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MATT SCHLAPP LEFT PREV JOB AFTER REVIEW INTO ‘ANTI-GAY REMARK’: REPORT
Early his time overseeg CPAC, Schlapp faced some backlash over efforts to be more clive of gay nservativ. But CPAC has bee creasgly wele ground for polil lears like Hungarian Prime Mister Viktor Orbán, who has targeted his untry’s gay muny as part of s Christian-nservative agenda.
Followg Thursday's report The Daily Beast, social media ers took to Twter to cricize Schlapp, the lead anizer of the Conservative Polil Actn Conference (CPAC), for anti-gay views that he's helped promote and spotlight over the years at the world's largt and most fluential gatherg of nservativ. "Matt Schlapp is the anizer of CPAC, who this year brought a fascist foreign dictator to give an anti-gay speech, " Ari Drennen, Media Matters' LGBTQ program director, tweeted referrg to Orban.
Chairman of the Conservative Polil Actn Conference (CPAC) Matt Schlapp speaks durg the annual nference at Gaylord Natnal Rort & Conventn Center on March 2, 2023, Natnal Harbor, Maryland. "Schlapp has been wily ridiculed for the anti-gay views that CPAC has helped spotlight, and the latt allegatns have renewed those annual nference has embraced anti-LGBTQ figur, like Hungarian Prime Mister Viktor Orbán, who received a standg ovatn at last year's event, while matag that members of the LGBTQ muny are weled at the ACU has ntued to fend Schlapp amid the allegatns, sayg that "We stand squarely behd Matt Schlapp, and the ACU Board of Directors has full nfince his learship of the anizatn. Republin activist Matt Schlapp prevly left a senr lobbyg job at Koch Indtri after the pany received a plat that he’d ma an “anti-gay remark, ” acrdg to a report.