The absurd claim that Tmp is the ‘most pro-gay print Amerin history’ - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• DONALD TMP JR. HAD SEX WH HER GAY CLUB, CLAIMS POP STAR AUBREY O'DAY
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
• THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
• DONALD TMP’S MORE ACCEPTG VIEWS ON GAY ISSU SET HIM APART G.O.P.
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN

DONALD TMP JR. HAD SEX WH HER GAY CLUB, CLAIMS POP STAR AUBREY O'DAY

Sce the 1970s, gay Amerins have routely given the GOP as much as a quarter of their vote printial electns, even as relig nservativ me to domate the Republin Party and actively opposed their fundamental rights.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

Instead of a new directn for the GOP, Tmp’s approach may only differ rhetorilly om tradnal GOP the early 1970s, LGBTQ Republins California began to anize for the first time small groups, such as San Francis’s Gay Voters League and San Diego’s Teddy Roosevelt Republin Club, the hop of phg the party a libertarian — and sometim liberal — directn. The Briggs Amendment California, a 1978 ballot iative that would have ma illegal for any gay man or woman to teach the state’s public school California, newly formed Lln Clubs ordated the fight to keep bigotry out of their party and feat the amendment. C., gay Republins found grass-roots groups to oppose anti-gay efforts their the feat of the Briggs Iniative and a growg work of anizatns across the untry, gay Republins felt optimistic as the 1980s began.

“Individual rights has long been a hallmark of nservative philosophy, and wh a ltle nudge om , the new admistratn will quietly honor s mment to that prciple, ” De Armstrong, a gay Republin activist San Francis, argued shortly after the electn. Gay Republins also had hope bee some Republin policians, notably San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgeck, and Gee Dkmejian, who was elected ernor of California 1982, had actively urted gay voters to w Whe evangelils were fast beg the GOP base. As the HIV/AIDS crisis took hold, nservative relig activists targeted gays as the greatt threat to the natn’s well-beg, an pecially eful new enemy to replace the right’s long-standg fears of munism as the Soviet Unn began to cmble.

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

Even stat far om the Bible Belt, like California, Oregon and Alaska, Republin officials realized opposg gay rights was necsary to stay power as relig nservativ beme formidable votg blocs and took ntrol of their state GOP gay Republins — such as Bob Roehr, print of Washgton’s Capal Area Republins, Gary van Ooteghem, who led Hoton’s chapter of the Texas Log Cab Republins, and Tim Drake, who helped found the Chigo Area Republin Gay Organizatn — stubbornly refed to give up their party whout a fight. While the relig right sought to harns feral power to regulate and even crimalize Amerins’ private liv, gay Republins untered that their goal was a nstraed feral ernment that would stay out of both their wallets and their bedrooms.

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

“We gay Republins tend to be entreprenrs and homeowners, ” New Orleans attorney John Rawls said about his ras even as foot soldiers for the Republin Party, they enjoyed ltle wele and were almost never urted by the natnal party. Wh some 40 ln evangelil vot on the le pared to only a uple ln openly gay voters, the polil lcul looked obv to most wh the Supreme Court’s legalizatn of LGBTQ marriage and the sea change public opn on LGBTQ rights over the past , nservativ creasgly turned their anim toward immigrants and ’s rise both facilated and exploed this velopment.

DONALD TMP’S MORE ACCEPTG VIEWS ON GAY ISSU SET HIM APART G.O.P.

In toutg Tmp’s rerd, Log Cab Republins and other pro-Tmp LGBTQ people have embraced the very tokenist polics they long acced Democrats of offerg while enablg the forc of tolerance that still target LGBTQ doubt, many LGBTQ Amerins appreciate Tmp’s Republin Party isn’t stokg homophobia to the extent once did. 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.

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.

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

The world of gay men has s share of misogyny, sexual orientatn today is nsired an nate characteristic by most medil profsnals and social scientists, social preference is learned wh culture ― ’s lerally about how people are socialized.

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

And he has repeatedly dismissed, mistreated and attacked German Chancellor Angela Merkel ways that seem more personal than term “homosocial” has been around for long a time, but the fluential scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick popularized s e the ’80s, wrg on “male homosocial sire” and specifilly about how anxiety around masculy and around homosexualy fluence .

A 2007 Atralian study documented “the homosocial anizatn of men’s heterosexual relatns, ” notg that among some men: Male-male iendships take prry over male-female relatns, and platonic iendships wh women are dangeroly femizg. But whatever the se, Tmp’s homosocial affectn for Put seems to be unrequed ― which may make Tmp even more bee there’s not a sexual attractn don’t mean ’s not a ep, strong feelg that Tmp has for Put ― one that may ed give him palpatns and have him doodlg late at night.