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• THE MILO YIANNOPOULOS TOUR ROLLS CONSERVATIVE SPEAKER'S EVENT DELAYED AT UCLA AFTER PROTTERS BLOCK ENTRANCE
• PETER THIEL BE FIRST OPENLY GAY R.N.C. SPEAKER 16 YEARSTHE NTROVERSIAL BILLNAIRE VENTURE PALIST SAID HE IS “PROUD TO BE GAY.”BY MAYA KOSOFFJULY 21, 2016BY ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEON THURSDAY EVENG, BILLNAIRE PAYPAL -FOUNR PETER THIEL LIVERED A SPEECH SUPPORT OF TMP AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN CLEVELAND. TO THE SHOCK OF THE REPUBLIN CROWD, HE AFFIRMED THAT HE WAS “PROUD TO BE GAY.” THE ONLY PREV TIME AN OPENLY GAY SPEAKER SPOKE AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN WAS THE YEAR 2000, AND THIEL IS THE FIRST GAY R.N.C. SPEAKER TO DISCS HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN.“WHEN I WAS A KID, THE GREAT BATE WAS ABOUT HOW TO FEAT THE SOVIET UNN. AND WE WON. NOW WE ARE TOLD THAT THE GREAT BATE IS ABOUT WHO GETS TO E WHICH BATHROOM,” HE SAID. “THIS IS A DISTRACTN OM OUR REAL PROBLEMS. WHO R? OF URSE, EVERY AMERIN HAS A UNIQUE INTY. I AM PROUD TO BE GAY. I AM PROUD TO BE A REPUBLIN.” HIS CLARATN WAS MET WH CHEERS OF “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”PREVLY THIEL HAS DONATED TO NSERVATIVE-LIBERTARIAN PRO-L.G.B.T. ANIZATNS. HE BEME THE FIRST SPEAKER THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY TO EMBRACE L.G.B.T. ISSU SO PUBLICLY AT THE R.N.C. IN ADDN, THIEL TALKED ABOUT HIS ANTI-WAR STANCE, WHICH HE SAYS ALIGNS HIM WH TMP. “INSTEAD OF GOG TO MARS, WE HAVE VAD THE MIDDLE EAST,” HE SAID. HE FISHED HIS SPEECH WH A STANDG OVATN OM THE DIENCE. THOUGH THIEL’S TRAILBLAZG PRENCE AND MENTS BO WELL FOR THE CHANCE OF A MORE CLIVE REPUBLIN PARTY, TMP’S CHOICE OF NNG MATE DON’T EXACTLY SUPPORT THE SAME PICTURE OF THE FUTURE. INDIANA ERNOR MIKE PENCE HAS MA A REER PROTTG L.G.B.T. RIGHTS, AND EVEN ARGUED THAT FERAL FUNDS SHOULD GO TOWARD SO-LLED “GAY NVERSN THERAPY.”THIEL’S SUPPORT FOR TMP MAK PLETE SENSE; AN AVOWED LIBERTARIAN, THIEL HAS PREVLY EXPRSED HIS SPAIR THAT PALISM AND MOCRACY N’T REALLY EXIST. BOTH THIEL AND TMP ARE WEALTHY, WHE PALISTS WH AN THORARIAN BEND. BOTH MEN FD THEMSELV SOLVG SUATNS WH LIGATN; TMP HAS THREATENED TO SUE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, CLUDG HIS GHOSTWRER, WHILE THIEL HAS CID TO WAGE A PROXY WAR ON GAWKER BY FUNDG FORMER PROFSNAL WRTLER HULK HOGAN’S LAWSU AGAST THE MEDIA PANY.THIEL AND TMP ALSO SHARE A DISTASTE FOR “POLIL RRECTNS” AND MULTICULTURALISM. THROWG HIS SUPPORT BEHD TMP IS ALSO A MEANS FOR THIEL TO DISMANTLE THE REGULATORY AMEWORK THAT PREVENTS HIM OM THE KDS OF TECHNOLOGIL “DISPTIVE” CHANGE HE WISH TO ENACT.LIKE TMP, THIEL ALSO WH A HEALTHY SET OF NTRADICTNS. THE VENTURE-PALIST HAS EXTEND HIS FANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE COMMTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS, A NONPROF FOUNDATN THAT FENDS “THE RIGHT OF JOURNALISTS TO REPORT THE NEWS WHOUT FEAR OF REPRISAL.” AND WHILE HE’S A BIG BELIEVER PRIVACY OM THE ERNMENT, HE IS ALSO A -FOUNR OF PALANTIR, A MULTI-BILLN-DOLLAR START-UP THAT LLECTS DATA ABOUT S CLIENTS’ ERS AND MOIZ THEIR PERSONAL RMATN. THE C.I.A.’S VENTURE-PAL ARM HAS VTED PALANTIR.THE REAL FASHN WNERS OF THE R.N.C.1 / 13CHEVRONCHEVRONBY TASOS KATOPODIS/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAG.IVANKA TMP'S EARRGSTHE SIMPLE OBLONG ACCSORI AMG IVANKA’S FACE ARE WORKG OVERTIME. SOMEHOW, THEY’RE HIGHLIGHTG THE ALMOND SHAPE OF HER EY AND BRGG OUT THEIR CHTNUT LOR. HER HAIR SEEMS EVEN MORE GROOMED NEXT TO THE EARRGS, HER SK EVEN MORE GLOWG. SOMEONE GIVE THE EARRGS A RAISE.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHDONALD TMP’S LAWYER CAN’T STOP GOG ON TV AND MAKG DONALD TMP LOOK RIDICULOLY GUILTY OF THE CRIM HE’S BEEN ACCED OFBY BS LEV“DOPEY AND CONSTUTNALLY DUB”: LEGAL EXPERTS BLAST JUDGE AILEEN CANNON’S LATT PRO-TMP RULGSBY BS LEVMAYA KOSOFF
• THE LAST GAY CONSERVATIVE
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• FOR GAY CONSERVATIV, THE TMP ERA IS THE BT AND WORST OF TIM
• THE ANTI-INTY POLICS OF GAY NSERVATIV
• PETER THIEL MAK HISTORY AT RNC: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'
• GAY REPUBLINS EXPLA WHY THEY ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTG DONALD TMP
• YOUNG GAY CONSERVATIV SAY THEIR TIME HAS COME
• CAN YOU BE A NSERVATIVE GAY?

