20 years ago, LGBT media swooned over Donald Tmp's support for gay rights

Contents:

• WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• 20 YEARS AGO, LGBT MEDIA SWOONED OVER DONALD TMP’S SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• DONALD TMP’S MORE ACCEPTG VIEWS ON GAY ISSU SET HIM APART G.O.P.

WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?

Democrats are g their nventn this week to tout their agenda for the next four years, cludg their promise to stand up for the lbian and gay muny. For years, Democratic Party lears have taken for granted the lbian and gay muny — along wh other mory muni — thkg they had no where else to turn.

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.

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.

20 YEARS AGO, LGBT MEDIA SWOONED OVER DONALD TMP’S SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS

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. Actns speak lour than wordsMary Rowland, a member of the Lbian & Gay Bar Associatn of Chigo, was nfirmed 2019 as a feral district judge for the U. 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.

DONALD TMP’S MORE ACCEPTG VIEWS ON GAY ISSU SET HIM APART G.O.P.

Robert Kabel is the chairman of Log Cab Republins and thor of "Insi and Out: The Odyssey of a Gay Conservative, " which will be published Sept. ]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. People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr.