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The GOP identity politics double standard towards Gays For Trump

Author
Peter Boykin
Published
Mon 10 Feb 2020
Episode Link
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-gop-identity-politics-double-standard-towards-gays-for-trump--22629339

The GOP identity politics double standard towards Gays For Trump

I hate this quote when I ask for support of "gays for trump"

"I don’t see conservatives suddenly embracing identity politics."

https://youtu.be/lgROekPE_Ws

Let me remind you. It doesn't suddenly become "identity politics" when we say we are gay conservatives!

Just because some of us can hide out or not announce our sexuality does not mean we are the only "identity" in town.

I am sick of this misconception!!

Republicans take advantage of Identity Politics every day just like any other political group.

It's called Demographics.

Which the gay community should really be any groups dream to grab... Because hello!! We are every demographic rolled into one!! Literally holding a rainbow flag making it easy to find us!

But let me clarify this.

Women
Men
College
Young
Blacks
Mexican
Latino
Jews
Christians
And more

All are identity groups and demographics that the right have no issue having clubs (men's Republican club, ladies Republican club, etc)

Each one of these is a "For Trump" group.

All get wide support!

Trump regularly has #Blexit Candace Owens and Blacks For Trump over to the Whitehouse and are wooooooed all the time to #GoRight

Let me remind you how we all can be the same.. women worked hard for equality and equal rights and the right to vote. Blacks also did the same thing. But....

It's easily forgotten if you're not gay because you live in a "straight world" that as many of you say we "cram our gay lifestyle in your face" quite actually everyday we live in a "straight" world.

People assume we are straight and ask us men about wives, girlfriends, children... (Women get it easier because men look the other way at lesbians) we then have to mumble lies, divert the question, or flat out tell the truth.. but when we do we are "cramming our lifestyle down your throat"

So how are we like Women and Blacks who are both "identities"? We are because we in the gay community have had to fight for our equal rights as well!!

Yes we are an Identity.. one thats been oppressed and still is condemned, threatened, attacked, ridiculed, told we are perverts, we are unnatural, we are all sinners, we are mentally ill, we are called names and it's all fair game still.

As stated before, it's perfectly acceptable to put our bigotted remarks against gays.. (example recently against Mayor Pete that I don't support politically) but if one makes a comment about someone being black or a woman etc in a bad way it's sexist, or racist..

But.. let me try to call out homophobic remarks...

I'm told get back in the closet you're going to burn in hell along with a full display of religious zealots ready to judge and condem me to the eternal flames by cherry picking scripture. Unable to understand that I am a Gay Jesus Loving Christian 🙏😇!

These zealots love choosing to ignore being a Christian and loving they neighbor and understanding that the new Testament wipes away the old and middle books such as Leviticus which is basically Sharia law.

This is the kind of problems we who "identity" as gay deal with. We are the most oppressed identity out there, there is literally whole religions that want no better than to exterminate us for breathing. Many will throw us off buildings, whip us, and decapitate us.

Meanwhile, Trump is trying to decriminalize this across the world and save our lives but even the UN will not help.

The Gay community is a rainbow spectrum of many different races, sexes, religions, etc that has to put up with oppression all over this world.

So why do we celebrate "pride"...

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