Joe Bin’s awkward ‘gay waer’ remark irks crowd at LGBT event

Contents:

• JOE BIN’S AWKWARD ‘GAY WAER’ REMARK IRKS CROWD AT LGBT EVENT
• BIN’S ‘GAY WAER’ MENT ON LGBTQ RIGHTS FALLS FLAT SEATTLE
• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
• WHEN WILL JOE BIN STOP USG THE “GAY WAER” AS A STAND- FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS?

JOE BIN’S AWKWARD ‘GAY WAER’ REMARK IRKS CROWD AT LGBT EVENT

He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. Joe Bin ma an awkward reference to a “gay waer” while speakg at an event hosted by an LGBT rights advote Seattle, a report said Sunday. The printial hopeful was referencg public sentiment on gay rights over the urse of his reer on Saturday when he ma the bonehead ment, acrdg to CNN.

Bin med that five years ago if someone a bs meetg Seattle “ma fun of a gay waer” people would have let go. Bin ntued, sayg that if a person ma a homophobic joke 2019, “that person would not be ved back. The event was hosted by PR executive Roger Nyh, a lear the Seattle gay rights muny.

BIN’S ‘GAY WAER’ MENT ON LGBTQ RIGHTS FALLS FLAT SEATTLE

“Thk of the credible, physil, moral urage took to stand up and fight back, ” Bin said about the Stonewall rts, which took place 50 years ago this weekend and helped spark the gay rights movement.

People gathered at a 2020 printial fundraiser for Joe Bin Saturday phed back agast the former vice print’s claim that jt a few years ago people Washgton state would have let a homophobic ment sli, sayg “Not Seattle! The printial hopeful suggted public sentiment toward gay rights issu has e far a short perd of time, sayg five years ago if someone at a bs meetg Seattle “ma fun of a gay waer” people would jt let go, acrdg to a pool report of the event. The dience volly rpond to the remark and some the crowd said homophobic ments would not have gone unchallenged even before five years ago, acrdg to the report.

The event was hosted by public relatns executive Roger Nyh, who is known as a lear the Seattle gay rights muny. Bin said if someone ma homophobic ments today, “that person would not be ved back, ” and said was wrong that a gay uple uld get married one day and get fired the next 22 stat bee they lacked legal protectns om job discrimatn. A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat who wanted to do the “right thg.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

This past Saturday, ont of a roomful of donors at a Seattle fundraiser, former vice print turned current Democratic printial ndidate Joe Bin claimed that jt five years ago, if someone at a bs meetg “ma fun of a gay waer, ” people would have let go, acrdg to a pool report of the event.

First of all, as some have poted out, Seattle had a gay mayor 2014, and currently has a lbian mayor office. ) Sendly, acrdg to Poli’s Dan Diamond, this isn’t the first time Bin has trotted out the “gay waer” b.

In 2014 — which, 2019, he jt emed the cut-off year for homophobic remarks pole pany — Bin dated the hypothetil scene as takg place 1999. ” Bee, as Bin put , this was “appropriate behavr” – the nsens would have been that ’s OK to make fun of someone who is gay. Bin has told versns of the “gay waer” anecdote, wh varyg receptn, recent years.

WHEN WILL JOE BIN STOP USG THE “GAY WAER” AS A STAND- FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS?

At the fundraiser, as before, Bin reportedly remarked that tim have changed — sayg that if someone ma homophobic ments today, “that person would not be ved back” — ntug his pattern of amazement at the progrs we’ve ma the last five years, jt like he did … five years ago? Still, that the harassment of a “gay waer” has emerged as Bin’s persistent rhetoril ctch when to LGBTQ rights is perhaps not too surprisg: So much of mpaign optics is about “electabily” vis-à-vis relatabily — nnectg to the everyman, the heart of “real Ameri. By makg a rtrant the se of an argument about who is culturally “wele” a public space, Bin aims broadly for the ubiquo and the universal, albe a somewhat dated way that brgs to md the “that’s so gay” ads of the ghts.

Time is a flat servg tray, and policians repeat the same quips and ai-approved stori all the time, but if Bin wants to actively avoid beg seen as out of touch and tone af, perhaps he should fd a new way to talk about LGBTQ rights than this strange, outdated, “gay waer” b? Bin’s ‘gay waer’ ment on LGBTQ rights falls flat Seattle [CNN]. Bin Suggts Mockg a ‘Gay Waer’ Was Seen as OK Five Years Ago [The Daily Beast].

Joe Bin Really Lov His Dated ‘Gay Waer’ Anecdote, Even If No One Else Do [Splter].