THE MILO YIANNOPOULOS TOUR ROLLS CONSERVATIVE SPEAKER'S EVENT DELAYED AT UCLA AFTER PROTTERS BLOCK ENTRANCE

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. 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. The College Fix – A hor of stunt protters crowd ont of UCLA’s Broad Art Center on Tuday to prevent hundreds of Milo Yiannopoulos fans om enterg the venue and hearg the nservative-gay firebrand speak.

Serly do anythg sum up better than 1) accg a gay guy of spreadg hate speech, 2) blockg off the entrance and not even allowg a speech to take place bee ’s nservative themed, and 3) this girl? 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.

PETER THIEL BE FIRST OPENLY GAY R.N.C. SPEAKER 16 YEARSTHE NTROVERSIAL BILLNAIRE VENTURE PALIST SAID HE IS “PROUD TO BE GAY.”BY MAYA KOSOFFJULY 21, 2016BY ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEON THURSDAY EVENG, BILLNAIRE PAYPAL -FOUNR PETER THIEL LIVERED A SPEECH SUPPORT OF TMP AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN CLEVELAND. TO THE SHOCK OF THE REPUBLIN CROWD, HE AFFIRMED THAT HE WAS “PROUD TO BE GAY.” THE ONLY PREV TIME AN OPENLY GAY SPEAKER SPOKE AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN WAS THE YEAR 2000, AND THIEL IS THE FIRST GAY R.N.C. SPEAKER TO DISCS HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN.“WHEN I WAS A KID, THE GREAT BATE WAS ABOUT HOW TO FEAT THE SOVIET UNN. AND WE WON. NOW WE ARE TOLD THAT THE GREAT BATE IS ABOUT WHO GETS TO E WHICH BATHROOM,” HE SAID. “THIS IS A DISTRACTN OM OUR REAL PROBLEMS. WHO R? OF URSE, EVERY AMERIN HAS A UNIQUE INTY. I AM PROUD TO BE GAY. I AM PROUD TO BE A REPUBLIN.” HIS CLARATN WAS MET WH CHEERS OF “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”PREVLY THIEL HAS DONATED TO NSERVATIVE-LIBERTARIAN PRO-L.G.B.T. ANIZATNS. HE BEME THE FIRST SPEAKER THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY TO EMBRACE L.G.B.T. ISSU SO PUBLICLY AT THE R.N.C. IN ADDN, THIEL TALKED ABOUT HIS ANTI-WAR STANCE, WHICH HE SAYS ALIGNS HIM WH TMP. “INSTEAD OF GOG TO MARS, WE HAVE VAD THE MIDDLE EAST,” HE SAID. HE FISHED HIS SPEECH WH A STANDG OVATN OM THE DIENCE. THOUGH THIEL’S TRAILBLAZG PRENCE AND MENTS BO WELL FOR THE CHANCE OF A MORE CLIVE REPUBLIN PARTY, TMP’S CHOICE OF NNG MATE DON’T EXACTLY SUPPORT THE SAME PICTURE OF THE FUTURE. INDIANA ERNOR MIKE PENCE HAS MA A REER PROTTG L.G.B.T. RIGHTS, AND EVEN ARGUED THAT FERAL FUNDS SHOULD GO TOWARD SO-LLED “GAY NVERSN THERAPY.”THIEL’S SUPPORT FOR TMP MAK PLETE SENSE; AN AVOWED LIBERTARIAN, THIEL HAS PREVLY EXPRSED HIS SPAIR THAT PALISM AND MOCRACY N’T REALLY EXIST. BOTH THIEL AND TMP ARE WEALTHY, WHE PALISTS WH AN THORARIAN BEND. BOTH MEN FD THEMSELV SOLVG SUATNS WH LIGATN; TMP HAS THREATENED TO SUE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, CLUDG HIS GHOSTWRER, WHILE THIEL HAS CID TO WAGE A PROXY WAR ON GAWKER BY FUNDG FORMER PROFSNAL WRTLER HULK HOGAN’S