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Contents:

• AS RICHARD GRENELL ADDRS RNC, GOP PLATFORM STILL OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• RNC DOUBL DOWN ON GAY MARRIAGE STANCE AMID CONSERVATIVE PRSURE
• DANA LOCH AND GOPROUD CHAIRMAN RPOND TO MEDIAE’S RNC DEBATE ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STORY
• RNC PASS UNANIMO ROLUTN AFFIRMG GOP IS STILL AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

AS RICHARD GRENELL ADDRS RNC, GOP PLATFORM STILL OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

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RNC DOUBL DOWN ON GAY MARRIAGE STANCE AMID CONSERVATIVE PRSURE

There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights. Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay.

Hedge fund billnaire and Republin donor Pl Sger quietly donated to pro-gay rights and formed the Amerin Uny PAC and Amerin Uny Fund, which fights for LGBTQ and relig eedom. The real breakthrough, gay Republin operativ say, me wh the nomatn of Donald Tmp. Though evangelils flocked to his ndidacy, nservative gay rights activists also saw an opportuny.

A smopolan md bs person, Tmp did not prrize LGBTQ issu durg his mpaign and, fact, ma overt appeals to gay voters, though not by pledgg support for laws to protect them. “For the first time we got to walk to the race wh a ndidate we didn’t have to apologize for or expla away his reluctance to embrace the gay muny. Probably Reagan was the last ndidate where we were like ‘this ndidate has gay iends, ’” said Charl Moran, spokperson for Log Cab Republins, a LGBTQ GOP group.

DANA LOCH AND GOPROUD CHAIRMAN RPOND TO MEDIAE’S RNC DEBATE ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STORY

Gay rights activists and Republins acknowledge there is still much work to be done wh the GOP. Gay rights advot the party said Republins missed an opportuny to change the platform’s text 2020.

His admistratn mted to endg the HIV/AIDS epimic wh 10 years and phed to crimalize homosexualy abroad. “Donald Tmp’s embrace of people who are LGBT tly did help make OK to be an out, gay Republin, ” said former Whe Hoe puty prs secretary Judd Deere.

“As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships. “I thk even wh Christians the gay [marriage] issue, that ship has sailed.

RNC PASS UNANIMO ROLUTN AFFIRMG GOP IS STILL AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell is schled to speak to the Republin Natnal Conventn on Wednday night, beg only the third openly gay man to addrs the Grand Old Party’s quadrennial event. Grenell, who served as actg director of natnal telligence for several months earlier this year and th beme the first openly gay Cabet official, recently appeared a vio produced by the Log Cab Republins, a gay nservative group, which he lled Tmp “the most pro-gay print” while Tmp is the first Republin print to verbalize his support for same-sex marriage (before he was elected 2016, he told Bill O’Reilly he opposed ), the party he helms still officially oppos gay unns — five years after they beme legal across the Uned a rolutn passed Saturday, the Republin Natnal Commtee cid not to adopt a new platform this year (somethg the GOP has done every printial year sce 1856, acrdg to The New York Tim). Erickson spearhead the anizatn’s efforts to mobilize morate Amerins to support marriage for gay upl by changg the nversatn om legal rights and benefs to the importance of makg a lifetime mment ont of fay and iends.

”Of urse, wasn’t so long ago when same-sex marriage was a non-starter for elected Democrats, the 2004 printial electn, the issue prented a polil quagmire for former senator and secretary of state John Kerry, a Massachetts Democrat who at the time opposed gay marriage but also opposed legislatn that would amend the nstutn to fe marriage as beg between a man and a woman. ”Support for gay marriage among the Amerin public and both parti has ntued to rise.

“The gay marriage change is unlike almost anythg else terms of how much public opn has changed a short number of years, ” he says. Ron DeSantis and his “Don’t Say Gay” law to the newly adopted Texas Republin platform, which refers to homosexualy as “an abnormal liftyle choice.