THEM TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT ANY LGBTI [I FOR TERSEX] ISSUE OR ANY HUMAN-RIGHTS ISSUE?”THAT IS A POT WORTH NSIRG. TMP’S SILENCE HAS GIVEN HOMOPHOB AROUND THE WORLD A BLANK CHECK. NOT ONLY WILL AMERI NOT TERVENE— WON’T EVEN MAKE THE CTOMARY STATEMENTS AND GTUR OF NCERN. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, THE ADMISTRATN IS SAYG. IF THE CHECHENS N PUT GAYS NCENTRATN MPS AND THEIR LEAR ENURAG THEIR FAI TO KILL THEM, AND THE U.S. LEARSHIP SAYS NOTHG, WHAT N’T AN ANTI-GAY REGIME DO?4. HUMAN RIGHTS UNRMED“IT’S NOT JT LIBERAL MOCRACY DANGER,” SAID STERN, “IT’S THE LE OF LAW TERNATNALLY. IT’S THE TERNATNAL SYSTEM SELF. IT’S THE NOTN THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL AND SACRED. THAT’S WHAT’S AT STAKE WH THE TMP ADMISTRATN.” FOR NOW, LGBT PEOPLE BEG TORTURED KENYA, OR MURRED CAMEROON, OR ARRTED RSIA MAY APPEAL TO TERNATNAL NORMS AND EVEN TERNATNAL STUTNS FOR RELIEF. COURTS EVERYWHERE RPORATE THE STANDARDS—AND THE TREATI THAT IMPLEMENT THEM—TO THEIR OPNS. MEDIA OUTLETS REFER TO THEM. AND WHILE THERE HAS ED BEEN SOME BACKLASH AGAST SUCH NORMS, THE FACT IS THEY HAVE SAVED UNTLS LIV.AND NOW THEY ARE ALL DANGER, AS THE TMP ADMISTRATN REJECTS TERNATNALISM, THE UNED NATNS, TERNATNAL LAW, AND THE NCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS THAT THEY ALL STAND FOR.INED, THIS REGARD, LGBT PEOPLE ARE NOT UNIQUE; WE MAY JT BE THE “NARI THE ALME,” AS REP. MARK TAKANO (D-CA) SAID AT THE GATHERG. “WHENEVER OPEN VLENCE OCCURS AGAST AS A MORY, ’S A SIGNAL, A SIGN, A SYMPTOM.” IT’S NOT THAT LGBT PEOPLE ARE BEG SGLED OUT BY THE TMP ADMISTRATN; WE DON’T HAVE TO BE. UNRMG THE NOTN OF TERNATNAL HUMAN RIGHTS, LONG A DREAM OF THE PUT REGIME AND NOW A REALY OF THE “AMERI FIRST” TMP ADMISTRATN, VERS WOMEN, SEXUAL MORI, GENR MORI, ETHNIC MORI, RELIG MORI, POLIL DISSINTS, AND WOMEN ALL AT ONCE.5. AMERI’S EXAMPLEFALLY, THE “AMERIN EXAMPLE” HAS CULTURAL, AS WELL AS POLIL EFFECTS.“MY UNTRY, ST. LUCIA, HAS BEEN PART ENGLISH AND PART FRENCH,” PLACI TOLD ME. “YET AMERI HAS GREATER FLUENCE CULTURALLY. WE KNOW THAT ANYTHG THAT HAPPENS HERE, LIKE OR NOT, HAS A DIRECT IMPACT.”FOR EXAMPLE, PLACI SAID, “WHEN FRANCE AND THE U.K. GOT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WE [ACTIVISTS] DIDN’T GET ANY REQUTS OM THE MEDIA FOR TERVIEWS. BUT WHEN THE U.S. DID, EVERY STATN WANTED AN TERVIEW.  THEY ALL WANTED TO KNOW ‘WHAT DO YOU THK WILL BE THE IMPACT FOR THE REGN?’ SO WE UNRSTAND THE IMPACT.”ONCE AGA, NEHER TMP HIMSELF NOR HIS ADMISTRATN HAS TO SGLE OUT LGBT PEOPLE SPECIFILLY. WHEN YOU’VE GOT A VULGAR BULLY LLG PEOPLE NAM ON TWTER, BULLI EVERYWHERE KNOW WHOSE SI HE’S ON. WHEN THE PRINT RIS THE PRS, SCIENCE, SMOPOLANISM, AND LIBERAL VALU, REACTNARI EVERYWHERE KNOW WHOSE SI HE’S ON.EVEN IF THE LEGN OF NSERVATIVE EVANGELILS THE TMP ADMISTRATN WEREN’T PROMULGATG “PRO-FAY” POLICI, EVEN IF THE RELIG RIGHT WEREN’T CROWG OVER S NEW FLUENCE AND NEW HAND-PICKED SUPREME COURT JTICE, THE CULTURAL EFFECT OF AMERI’S FAR-RIGHTWARD TURN WOULD BE ENORMO. ANYONE WHO DON’T SEE HOW THE TMP ADMISTRATN IS VASTATG LGBT PEOPLE TERNATNALLY IS EHER WILLFULLY IGNORANT OR TRAGILLY APATHETIC. SURE, LUCKY AMERIN GAYS N STILL GET MARRIED, BUT OVERSEAS, ALREADY-VULNERABLE POPULATNS HAVE BEEN TRAGILLY ENDANGERED BY THE NEW ADMISTRATN.IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR LGBT POPULATNS AROUND THE WORLD? ONLY THE HOPE OF RISTANCE.“FOR ME,” SAID OROZ, “’S ABOUT UNRSTANDG THAT I STARTED THIS WORK AGAST THE ODDS, BUT SPE THAT, I REMAED FIANT THAT THE ODDS AREN’T GOG TO STOP ME OM DOG THE WORK THAT I DO.”SAID STERN, “I DON’T THK ’S ALL BAD NEWS—THIS IS ALSO A MOMENT WHEN PEOPLE ARE WAKG UP AND SAYG ‘WE GOT OURSELV HERE AND WE’VE GOT TO GET OURSELV OUT OF .’”ALL THAT’S WELL AND GOOD, AND APPROPRIATE FOR PEOPLE TO SAY AT A FUNDRAISER.  FOR ME, HOWEVER, I KEPT THKG ABOUT SOMETHG KENA PLACI SAID, WHICH HAD MORE TO DO WH SURVIVAL THAN RISTANCE. “HOW DO WE AS CIVIL SOCIETY HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ISSU?” SHE ASKED. “AND HOW DO WE GET THROUGH THIS ADMISTRATN?” JAY MICHAELSON

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. “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 also ced GOP tech entreprenr and megadonor Peter Thiel’s speech on the fal day of the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn, jt mut before Tmp himself took the stage, as emblematic of Tmp’s te feelgs about sexual inty Ameri. I am proud to be gay.

IN ONE DAY, TMP ADMISTRATN LANDS 3 PUNCH AGAST GAY RIGHTS

“‘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!

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? (2017)1 of 1Gays for Tmp?

(2017)TlGays for Tmp? But talkg wh activists I’ve known for years—and whose work we’ve vered the pag before—I got a much more somber view of the damage that the Tmp admistratn has already done to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people around the world. ”Amerins may not see Tmp’s victory as a victory for anti-gay, anti-women relig nservativ, but that is exactly what has happened overseas.

Such sums are a mcule amount of money the ntext of the overall feral budget, but they are a lifele for HIV servic and LGBT protectns plac where beg gay is a pal crime.

Tmp’s silence has given homophob around the world a blank check. If the Chechens n put gays ncentratn mps and their lear enurag their fai to kill them, and the U.