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Contents:
- “WE FAILED”: GAY REPUBLINS WHO FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE TEXAS GOP SEE LTLE PROGRS
- LOG CAB REPUBLIN PRAIS TMP, ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ AND TRANS HATE
“WE FAILED”: GAY REPUBLINS WHO FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE TEXAS GOP SEE LTLE PROGRS
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. * log cabin gay *
In June 1998, a group of gay and lbian nservativ, phg for greater reprentatn at the Texas Republin Party nventn Fort Worth, found themselv a ighteng clash wh members of their own party.
Counterprotters surround the Log Cab members, wieldg signs wh homophobic slurs and phras like “The Gay Life = AIDS Then Hell.
” They phed and spat and shoved their fgers the fac of the gay Republins. But was a vivid display of homophobia wh the party.
LOG CAB REPUBLIN PRAIS TMP, ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ AND TRANS HATE
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The party adopted a platform June at s nventn Hoton clarg that “homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice. 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.
Carpenter relled that the ’90s, the primary missn was to achieve acceptance of gay members wh the state party. “We asked ourselv om time to time, are you gay first and Republin send, or are you Republin first and gay send? In 1990, the GOP party platform lled homosexualy “blogilly and morally unsound” and pared same-sex relatnships to “necrophilia, pedophilia, btialy, or ct.
Pl von Wupperfeld, a gay man who lived At at the time, nsired himself polilly right of center and favor of limed ernment. Gay Republins were hard to e by back then — many had bee disillned wh the Republin Party due part to Print Ronald Reagan’s handlg of the HIV/AIDS panmic the 1980s. In 1990, the Travis County GOP Conventn was opened by a gay men’s chos.
In a lumn, gay Republin Charl Moran slams Texas for llg homosexualy 'abnormal' while claimg the former print ma the untry more LGBTQ+ clive. * log cabin gay *
The Travis County GOP add language s 1994 platform opposg “homosexual tn” public schools, acrdg to a news article published after the change.
The Galvton County GOP lled for all HIV patients to be quaranted, a cisn Log Cab members said was tend to target gay people, who were disproportnately affected by the vis. Bh] agast the amoral ia that gay and lbian upl should have the same standg law as married men and women, ” Buchanan said. “And we were up agast thoands and thoands of very anized activists who really only red about two thgs: abortn and homosexualy.
In more recent years, the Texas GOP has softened some of s homophobic language. In 2016, removed s explic endorsement of “reparative therapy, ” a bunked and harmful treatment that claims to turn gay people straight, but still ma a pot of cg s availabily "for self-motivated youth and adults. " The state party also retaed the official posn that said “homosexualy is a chosen behavr that is ntrary to the fundamental unchangg tths that has been ordaed by God the Bible.