Tmp Tells Gay Supporter 'You Don't Look Gay' at Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser

Contents:

• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
• TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
• DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
• GAY VOTERS SHARE WHY THEY ARE VOTG FOR PRINT TMP
• TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER
• TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

]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.

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

Tmp’s embrace of iativ promotg relig eedom has been ed by people si and outsi his ernment to jtify discrimatn agast gay and transgenr Kelly/RtersOver many years, Mr. Tmp was qutned about whether he would nsir rcdg his ban on transgenr people enterg the ary by a reporter for The Washgton Bla, a gay Tmp gtured to his ch, appearg to signal the reporter’s mask was mufflg him. But a Morng Consult poll om June found 19 percent of LGBTQ voters backed Tmp, while GLAAD's State of LGBTQ Voters report September reported jt 17 percent of LGBTQ registered voters were supportg the 's poll rults were siar to ex poll fdgs om 2016, which found that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr voters backed Hillary Clton over Tmp by 74 percent to 14 percent.

'100 percent on board'While the precise numbers may be uncerta, Tmp's msage is appealg to some segment of the LGBTQ Kazmierczak, a gay real tate agent Virgia who said he's "100 percent on board" wh the print, blam Democrats for fixatg on inty polics. "A lot of people jt don't like to be told they n only thk a certa way, and that's exactly what the left do, " said Bob Kabel, chair of the Log Cab Republins, a natnal gay nservative group.

TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN

"Others have rporated their support for Team Tmp to their fluencer brands, like lbian YouTuber Arielle Srcella, gay polil mentator Dave Rub and bi glam rocker Ricky Rebel, who appeared at the Grammys red leather chaps wh the words "IMPEACH THIS" wrten across his backsi.

"Some voters are askg themselv, 'Do I vote as a gay person who is worried about my eedom and equaly, or do I vote as someone who's fearful for what the hell is gog on my untry?

"Right now, there are so many gays and lbians that are beg manipulated and ma to feel that they're unr nstant attack all the time by this admistratn, which is jt not the se, " he said. "If Tmp is helpg stimulate the enomy, if he is helpg wd down forever wars, if he is dog thgs that benef Ameri, then gay and lbian Amerins are gog to benef, as well.

DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM

"The Democrats are takg the gay muny for granted, acrdg to Smh, who said his goal on the Tmp Pri advisory board is to reach younger LGBTQ people "so that they don't see themselv as victims. "In July, the Log Cab Republins lnched OUTSpoken, a multimedia mpaign signed to "bat the half-tths, misreprentatns and outright li that the gay left and the mastream media proliferate.

"Asked about Tmp's attu toward the LGBTQ muny, Kabel offered a seri of well-rehearsed talkg pots: Tmp is "the most gay-iendly print, " same-sex marriage is settled law, Tmp-nomated Supreme Court Jtice Neil Gorsuch wrote the pro-LGBTQ cisn Bostock v. ”OUTspoken sent Brokeback Patrt, who has stated trans women are not women, to New Orleans’ Southern Dence party to ask passersby if they thk Tmp is “pro-gay. Acrdg to the GLAAD poll, however, 19 percent of trans and nonbary registered voters were supportg Tmp — more than eher gay men (17 percent) or lbians (11 percent).

GAY VOTERS SHARE WHY THEY ARE VOTG FOR PRINT TMP

"He poted to the admistratn's mpaign to crimalize homosexualy, which, a year and a half after was announced by Grenell, "has acplished lerally nothg, " he said. Far om protectg , he and his admistratn have strand , packg feral urts wh judg hostile to gay rights, barrg transgenr Amerins om ary service and givg a green light to Amerins who, cg relig beliefs, don’t want to give medil re or bake a ke.

When several Uned Stat embassi — cludg the one Berl, over which Grenell pris — requted permissn to fly the rabow flag this month honor of Gay Pri, the State Department said no. His treatment of gay people perfectly reveals the flabbs of his nvictns and his willgns to stand at odds wh a majory of Amerins if pleas the smaller number who adore him. As gay and transgenr Amerins prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg on June 28, we hab a state of gnive dissonance, starg at a spl screen: sults om the Whe Hoe on one half of , posive rercement om elsewhere on the Krzaczynski/Agence France-Prse, via Getty ImagDemocrats’ embrace of Buttigieg, the first openly gay polician to land the top tier of printial ndidat, illtrat the trajectory beyond Tmp.

TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER

In Colorado, five Republin lawmakers voted favor of a bill that banned anti-gay nversn therapy for mors, and six Republins, cludg some of the same on, voted to make easier for transgenr people to have the genr on their birth certifit changed.

Acrdg to Freedom for All Amerins, an advocy group, more than two dozen Republin lawmakers 15 stat recently sponsored legislatn to protect gay or transgenr people om discrimatn. Tmp has nomated and the Senate has nfirmed many jurists wh explic, unabashed hostily to gay and transgenr rights, cludg, jt days ago, Matthew Kacsmaryk, who received a lifetime appotment as a Uned Stat district judge for the Northern District of Texas. This is a man who 2015 wrote that gay rights were part of a sexual revolutn that was “rooted the soil of elist postmorn philosophy” and “sought public affirmatn of the lie that the human person is an tonomo blob of Silly Putty unnstraed by nature or blogy, and that marriage, sexualy, genr inty and even the unborn child mt yield to the erotic sir of liberated adults.

TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER

Tmp’s relatively benign ments before beg elected did nothg to prepare Mter for the ban on openly transgenr people the ary and for his admistratn’s edicts, efforts or clared tentns to elimate protectns for transgenr people the Affordable Care Act, allow health re workers to ce relig beliefs refg to treat gay or transgenr people, let ferally fund hog shelters ny accs to transgenr people, make easier for adoptn agenci to turn away same-sex upl and more. Print Tmp beme the first print to name an openly gay person to a Cabet-level posn this week wh the appotment of Richard Grenell as actg director of natnal telligence. The iative followed the reported hangg of a gay man Iran, one of the Tmp admistratn’s adversari, and an op-ed for a German news publitn Grenell voiced a ll to arms.

Sce the 2016 electn and even before, there has been a persistent meme, sometim the form of prott art or jok by edians, posg Print Donald Tmp and Rsian Print Vladimir Put as gay lovers.

Well-meang liberals eher aren’t able to discern that ’s not a gay thg, or they’re not terted aimg higher than the lazit, most offensive joke isn’t homosexual or bisexual ― at least, not based on any rmatn we have. But there have been allegatns of leerg at teenage girls at bety pageants, and, of urse, sexual harassment and asslt agast women, which he’s bragged about on tape and bshed off when asked about is, however, stnchly homosocial.