Tmp Pri: Gay Republins on why they're backg the print

Contents:

• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
• TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER
• WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

”He not only picked an openly gay man, Richard Grenell, to be the Amerin ambassador to Germany but also reportedly moons over Grenell’s good looks.

Far om protectg , he and his admistratn have strand , packg feral urts wh judg hostile to gay rights, barrg transgenr Amerins om ary service and givg a green light to Amerins who, cg relig beliefs, don’t want to give medil re or bake a ke.

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

When several Uned Stat embassi — cludg the one Berl, over which Grenell pris — requted permissn to fly the rabow flag this month honor of Gay Pri, the State Department said no. His treatment of gay people perfectly reveals the flabbs of his nvictns and his willgns to stand at odds wh a majory of Amerins if pleas the smaller number who adore him.

TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN

As gay and transgenr Amerins prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg on June 28, we hab a state of gnive dissonance, starg at a spl screen: sults om the Whe Hoe on one half of , posive rercement om elsewhere on the Krzaczynski/Agence France-Prse, via Getty ImagDemocrats’ embrace of Buttigieg, the first openly gay polician to land the top tier of printial ndidat, illtrat the trajectory beyond Tmp. In Colorado, five Republin lawmakers voted favor of a bill that banned anti-gay nversn therapy for mors, and six Republins, cludg some of the same on, voted to make easier for transgenr people to have the genr on their birth certifit changed. Acrdg to Freedom for All Amerins, an advocy group, more than two dozen Republin lawmakers 15 stat recently sponsored legislatn to protect gay or transgenr people om discrimatn.

Tmp has nomated and the Senate has nfirmed many jurists wh explic, unabashed hostily to gay and transgenr rights, cludg, jt days ago, Matthew Kacsmaryk, who received a lifetime appotment as a Uned Stat district judge for the Northern District of Texas.

This is a man who 2015 wrote that gay rights were part of a sexual revolutn that was “rooted the soil of elist postmorn philosophy” and “sought public affirmatn of the lie that the human person is an tonomo blob of Silly Putty unnstraed by nature or blogy, and that marriage, sexualy, genr inty and even the unborn child mt yield to the erotic sir of liberated adults. Tmp’s relatively benign ments before beg elected did nothg to prepare Mter for the ban on openly transgenr people the ary and for his admistratn’s edicts, efforts or clared tentns to elimate protectns for transgenr people the Affordable Care Act, allow health re workers to ce relig beliefs refg to treat gay or transgenr people, let ferally fund hog shelters ny accs to transgenr people, make easier for adoptn agenci to turn away same-sex upl and more.

TMP TELLS GAY SUPPORTER 'YOU DON'T LOOK GAY' AT MAR-A-LAGO FUNDRAISER

”But the ntributns Tmp is foced on are the vot and donatns om the so-lled relig right, given gratu for his opposn to abortn and his anti-gay actns. Sce the 2016 electn and even before, there has been a persistent meme, sometim the form of prott art or jok by edians, posg Print Donald Tmp and Rsian Print Vladimir Put as gay lovers.

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

As HuffPost’s Jam Michael Nichols noted cricizg a New York Tim animated ic earlier this week, the pictns often pend solely on homophobia to get a lgh.

Well-meang liberals eher aren’t able to discern that ’s not a gay thg, or they’re not terted aimg higher than the lazit, most offensive joke isn’t homosexual or bisexual ― at least, not based on any rmatn we have. But there have been allegatns of leerg at teenage girls at bety pageants, and, of urse, sexual harassment and asslt agast women, which he’s bragged about on tape and bshed off when asked about is, however, stnchly homosocial. One n be homosexual, for example, but heterosocial or bisocial ― havg timate, nonsexual relatnships only wh the oppose genr or people of both genrs, rpectively.