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HRC, which endorsed Clinton in January, says the GOP’s presumptive nominee is speaking from both sides of his mouth. “We’ve moved far beyond the point where attending a gay wedding is a sign of progress.” “The truth is that Trump’s own record isn’t all that different from the GOP’s platform,” Jay Brown, communications director for the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBT advocacy group, told TheWrap. A 2014 Gallup poll showed more than six in 10 LGBT Americans identify as Democrats or are Democratic-leaning independents, while 21 percent identified with or leaned towards the Republican Party.Īlso Read: George Takei Blasts Donald Trump on Same-Sex Marriage: 3 Wives Isn't Traditionalīut for more liberal LGBT voters, the idea of a President Trump is the stuff of nightmares. While gay Americans tend to vote Democrat, there are plenty who lean right. In 2012, Trump eliminated a Miss Universe rule requiring contestants be “naturally born female” after a Canadian competitor was told she would be disqualified because she was born male. And last year Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” he didn’t think private companies should be able to fire people for being gay. He’s appeared at the wedding of gay friends and has spoken out against North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law, inviting Caitlyn Jenner to use the toilet of her choice at Trump Tower (an invitation Jenner accepted wholeheartedly). Log Cabin Republicans say there’s a lot about Trump they like.
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“He’s dancing a fine line trying to bring together different sides of the party,” said Charles Moran, an openly gay political strategist and Trump California delegate. and Donald Trumpīut Trump’s gay supporters insists the GOP’s platform is nothing more than a formality that will have little bearing on party policies. “I’m incensed.”Īlso Read: 'Grandma' Star Lily Tomlin on Feminism, Gay Rights, Stardom at 75. “To say that I’m disappointed is an understatement,” Angelo said. Last month, the presumptive GOP nominee retweeted a picture of himself and Robert Jeffers, a known anti-gay Dallas pastor.Īnd on Tuesday the Republican National Committee moved to adopt a staunchly conservative platform Angelo said was more discriminatory than any Republican platform in recent memory. Bush’s use of same-sex marriage as a wedge issue.Īngelo said the group is worried about Trump’s association with people known for anti-gay views, including Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, Pat Robertson, chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network and Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University. The Log Cabin Republicans have endorsed the Republican candidate every year since, except in 2004, when it objected to George W. Bush after he failed to denounce anti-gay sentiment at the GOP convention. It came to prominence in 1992, the year it declined to endorse incumbent President George H. The group, which Angelo says has 30,000 members nationwide, started in the late 1970s in response to a failed California initiative that would have banned gays and lesbians from working in the state’s public schools. “While Donald Trump is the most pro-gay nominee this party has ever had, there are some genuine concerns that I have and concerns that our national board of directors have,” Angelo told TheWrap.Īlso Read: Donald Trump Says 'Ask the Gays,' Gays Make Him Immediately Regret It on Twitter Gregory Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, noted Trump’s support of the gay community following the Orlando shooting last month, and Trump’s claim that he’s better on gay issues than his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. But he has serious problems with the company Trump keeps. The president of the conservative LGBT group Log Cabin Republicans says Donald Trump is “the most pro-gay nominee this party has ever had” - but the group is holding off on an endorsement.