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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. 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.

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

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. “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. 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.

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

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. 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. While Tmp has policy differenc wh them, aga, like May and Merkel, his bizarre, on-aga, off-aga meanor toward both men suggts somethg else is gog on as seems most fortable wh men he perceiv as entirely homosocial (whether they actually are or not) and, th, misogynistic ― like Put, the Philipp’ dictatorial Print Rodrigo Duterte, Turkish Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ― even Kim Jong Un.

But by dog that, they’re makg the joke at the expense of an opprsed mory ― and tappg to overt or latent homophobia their mentary, whether a sober crique or a bg joke, really ought to exame Tmp’s secury about his masculy. O’Day claims that durg 2011-2012, when the two had an affair while Tmp was married, he was so fortable wh the LGBTQ+ muny that he met O’Day at a major New York Cy gay nightclub event. Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat.

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

The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. As one of the Republin Natnal Commtee's first openly gay members, and a longtime lear of Log Cab Republins, I've worked tirelsly alongsi many iends and lleagu to pull the party to the future. Through his philanthropic work over the years wh chari batg the AIDS crisis, his prev support of amendg the 1964 Civil Rights Act to clu a ban on discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, and his early support of gay upl havg the same rights and protectns as straight upl, Tmp was an ally long before he was print.

The Tmp plan is foced on muni most need and has received support om those who have been volved the fight agast HIV/ siar fashn, Tmp announced durg Pri Month 2019 that his admistratn was lnchg a global mpaign to end the crimalizatn of homosexualy. In ordatn wh the Uned Natns, the European Unn and other human rights anizatns, the mpaign’s goal is to prsure natns to endg homophobic laws, securg the safety and eedom of all LGBT dividuals throughout the world.

The acplishments should not suggt the print's work is beg elected print, Donald Tmp supported amendg the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clu sexual orientatn; his admistratn's ristance to protectg gay, lbian and transgenr employe om discrimatn the workplace the recent Supreme Court se was th disappotg. ]The month of June was filled wh big moments for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr that monthlong stretch, the Supreme Court renred a sweepg cisn providg workplace protectns for gay and transgenr people. Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr.

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

Grenell referred to his own appotment, as well as to the print’s acceptance of the Supreme Court’s lg of gay marriage as nstutnal and his efforts to ph untri that crimalize beg gay to end those practic. People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr.

Tmp was qutned about whether he would nsir rcdg his ban on transgenr people enterg the ary by a reporter for The Washgton Bla, a gay Tmp gtured to his ch, appearg to signal the reporter’s mask was mufflg him. 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. 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.

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

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.