Former President Donald Trump advised a supporter within the group Gays for Trump at an occasion at Mar-a-Lago: “You don’t look homosexual” — triggering an eruption of laughter amongst his followers.
“We did nice with the homosexual inhabitants, as you realize,” Trump boasted on the Wednesday fundraiser for Republican John Gibbs, who’s operating for the Home in Michigan.
In actual fact, 73% of the LGBTQ neighborhood supported Democrat Joe Biden and never Trump, in accordance with a ballot conduced by the nonpartisan Nationwide Opinion Analysis Middle on the College of Chicago. Whereas in workplace, Trump was accountable for a litany of anti-gay and anti-transgender actions, and he decimating a number of anti-discrimination protections. He banned transgender individuals from the navy.
As for Trump’s implication that gays have a single “look,” Gays for Trump founder Peter Boykin advised Newsweek on Thursday that the previous president was most likely referring to gays on the left. Members of Boykin’s group “most likely wouldn’t look homosexual as a result of it’s a stereotype that matches extra with the typical ‘look’ of leftist LGBT,” Boykin insisted. He didn’t element what that could be.
He added: “Not saying a few of us would possibly look fabulous and ‘homosexual.’ In any other case it was a suit-and-tie occasion, so except considered one of us was sporting a joker go well with, meh,” Boykin wrote.
He described Gays for Trump as “varied sorts” of gays who “lean proper.”
Simply final week, right-wing extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a featured speaker at Trump’s rally in Georgia, attacked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, in a homophobic rant.
“You understand what?” a livid Greene requested the gang. ”Pete Buttigieg can take his electrical autos and his bicycle, and he and his husband can keep out of our ladies’ bogs.”
Twitter critics had some ideas about Trump’s remark. Some famous how ironic it was that Trump was discussing gays when his political ally, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, simply signed the “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice into regulation, making it unlawful to debate sexual orientation or gender id in faculties from kindergarten by means of third grade.
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