Who Is Joseph Ziegler, the Gay IRS Whistleblower Hunter Bin Probe?

Contents:

• PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• MEET THE GAY REPUBLIN WHO HELPED FEAT EVERY ANTI-LGBTQ BILL WYOMG
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• ARE GAY REPUBLINS OK? NEW REARCH CASTS DOUBT
• FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
• GAY REPUBLIN GROUP BANNED OM GOP NVENTN

PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL

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

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Only 41% of Republins a new Gallup poll said gay or lbian relatns were morally acceptable.

The right-wg mpaign to tar LGBTQ people wh false allegatns of pedophilia appears to be havg an impact on Republins, a majory of whom said a recent poll that same-sex relatns were the poll last month, the latt edn of a survey that Gallup nducts annually, jt 41% of Republins said gay or lbian relatns were morally acceptable, a 15-percentage-pot drop om 2022. Democratic approval also fell to 79% om share of pennts sayg same-sex relatns are morally acceptable has remaed steady the Gallup poll recent years, wh 73% exprsg approval 2023 pared wh 72% the year sharp drop support among some Amerins follows an pecially aggrsive year of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and the past year, right-wg activists and policians have creasgly attacked LGBTQ muni, claimg that public-school teachers are "groomg" stunts by acknowledgg the existence of gay or transgenr attacks have led school districts across the untry to pull books om librari over claims that pictns of gay or transgenr relatnships are "pornographic.

MEET THE GAY REPUBLIN WHO HELPED FEAT EVERY ANTI-LGBTQ BILL WYOMG

Overall, 64% of Amerins the latt Gallup poll said gay or lbian relatns were "morally acceptable, " still a nsirable difference om 2001, when jt 40% of rponnts to the same poll exprsed approval of "homosexual behavr, " as the qutn was word at the time. Approval of gay and lbian relatns the Gallup poll h a rerd high last year, when 71% of Amerins said such relatns were morally permissible — cludg 56% of Republins. Correctn: June 21, 2023 — An earlier versn of this story misstated the change sce 2022 the share of Republins who told Gallup that gay or lbian relatns were morally acceptable.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

”"I don't base my vote on my beg gay.

An unscientific survey last month by the gay social app Hor dited that 45 percent of s Amerin rponnts were votg to re-elect the print. 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.

If you're gay, specifilly, Democrat propaganda stat that the Republins are gog to take away your rights. "Kazmierczak lled Tmp a “stnch supporter of gay people and their rights, ” but he said he mak a distctn when to relig groups. "He don't want gay rights forced on relig stutns, " Kazmierczak said.

ARE GAY REPUBLINS OK? NEW REARCH CASTS DOUBT

"It don't mean that he don't support gay people. On May 31, 2019, he regnized June as Pri Month for the first time a seri of tweets that doubled down on his mment to crimalizg homosexualy abroad. It ma Grenell the first openly gay person named to a Cabet-level months later, Grenell was appoted the Tmp mpaign's senr adviser on LGBTQ outreach.

On social media, he praised his boss as "the most pro-gay print Amerin history. "I don't base my vote on my beg gay. I don't see direct anti-gay rhetoric om the print himself.

"Many gay Tmp supporters say they're tired of beg told what polil views are acceptable. "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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE

"You're acced of beg a racist or a homophobe if you don't agree wh everythg they say, and a lot of people are jt tired of that. "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. #WalkAway founr Brandon Straka wh Jeane Pirro on Fox NewsIn 2018, Brandon Straka was an unknown gay hairstylist and aspirg actor.

"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? Dan Inn, real tate veloper Jill Homan and var members of the Log Cab Smh, a Black gay Iraq War veteran, is on the Tmp Pri board. S., is still the GOP's official platform, Smh isn't worried about gay rights beg on the choppg block.

"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. "We don't need lears to say, 'Hey, gay people, we're gog to do the thgs for you, ' bee a risg ti lifts all boats, " he said.

GAY REPUBLIN GROUP BANNED OM GOP NVENTN

"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.

"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 2020, gays and lbians have choic polilly that we did not have 20 years ago. "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. "Trans rights: A ‘perplexg’ issueLike many other gay nservativ, however, he seems to disnnect gay rights and transgenr rights. Aaron Schock, while the mpaign’s store sells T-shirts bearg slogans like "gay for Tucker" "gay for Melania" and "gay not stupid.