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Contents:
- WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
- TMP SAYS HE'S 'FE' WH GAY MARRIAGE '60 MUT' INTERVIEW
- TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
- I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
- HERE'S HOW DONALD TMP WOULD EXPLA HIS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE TO HIS GRANDKIDS
WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
“We are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard,” Donald Tmp told a Log Cab Republins gala. * trump for gay marriage *
There were openly gay officials workg at the hight levels of the Tmp admistratn. And Congrs, the gay rights movement has found alli up and g Republin stars like Rep.
There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights. Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay. Hedge fund billnaire and Republin donor Pl Sger quietly donated to pro-gay rights and formed the Amerin Uny PAC and Amerin Uny Fund, which fights for LGBTQ and relig eedom.
TMP SAYS HE'S 'FE' WH GAY MARRIAGE '60 MUT' INTERVIEW
The Tmp admistratn is lnchg a global mpaign to end the crimalizatn of homosexualy dozens of natns where 's still illegal to be gay. * trump for gay marriage *
The real breakthrough, gay Republin operativ say, me wh the nomatn of Donald Tmp. Though evangelils flocked to his ndidacy, nservative gay rights activists also saw an opportuny. A smopolan md bs person, Tmp did not prrize LGBTQ issu durg his mpaign and, fact, ma overt appeals to gay voters, though not by pledgg support for laws to protect them.
“For the first time we got to walk to the race wh a ndidate we didn’t have to apologize for or expla away his reluctance to embrace the gay muny. Probably Reagan was the last ndidate where we were like ‘this ndidate has gay iends, ’” said Charl Moran, spokperson for Log Cab Republins, a LGBTQ GOP group.
TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
Gay rights activists and Republins acknowledge there is still much work to be done wh the GOP. Gay rights advot the party said Republins missed an opportuny to change the platform’s text 2020.
His admistratn mted to endg the HIV/AIDS epimic wh 10 years and phed to crimalize homosexualy abroad. “Donald Tmp’s embrace of people who are LGBT tly did help make OK to be an out, gay Republin, ” said former Whe Hoe puty prs secretary Judd Deere.
I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
“As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships. Thursday night’s Log Cab Republins’ “Spir of Lln” gala the ma ballroom of Donald Tmp’s Mar-a-Lago beachont club was a joyo celebratn of gay rights.
Thursday night’s Log Cab Republins’ “Spir of Lln” gala the ma ballroom of Donald Tmp’s Mar-a-Lago beachont club was a joyo celebratn of gay rights and — a se of ironic timg — the historic same-sex marriage law signed by Print Joe Bin days earlier. He received a standg ovatn after liverg an enthiastic affirmatn of gay rights not often heard the GOP. “We are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard, ” the former print and 2024 ndidate said.
They creded him for his iativ to bat the crimalizatn of homosexualy, his work phg for public heath iativ to bat the HIV epimic, and for appotg the first openly gay Cabet member, Grenell, as director of natnal telligence. He’s been cricized for drivg a wedge between gay and transgenr muni, and for promotg extreme relig liberty polici and executive orrs they say allowed for discrimatn agast LGBTQ people that phed the movement backwards.
HERE'S HOW DONALD TMP WOULD EXPLA HIS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE TO HIS GRANDKIDS
Charl Moran, print of the Log Cab Republins, challenged other 2024 hopefuls to also say they are willg to fight for gay rights. Tmp, for one, med about his wife Melania Tmp jog Grenell, who is gay, for a Log Cab Republins trip to Beverly Hills, Calif., last week. 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. 19Grennell, who is openly gay, listed the ways that Print Tmp has supported the LGBTQ muny Cred: Log Cab GOP. Grennell, who is gay, also noted that his sexual orientatn "didn't even faze" the print.