Donald Tmp may support gay rights, but do the Republin Party? | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• DONALD TMP MAY SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, BUT DO THE REPUBLIN PARTY?
• TMP: ‘MY GREAT HONOR’ TO BE LLED THE ‘THE MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
• THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
• WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?

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

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. 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. “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.

DONALD TMP MAY SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, BUT DO THE REPUBLIN PARTY?

“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. Maloney, who is openly gay and married, said Tmp has opposed same-sex marriage and wants the Supreme Court to reverse s 2015 cisn that legalized same-sex marriage throughout the Uned Stat. Tmp was joed by Arizona’s 2022 GOP gubernatorial ndidate, Kari Lake, and an array of high profile “GayCons” (homosexual “nservativ”) cludg former Director of Natnal Intelligence Ric Grenell, a Tmp appotee, and equent Tucker Carlson gut mentator Chadwick Moore.

And stead of ngratulatg the 500 or so “GayCons” gathered Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom, Tmp and Lake should’ve asked the men and women to show that they tly are nservativ by affirmg the immutable fn of marriage – as njugal and plementary – and repudiatg RMA. Although Tmp reportedly did not mentn the new law his speech, he did proclaim, “We are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard.

The Log Cab Republins tried to stroy a grassroots Republin movement Texas bee was too socially nservative—and Tmp hosts them at his Wter Whe Hoe to celebrate “gay rights. “Tell me one more time that Tmp is not the most pro-gay Print Amerin history, ” tweeted Gala attene David Leatherwood. If there is gog to be a reawakeng of nservatism our natn, is large part gog to have to be led by those of who experience same-sex attractn rejectg homosexualy and llg for Obergefell to be overturned.

TMP: ‘MY GREAT HONOR’ TO BE LLED THE ‘THE MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

An unscientific survey last month by the gay social app Hor dited that 45 percent of s Amerin rponnts were votg to re-elect the print. But a Morng Consult poll om June found 19 percent of LGBTQ voters backed Tmp, while GLAAD's State of LGBTQ Voters report September reported jt 17 percent of LGBTQ registered voters were supportg the 's poll rults were siar to ex poll fdgs om 2016, which found that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr voters backed Hillary Clton over Tmp by 74 percent to 14 percent.

THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

'100 percent on board'While the precise numbers may be uncerta, Tmp's msage is appealg to some segment of the LGBTQ Kazmierczak, a gay real tate agent Virgia who said he's "100 percent on board" wh the print, blam Democrats for fixatg on inty polics.

"Kazmierczak lled Tmp a “stnch supporter of gay people and their rights, ” but he said he mak a distctn when to relig groups. On May 31, 2019, he regnized June as Pri Month for the first time a seri of tweets that doubled down on his mment to crimalizg homosexualy abroad.

It ma Grenell the first openly gay person named to a Cabet-level months later, Grenell was appoted the Tmp mpaign's senr adviser on LGBTQ outreach. "A lot of people jt don't like to be told they n only thk a certa way, and that's exactly what the left do, " said Bob Kabel, chair of the Log Cab Republins, a natnal gay nservative group. "You're acced of beg a racist or a homophobe if you don't agree wh everythg they say, and a lot of people are jt tired of that.

WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?

"Others have rporated their support for Team Tmp to their fluencer brands, like lbian YouTuber Arielle Srcella, gay polil mentator Dave Rub and bi glam rocker Ricky Rebel, who appeared at the Grammys red leather chaps wh the words "IMPEACH THIS" wrten across his backsi. #WalkAway founr Brandon Straka wh Jeane Pirro on Fox NewsIn 2018, Brandon Straka was an unknown gay hairstylist and aspirg actor. "Some voters are askg themselv, 'Do I vote as a gay person who is worried about my eedom and equaly, or do I vote as someone who's fearful for what the hell is gog on my untry?

Dan Inn, real tate veloper Jill Homan and var members of the Log Cab Smh, a Black gay Iraq War veteran, is on the Tmp Pri board.

"Right now, there are so many gays and lbians that are beg manipulated and ma to feel that they're unr nstant attack all the time by this admistratn, which is jt not the se, " he said. "We don't need lears to say, 'Hey, gay people, we're gog to do the thgs for you, ' bee a risg ti lifts all boats, " he said. "If Tmp is helpg stimulate the enomy, if he is helpg wd down forever wars, if he is dog thgs that benef Ameri, then gay and lbian Amerins are gog to benef, as well.