Tag Archives: GOProud

First in a new web series, The Log Jam.

After endorsing numerous virulently anti-gay GOP candidates, including Romney, who signed a hate pledge to ban same-sex marriage via the federal constitution, GOProud’s Jimmy LaSalvia has suddenly decided that Republicans should start backing gay unions. RELATED: GOProud’s 2012 endorsees did not fare very well. Aside from the incumbents who were in zero danger of being unseated, the majority of GOProud’s …

“We congratulate Barack Obama on his win. The President performed a spectacular political sleight of hand in this election. Instead of this election being a referendum on his failed record on jobs and the economy, Obama and his campaign successfully made this about side-show issues and the culture wars.” – GOProud head Jimmy LaSalvia, whose slate of endorsed candidates largely …

“I don’t understand the GOProud people either. Why are they voting for someone who’s against gay marriage, gays in the military? The Republican platform wants to roll back into ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ I mean, that is completely retro. It’s not all about your pocketbook, guys. I guess they feel their money will protect them from homophobia. A lot of …

U.S. House candidate Chad Lee, who is running for Tammy Baldwin’s seat against openly gay state Assemblyman Mark Pocan, has fired GOP campaign worker Kyle Wood, who has recanted his claim of being violently beaten for being gay conservative. The Lee campaign put out a statement Monday night saying that Wood had been dismissed.  “Today, our campaign unfortunately learned that …

I guess Kyle Wood was busy today. Hear that dog whistle?

Last week the wingnut blogosphere exploded on the claims of a gay Wisconsin GOP campaign worker who claimed that he’d been brutally beaten for being a gay conservative.  From the right wing Daily Caller: Kyle Wood, a full-time volunteer working for GOP House candidate Chad Lee, was hospitalized for injuries suffered during what he said was an assault at his …

Michelangelo Signorile digs up an old clip from Mitt Romney: “Today, same-sex couples are marrying, under the law, in Massachusetts. Some gays are actually having children born to them. We’ve been asked to remove the phrase ‘mother’ and ‘father’ and replace it with ‘parent A’ and ‘parent B.’ It’s not right on paper. It’s not right in fact. Every child …

GOProud is super upset that people are taking seriously the words of their own keynote speaker Bay Buchanan, who last week said, “Governor Romney also believes, consistent with the 10th Amendment, that it should be left to states to decide whether to grant same-sex couples certain benefits, such as hospital visitation rights and the ability to adopt children.”  I’d post …

“Governor Romney supports a federal marriage amendment to the Constitution that defines marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. Governor Romney also believes, consistent with the 10th Amendment, that it should be left to states to decide whether to grant same-sex couples certain benefits, such as hospital visitation rights and the ability to adopt children. I referred …

The star of Sen. Scott Brown’s latest campaign ad has quite the Facebook page. Matt Sledge reports at Huffington Post: Scott Brown recently got in hot water for falsely claiming that his Senate race opponent, Elizabeth Warren, was using paid actors in her commercials. But it turns out that Brown is perhaps the one who should have known more about …

Yesterday GLAAD denounced Ann Coulter’s tweet making fun of gay kids who get disowned by their parents.  Today, as he does every time GLAAD is mentioned, GOProud’s Chris Barron responded with, “But…but…JOE JERVIS!”  Via the Advocate: Coulter ally and GOProud cofounder Christopher Barron, however, told The Advocate on Wednesday, that GLAAD was overreacting to the author’s joke. He added that …

From a press release posted by GOProud: “This administration simply can’t be taken seriously when it talks about debt and deficit reduction when it chooses to spend money researching ‘gaydar’,” said Christopher R. Barron, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist for GOProud – a national organization of gay and straight Americans seeking to promote freedom by supporting freemarkets, limited government, and a …

GLAAD’s Aaron McQuade isn’t laughing. I recognize that this is a joke, and that she is not really taken seriously in any context anyway, but with this coming right after National Coming Out Day, at the start of Ally Week and just days before Spirit Day, I thought this would be a good opportunity to talk about this idea of …

“I travel the country talking to average gay people, and I can tell you that for millions of gay Americans this election is about survival. I have heard the stories of gay families and couples worried about how much longer they can hold on, living paycheck to paycheck, facing the loss of their homes and fearing the loss of their …