Gay Republins who have fought for acceptance wh the Texas GOP over the past three s told The Texas Tribune progrs has been excciatgly slow. Many of them have left the party, even as the number of Log Cab Republins Texas ntu to grow.
Contents:
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- SHE’S GAY AND A REPUBLIN. IS THERE A PLACE FOR HER THE G.O.P.?
- FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
- COLUMN: THK ‘GAY REPUBLIN’ IS A NTRADICTN? THK AGA
- MEET THE GAY REPUBLIN WHO HELPED FEAT EVERY ANTI-LGBTQ BILL WYOMG
- “WE FAILED”: GAY REPUBLINS WHO FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE TEXAS GOP SEE LTLE PROGRS
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * are there gay republicans *
In orr to better unrstand the relatnship between sexual mory and polil inti, we examed five ditors that scribe the relatnship people have wh their lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) inty and their nnectn wh the LGBT muny.
In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. ” Cox and Polis are eager to set off on an odd uple roadshow, the former Mormon missnary om ral Utah and gay multilnaire om Boulr.
Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man. The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.
SHE’S GAY AND A REPUBLIN. IS THERE A PLACE FOR HER THE G.O.P.?
Sce Dan Zwonzer first joed the Wyomg Hoe 2005, at least six bills targetg gay and transgenr people have been feated. * are there gay republicans *
One signal — Jtice Clarence Thomas wrote a ncurrg opn that, alongsi abortn, lgs protectg same-sex relatnships and marriage should also be Ann Henry n remember a moment jt a few years ago when she felt there might be a possibily that the Republin uld actually move forward on gay rights. And wh a half e —lulu garcia-navarroI image that that environment there weren’t a lot out gay and lbian people around you.
I thk there was a gay male uple our neighborhood that everybody jt sort of referred to as “The Boys” and didn’t want to say what they were.
FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
But we don’t do garcia-navarroDo you remember when you might have first heard the word gay or lbian, what you thought about those words and people who are associated wh them? The word lbian — I thk I had — maybe more than the word gay, the word lbian was maybe almost ed as a rogatory term. Whether she plays for our team, the gay ’t the bisexuals have their own team?
And we’re all stg around talkg about datg and whatnot, and one of my iends who was gay and out said somethg.
COLUMN: THK ‘GAY REPUBLIN’ IS A NTRADICTN? THK AGA
You said there were two ann henryThe send story was, I was on an email thread wh a ton of people, and they were batg — there was a ton of people, nsultants and otherwise, Republin staffers at many different levels on a number of different projects, talkg back and forth about how to navigate some tough polil issu related to gay dividuals. Everybody had an opn about, oh, well, we n’t say this bee the gays would thk that.
Or what about the gays here? And was like this cliche “the gays, ” “the gays, ” “the gays, ” jt very broad I jt replied to all, and I was like as a lbian who n wear high heels but also manage power tools, I thk you guys are all a ltle b garcia-navarroYou did reply all?
MEET THE GAY REPUBLIN WHO HELPED FEAT EVERY ANTI-LGBTQ BILL WYOMG
None of them are prumably openly gay? There were many people that I knew that I worked wh that — they may have accepted me and loved me personally but did not support homosexualy for relig reasons or whatever, and I knew that.
This is a moment where the Republin Party is still really phg back agast gay rights.
I wonr, as you nsired whether would be possible to be out wh the reer you had chosen, how you sort of unrstood that dichotomy of the posn, though, polilly on gay rights?
“WE FAILED”: GAY REPUBLINS WHO FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE TEXAS GOP SEE LTLE PROGRS
Archived rerdgWh rpect to the issue of whether gays and lbians should be able to get married, I stggle wh this. As a nservative, didn’t really give me pse bee I learned so early on and still hold as my own belief, dividual liberty is so herent to what mak, I thk, Ameri different and what we should be supportg and should be much of what I saw as issue was not jt bee of my personal tert as a gay Amerin but bee I felt was ntrary to that belief. Issu for ann garcia-navarroAnd gay marriage is the ma thg on the agenda.