LAWSU AGAST THE MEDIA PANY.THIEL AND TMP ALSO SHARE A DISTASTE FOR “POLIL RRECTNS” AND MULTICULTURALISM. THROWG HIS SUPPORT BEHD TMP IS ALSO A MEANS FOR THIEL TO DISMANTLE THE REGULATORY AMEWORK THAT PREVENTS HIM OM THE KDS OF TECHNOLOGIL “DISPTIVE” CHANGE HE WISH TO ENACT.LIKE TMP, THIEL ALSO WH A HEALTHY SET OF NTRADICTNS. THE VENTURE-PALIST HAS EXTEND HIS FANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE COMMTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS, A NONPROF FOUNDATN THAT FENDS “THE RIGHT OF JOURNALISTS TO REPORT THE NEWS WHOUT FEAR OF REPRISAL.” AND WHILE HE’S A BIG BELIEVER PRIVACY OM THE ERNMENT, HE IS ALSO A -FOUNR OF PALANTIR, A MULTI-BILLN-DOLLAR START-UP THAT LLECTS DATA ABOUT S CLIENTS’ ERS AND MOIZ THEIR PERSONAL RMATN. THE C.I.A.’S VENTURE-PAL ARM HAS VTED PALANTIR.THE REAL FASHN WNERS OF THE R.N.C.1 / 13CHEVRONCHEVRONBY TASOS KATOPODIS/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAG.IVANKA TMP'S EARRGSTHE SIMPLE OBLONG ACCSORI AMG IVANKA’S FACE ARE WORKG OVERTIME. SOMEHOW, THEY’RE HIGHLIGHTG THE ALMOND SHAPE OF HER EY AND BRGG OUT THEIR CHTNUT LOR. HER HAIR SEEMS EVEN MORE GROOMED NEXT TO THE EARRGS, HER SK EVEN MORE GLOWG. SOMEONE GIVE THE EARRGS A RAISE.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHDONALD TMP’S LAWYER CAN’T STOP GOG ON TV AND MAKG DONALD TMP LOOK RIDICULOLY GUILTY OF THE CRIM HE’S BEEN ACCED OFBY BS LEV“DOPEY AND CONSTUTNALLY DUB”: LEGAL EXPERTS BLAST JUDGE AILEEN CANNON’S LATT PRO-TMP RULGSBY BS LEVMAYA KOSOFF

” 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. For s, the William Way LGBT Communy Center has sat at the heart of Philalphia’s gayborhood, offerg art shows, unselg servic, vacce clics and a slew of other health and hog assistance to rints as the center’s agg headquarters started to show s wear, s lears turned to Washgton for some help.

THE LAST GAY CONSERVATIVE

8 ln feral aid for renovatns — until Hoe Republins mounted an extraordary blocka this week, nyg a requt to fund the anizatn and other lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr-foced groups two last year’s electns, Republin lawmakers creasgly have seized on the power of the feral purse, uplg their csa for stery wh a fierce ph to advance a nservative social agenda.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

In state legislatur across the untry, party lawmakers recently have moved to adopt a rerd number of rtrictns that lim gay and transgenr rights, while the GOP’s printial ndidat have attacked transgenr athlet and rebed schools that teach about genr inty. Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny.

FOR GAY CONSERVATIV, THE TMP ERA IS THE BT AND WORST OF TIM

Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May. The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.

THE ANTI-INTY POLICS OF GAY NSERVATIV

Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says.

