Tmp Pri: Gay Republins on why they're backg the print

Contents:

• WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
• IF YOU'RE GAY AND SUPPORT TMP, YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE RT OF US
• THE FOM BUILT FOR STANNG TMP HAS PIVOTED TO HATG GAY PEOPLE
• TMP APPLDS POLL SHOWG 45 PERCENT SUPPORT AMONG GAY MEN
• TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER

WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?

The print's LGBTQ supporters say that the Tmp admistratn has ma gay rights a "non-issue, " cg his iendships wh gay men and his appotment of at least two openly gay feral judg. Tmp pick and former Actg Director of Natnal Intelligence Richard Grennell claimed Tmp is the "most pro-gay print history" a mpaign ad released on Twter Augt.

In the ad, he c Tmp's efforts to help the gay muny, cludg fight agast the "homophobic regime" of Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah. Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay Filipo-Amerin judge also selected by Tmp, was nfirmed to the US Court of Appeals for the Nth Circu December 2019.

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

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. "Kazmierczak lled Tmp a “stnch supporter of gay people and their rights, ” but he said he mak a distctn when to relig groups. 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.

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

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. "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.

"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?

IF YOU'RE GAY AND SUPPORT TMP, YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE RT OF US

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. "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. "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.

THE FOM BUILT FOR STANNG TMP HAS PIVOTED TO HATG GAY PEOPLE

"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.

”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.

TMP APPLDS POLL SHOWG 45 PERCENT SUPPORT AMONG GAY MEN

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). "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. ]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. Aln that had been expected June, blamg the lay on the now Tmp officials are turng to Richard Grenell, the openly gay former U.

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.

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

Transmissns the untry by 2030, and sayg the print “lnched a global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy, standg solidary wh all L.

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. Tmp to say that the party did not agree wh him on a number of issu, cludg gay marriage, even though he’d never publicly supported after Mr.

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.