‘Girls Gays Theys’ shirts aren’t obscene: Don’t let nservativ rewre history | The Hill

Contents:

• THE ANTI-INTY POLICS OF GAY NSERVATIV
• MEET BRANDON STRAKA, A GAY FORMER LIBERAL ENURAGG OTHERS TO #WALKAWAY OM DEMOCRATS
• ‘GIRLS GAYS THEYS’ SHIRTS AREN’T OBSCENE: DON’T LET NSERVATIV REWRE HISTORY
• I’M A GAY NSERVATIVE — I’M ANGRY THE LEFT IS G THE LEAKED SCOTUS DRAFT TO FEAR-MONGER ON GAY RIGHTS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

THE ANTI-INTY POLICS OF GAY NSERVATIV

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MEET BRANDON STRAKA, A GAY FORMER LIBERAL ENURAGG OTHERS TO #WALKAWAY OM DEMOCRATS

Distct om the long history of gay Republins who worked to make the GOP more clive and tried to ph a morate directn, the ntemporary LGBTQ right has stead helped sharpen the Republin Party's extreme edge and perhaps even emboln s anti-LGBTQ 's rise to fame — or famy — says a lot about what gets tractn nservative circl the days and how that's shapg the GOP. The "extremist left, " Straka argued, had bee nsumed wh a "cult iology" that se racism, sexism, and homophobia everywhere.

And Straka and other LGBTQ nservativ have ntued to make anti-tablishment, anti-inty arguments — such as attackg the strong alliance of most LGBTQ anizatns and the Democratic Party that they dismiss as "Gay Inc. Who better to prove you aren't a bigot than a gay man who says you are the biggt victim of bigotry today? Republin and LGBTThe Republin Party platform may not be as embracg of LGBT equaly as many would like — many would say 's embracg of equaly — but gay Republins see progrs party clivens.

‘GIRLS GAYS THEYS’ SHIRTS AREN’T OBSCENE: DON’T LET NSERVATIV REWRE HISTORY

Silin Valley billnaire Peter Thiel, a gay man, gets a prime time speakg slot Thursday, markg the first time 16 years that an openly gay man tak the stage at the GOP’s granst party. Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

I’M A GAY NSERVATIVE — I’M ANGRY THE LEFT IS G THE LEAKED SCOTUS DRAFT TO FEAR-MONGER ON GAY RIGHTS

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. ”Straka’s story of beg a whe, gay, Manhattan liberal-turned-nservative proved irristible to those on the right.

He said he faced vlence and discrimatn for beg gay his nservative high school, he moved to New York to pursue actg and sgg. ”“That’s what started to drive me away om liberalism, ” he said his “red-pillg” — or his journey om liberal to nservative — was furthered by watchg YouTube vios that alleged the “liberal media” was tryg to take down me to believe that news outlets nspired to pat Tmp as “the most racist, most homophobic, most horrible person the world” and ma so “anybody who supports him is pated as the same. Angelo, print of the gay nservative group Log Cab Republins, thks there’s potential #WalkAway, but only if nservativ n figure out how to harns s energy.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

An openly gay man, Miller also walked away, but the other directn: He nsirs himself a “#NeverTmp Republin. An NBC News ex poll om the 2016 printial electn found jt 14 percent of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr voters st their ballots for Tmp, pared to 78 percent for Clton.

“GAY CONSERVATIVE PUBLIC FIGURE”Ls than three months after postg his viral #WalkAway vio, Straka has qu his day job and now foc on his mpaign full-time, llg himself a “gay nservative public figure startg a movement to save the untry! They characterized the products Target offered, cludg T-shirts that said “Girls Gays Theys” and merchandise pictg a person drsed drag, as potentially vlatg state obsceny laws. If Playboy and Twter porn (generally) are not obscene, then neher are T-shirts prted wh the word “gay” or showg a person wearg clothg that do not nform to genr norms.

Practilly, many children are beg raised by LGBTQ parents and many themselv are gay, lbian, trans and non-bary. Elenis, which nsired whether a webse veloper uld be required to offer her publicly available weddg sign servic to gay upl is part of this trend.

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

” The so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” laws may be nsted, for example, to prohib a female teacher om tellg her stunts she is married to a woman. It’s temptg to thk that obsceny uld never be terpreted to clu a T-shirt that says “Girls Gays Theys. We n never fet that wasn’t that long ago that gay relatnships were crimalized.

Wa, nothg has been more misleadg than the accatn om leftist activists, the media and Democrats — even Print Bin himself — that gay rights uld be next. Cg gay-rights and ntraceptive-rights s, he wr that “abortn is ‘herently different om maral timacy, ’ ‘marriage, ’ or ‘procreatn.

In other words, the urt is gog out of s way to make clear that s reasong this se do not apply to gay marriage and other LGBT rights. Print Donald Tmp’s support for gay marriage was a game-changg moment — he was the first print to back gay rights upon takg office.