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No 'victim mentality' or rainbow flags: Gay Republicans rally for Trump
“It’s not just about gays and lesbians. It’s about the communities that care about equality,” Moran said. “And, again, suburban women, youth voters — these are core constituencies of the 2024 election cycle. We don’t just have to pander and run to gays.”
Still, Moran and other event organizers said they assume Trump could secure up to 50% of lgbtq+ voters in the upcoming election, without providing figures explaining their reasoning. Millions of American adults recognize as lesbian or lgbtq+, according to Gallup.
In a Human Rights Campaign poll conducted in August, 74% of LGBTQ voters declare they plan to or are leaning toward voting for Vice President Kamala Harris, 7.5% for Trump and the remainder for third party write-ins.
Brandon Wolf, a spokesperson for the advocacy group, which has endorsed and is fundraising for Harris, denounced the Trump UNITY events and accused the former president of leading “the most anti-LGBTQ+ administration in history.”
“Some people really like proximity to power, and Donald Trump is someone who peddles power in exchange for things constantly,” Wolf said. “It’s unfortuna
Gay conservatives helped to shape the Republican party. Now, Trump is vowing to roll back LGBTQ rights
In 2011, when presidential dreams were a glint in Donald Trump's eye, a new political group invited the businessman to speak to a conservative convention.
He wasn't being hosted by a Christian organisation or a far-right faction.
Trump's first legitimate entrance into America's political arena was at the behest of a lgbtq+ Republican group.
And according to historian and political commentator Neil J Young, this fact has been almost entirely forgotten — especially now, as Trump leans into a deeply conservative, Christian base.
The invitees behind Trump's address were Christopher R Barron and Jimmy LaSalvia, founders of GOProud.
"[GOProud] was a small, homosexual Republican organisation that had, a year or so before, broken away from Log Cabin Republicans … [which is] the nation's oldest and largest male lover Republican organisation," Dr Childish tells ABC RN's The Religion and Ethics Report.
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Gay Republicans Explain Why They Are Proudly Supporting Donald Trump
— -- Charles Moran, a gay Trump delegate from California, was standing just feet from the stage at the Republican National Convention when he heard billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel grant his now-famous speech.
“Every American has a unique individuality. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican,” Thiel told a cheering crowd at the RNC in Cleveland this past July.
Thiel made history that night as the first openly gay RNC speaker, and this week he doubled down on his Donald Trump endorsement, donating $1.25 million to his campaign.
Peter Thiel: 'I'm Proud to Be Gay, I'm Proud to Be a Republican'Silicon Valley businessman says he doesn't believe in all of the party's platforms, but he does believe that Donald Trump is the only honest candidate.
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Thiel sits on the board of Facebook, and so when many in the online community lashed out at him for supporting Trump, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stepped in to defend him, writing in a post, “There are many reasons a person might support Trump that complete not involve racism, sexism, xenophobia or accepting s
Sarah Longwell ’02 was elected in January to be the first female chairman of Log Cabin Republicans, the country’s most prominent organization for LGBT conservatives. Longwell, who was a political science major at Kenyon, lives in Washington, D.C., with her wife and son, and is a senior vice president and partner at the communications firm Berman and Company.
Q: How did you get involved with Log Cabin Republicans?
A: It was complete happenstance. I had a friend who was the political reporter for The Advocate here in D.C., and when [former Republican National Committee chairman] Ken Mehlman came out of the closet in 2010, she wanted to do a story profiling other LGBT Republicans. So, she profiled me and all of a sudden my phone started ringing with calls from people and organizations wanting to get me involved. I was surprised by the reaction, but there simply aren’t many lesbian Republicans and these groups were eager to add some diversity. It was recent to me back then to talk about lgbtq+ issues; I worked every day in politics and public policy but I had never been committed in anything specifically LGBT. At the time, the marriage equality conversation w
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