Cuomo Continues Comeback Tour With Speech To Group Behind Massive 2011 Anti-LGBT Hate Marches [VIDEO]

March 17, 2022 Democrats, Hate Groups

Politico reports:

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued his attempt at a comeback tour Thursday, laying out his own state budget priorities even though he’s out of office and denouncing what he continues to call a cancel culture that led him to resign in August amid sexual harassment allegations.

Cuomo gave an address and answered questions from the crowd for an hour at the Bronx church run by former Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., a conservative Democrat whom the former governor often sparred with over same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

But with Cuomo looking for opportunities to tout his accomplishments and try to remake his scandal-scarred image, he accepted Diaz’s invite last week, often joking during the appearance about their differences but also their friendship.

The New York Daily News reports:

Cuomo’s decision to associate himself with Diaz drew swift outrage from LGBTQ advocates, who noted that the ex-lawmaker has a long history of anti-gay views, including claiming in 2019 that the City Council was “controlled by the homosexual community.”

“How dare he? Is he out of his f—–g mind?” longtime gay rights activist Allen Roskoff said of Cuomo’s planned visit to Diaz’s church. “In one swoop he has made the LGBTQ community his enemy. It’s so sad, as he was considered a good friend for past deeds. Now those are in the garbage.”

Rich Azzopardi, Cuomo’s spokesman, pushed back against the idea that the ex-governor‘s church visit should be interpreted as an endorsement of Diaz’s views.

As longtime JMG readers will vividly recall, it was Diaz and the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization that in 2011 led two massive anti-LGBT hate marches through the city’s streets, one of which infamously featured a call from the stage that gays are “worthy of death.” I attended both of those marches and have the video. When I made this observation on Twitter this afternoon, Cuomo’s flack instantly blocked me.



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