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THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
What ma Tmp different, however, was his abily to make his LGBTQ-iendly reputatn to an asset — or at least not a fic — on the natnal stage, the very thg that blue-state Republins seekg their party’s printial nomatn had failed at the the late 1970s, LGBTQ Republins began formg small anizatns lled Lln Clubs and Log Cab Clubs to work agast anti-gay ballot iativ sprgg up natnwi. Hedgeck pecially reached out to gay voters; his mpaign slogan, “Mayor for all San Diegans, ” suggted that he planned to brg tolerant polics to a nservative town. Pete Wilson met wh LGBTQ Republins and promised to support gay rights, cludg anti-discrimatn ordanc and greater protectns for people wh HIV/AIDS.
They ltily cheered a stream of anti-gay rhetoric. Guiliani “is pro-choice … pro-gay marriage, and anti-gun, ” Romney told the Christian Broadstg Network. Its first vio featur Grenell llg Tmp “the most pro-gay print Amerin history, ” a claim swiftly dismissed by The Washgton Post as “absurd.
Sce the 1970s, gay Amerins have routely given the GOP as much as a quarter of their vote printial electns, even as relig nservativ me to domate the Republin Party and actively opposed their fundamental rights. Instead of a new directn for the GOP, Tmp’s approach may only differ rhetorilly om tradnal GOP the early 1970s, LGBTQ Republins California began to anize for the first time small groups, such as San Francis’s Gay Voters League and San Diego’s Teddy Roosevelt Republin Club, the hop of phg the party a libertarian — and sometim liberal — directn. “Gay Republins are begng to e out of the woodwork, ” Dorr Legg, a lear the Lln Republins of Southern California group, told the Bay Area Reporter the sprg of 1978.