“We are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard,” Donald Tmp told a Log Cab Republins gala.
Contents:
- CANDIDATE DONALD TMP TALKS IMMIGRATN, GAY MARRIAGE AND ISIS
- WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
- TMP SAYS HE'S 'FE' WH GAY MARRIAGE '60 MUT' INTERVIEW
- NC GOP VOT TO CENSURE REPUBLIN U.S. SEN. THOM TILLIS, CG HIS RERD ON GAY MARRIAGE, IMMIGRATN
CANDIDATE DONALD TMP TALKS IMMIGRATN, GAY MARRIAGE AND ISIS
There were openly gay officials workg at the hight levels of the Tmp admistratn. And Congrs, the gay rights movement has found alli up and g Republin stars like Rep. 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.
WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
“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.
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.
TMP SAYS HE'S 'FE' WH GAY MARRIAGE '60 MUT' INTERVIEW
“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. ]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. Obama to support gay marriage.
NC GOP VOT TO CENSURE REPUBLIN U.S. SEN. THOM TILLIS, CG HIS RERD ON GAY MARRIAGE, IMMIGRATN
Aln that had been expected June, blamg the lay on the now Tmp officials are turng to Richard Grenell, the openly gay former U. Tmp is the “most pro-gay print Amerin history.
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. Grenell specifilly mentned gays and lbians, but not transgenr the night before Mr.
Tmp as supportive of gay people bee he appoted Mr. ”Some admistratn officials have acknowledged that they see targetg transgenr rights as different om gay rights.