PETER THIEL MAK HISTORY AT RNC: 'I'M PROUD TO BE GAY'

Gay journalist Chadwick Moore – who recently me out as a nservative – spoke at Portland State Universy a speech that drew protts and prompted Moore to boldly engage monstrators who heckled him. Moore entered the natnal spotlight after g out as a nservative an op-ed the New York Post Febary that tailed the tense backlash and hatred he received om his once beloved and supportive gay muny for wrg a feature on Milo Yiannopoulos for Out magaze. “Here I am, a public gay person who was workg for the two largt gay magaz the world as their top vtigative journalist, and they n’t put that up there bee they don’t like my polics, ” Moore said.

A 23-year-old stunt at Suffolk Universy Boston who is gay and “leans nservative, ” Holn planned to take p not and wre a gonzo-style journalistic piece about a polil gatherg known as much for s r parti as s provotive wasn’t the only young L.

Next to Nash was Lucian Wtrich, the 30-year-old former Whe Hoe rrponnt for The Gateway Pund, a nspiracy-peddlg far-right webse found by another gay man, Jim Hoft, to “expose the wickedns of the left. Still, he wanted Holn’s phone uldn’t relate to someone wh shame about his sexual orientatn, nor to those he lled the “loud gay Tmp fanboys, ” referrg to people like Wtrich and the former Brebart senr edor Milo Yiannopoulos, who are both tegorized by the Anti-Defamatn League as “alt le, ” a signatn given to those the anizatn says “are step wh the alt-right their hatred of femists and immigrants, among others. Angelo, a 40-year-old longtime munitns specialist who until recently was the print of the Log Cab Republins, told me that he had never seen so many openly gay nservativ at CPAC.

GAY REPUBLINS EXPLA WHY THEY ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTG DONALD TMP

Guy Benson, 33, a nservative wrer and Fox News on-air ntributor who me out publicly 2015, told me that the nservative gay movement has bee diverse enough the past few years “to have multiple nstuenci wh vastly different prri and polil styl. ” Jimmy Dore, -host of the Young Turks’ “The Aggrsive Progrsiv” web seri, joked durg a 2007 standup route, “They’re gay Republins — they’re people who are gay and, on purpose, are Republins.

Muny — have lighted the sex sndals of closeted gay Republin lawmakers across the untry, who often voted agast gay rights even as they soliced gay sex rtrooms, hired male rts or hooked up wh men their ngrsnal offic. ” In a vio on the home page of PragerU, a nservative vio se, Guy Benson explaed his polil prri: “I’m a Christian, a patrtic Amerin and a ee-market, shrk-the-ernment nservative who also happens to be gay.

“You weren’t gog to have the cultural shift on gay marriage whout Republins talkg to Republins about gay digny and why gay marriage is important, ” Longwell a new documentary about the Log Cab Republins produced by the anizatn, longtime members also champn their 2004 lawsu to overturn “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” the Clton admistratn policy on gay, bisexual and lbian service members, which the anizatn opposed bee required service members to nceal their sexual orientatn.

YOUNG GAY CONSERVATIV SAY THEIR TIME HAS COME

Kev Ssums, a magaze wrer and thor who prolifilly rails agast Tmp and Republins on his popular Facebook page, has lled gay Tmp supporters “Vichy gays” for what he scrib as their “llaboratn wh a fascist and eply homophobic regime. Pri Month, Tmp has taken a plethora of anti-gay actns “to pacify the tolerant base of his party, ” says Jimmy LaSalvia, a longtime gay nservative activist who left the G. Rights: The Jtice Department argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s ban on sex discrimatn don’t protect Amerin workers on the basis of sexual orientatn, and Tmp nomated a longtime gay rights foe, Sam Brownback, as his ambassador at large for ternatnal relig eedom, a State Department posn.

CAN YOU BE A NSERVATIVE GAY?

Andrew Sullivan, arguably the most fluential (and ntroversial) nservative gay voice of the last three s, told me he knows many polilly morate gay nservativ who have cid to “keep their heads down” durg the Tmp era.

”Not long before CPAC last year, I asked Doug Hattaway, a gay Democratic strategist who was a senr adviser to Hillary Clton’s 2008 printial mpaign, if he unted any gay nservativ as good iends. ” Hattaway ved Newb to jo that night for a drk at a bar Washgton’s Logan Circle same day, I spoke by phone wh a longtime gay nservative who served Tmp’s printial mpaign. I heard somethg siar om Tim Miller, a gay former munitns staff member for Jeb Bh, who told me he was surprised by how quickly a muny of mostly young, openly gay nservative men has formed recent years Washgton.

”Moore — who has repeatedly fend the Proud Boys, a far-right men’s group of self-intified “Wtern chvists” that was banned on Facebook and Instagram after 10 members were arrted on charg of rt and attempted asslt New York October — sists that the real threat to gay people om Islam.