Tag Archives: GOProud

The Washington Examiner reports: President Trump confirmed Monday his upcoming appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a major annual gathering of conservatives near Washington, D.C., that will take place next week. Trump’s speech to the conservative confab in 2011 is widely viewed as the beginning of his foray into politics. The president attended CPAC just a few weeks after …

From LGBT For Trump founder Chris Barron: “Donald Trump once again made it clear that he is the only Presidential candidate committed to protecting LGBT Americans from the threat posed by radical Islam. While Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama refuse to even acknowledge the threat of radical Islam, Donald Trump is committed to destroying ISIS and fighting the spread of …

Via press release: Today, a group of gay Republicans and supporters announced that they are hosting a party at the GOP convention called “Wake Up.” The party will occur at the Wolstein Center Ballroom on the campus of Cleveland State University from 10 PM to 1 AM on Tuesday July 19th. The party is headlined by Milo Yiannopoulos, the outspoken …

Breitbart today published a column from the administrator of a homocon group which supports Trump’s flip-flop on North Carolina’s anti-LGBT hate laws. From the article: The LGBT left wants to keep all of us sexual minorities away from the center of American life — because that’s how they get to keep control — or at least influence — over us …

This event appeared yesterday on the Facebook page for LGBT For Trump, which was launched earlier this month by GOProud founder Chris Barron. #ShootBack is a party taking place during the GOP Convention. Organized by a coalition of gay Republicans who — like all Americans — were shaken by the tragic massacre in Orlando, our vision is to bring together …

Last week homocon Chris Barron, co-founder of the defunct GOProud, launched “LGBT For Trump” despite have once denounced Trump as a “sociopath.” Last night openly gay New York City Councilman Corey Johnson pointed out that pesky fact in a heated exchange on CNN. Barron responded, “Hillary Clinton is a bigger sociopath than Donald Trump will ever be.” Seriously. Watch below. …

CNN reports: A prominent gay Republican is coordinating an effort to mobilize a coalition of conservative lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) voters in support of Donald Trump, CNN has learned, a project that has intensified in the wake of a terrorist attack at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. Chris Barron, the former president of the now-defunct gay conservative …

As I recently mentioned here, it was the homocons at GOProud who first gave Donald Trump a foothold in the political world when they sponsored his speech at CPAC 2011. Five years later they say they are EVER so sorry about that. CNN reports: Trump came to the nation’s capital at the behest of GOProud, a small upstart group of …

Tim Mak writes at the Daily Beast: Reports began trickling out in the press this week that GOProud had decided to close up shop. In truth, the original organization functionally folded a year ago, The Daily Beast has learned. And the attempts to reboot GOProud are being actively mocked by the men who founded the group. The decline of GOProud …

Two days ago Bilerico posted a report that GOProud was closing down to “rebrand” under a new name. That claim spawned furious denials from various GOProud members on social media. Yesterday Bilerico posted an update: After Andrew Markle’s story yesterday that the far-right conservative LGBT group GOProud was shutting down, the organization’s leadership took to Facebook to deny the reporting …

A couple of days ago I posted a portion of the anti-GOProud flyer being handed out at CPAC by the red-caped Catholic loons of Tradition, Family, and Property. Above is the full cartoon that was used on the flyer, in which we see that the GOProud rainbow beaver is gnawing on Ronald Reagan’s stool. Make your jokes accordingly.

The red-caped Catholic loons of Tradition, Family, & Property are handing out a flyer at CPAC that depicts GOProud as a rainbow-hued beaver gnawing at one of the supporting legs of conservatism. Or something. Via Peter Montgomery at Right Wing Watch: TFP’s flyer says it protests against GOProud’s efforts to “cast itself as a bone fide member of the conservative …

Barron resigned from GOProud last week after the group was allowed to return to CPAC after two years of being banned. If anybody here has the above-cited email, please forward it to me. UPDATE: Here’s the email. Dear Friends, On Tuesday GOProud sent out a statement encouraging Governor Jan Brewer to veto Arizona Senate Bill 1062, which would have legalized …

GOProud founder Chris Barron is furious about the deal in which CPAC has invited the group back to attend this year after two years of being banned. Last night he resigned from GOProud’s board of directors. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: “Last night I resigned from the Board of GOProud, the organization that I co-founded back in April of 2009. …

GOProud will return to CPAC next month after two years of being banned. But they won’t be allowed to have a booth or sign on as a sponsor. Via the National Journal: The dispute with GOProud dates back to 2011, when a number of socially conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council, objected to the group’s …

“Today, I joined the ranks of unaffiliated voters. I am every bit as conservative as I’ve always been, but I just can’t bring myself to carry the Republican label any longer. You see, I just don’t agree with the big-government ‘conservatives’ who run the party now. The other reason I am leaving is the tolerance of bigotry in the GOP. …

“Jimmy LaSalvia of or formerly of GOProud is on Facebook letting everyone know Ken Cuccinelli is the 2013 equivalent of David Duke. Because two dudes not being able to buy a china pattern together is the same as not being able to vote, being forced to use separate bathrooms, and being attacked by fire hoses and dogs in the streets. …

Does he think we forgot that GOProud endorsed Romney?

Led by former GOProud head Jimmy LaSalvia, two dozen wingnuts outfits are calling on Capital One to fire Alec Baldwin for “homophobic speech.” “We urge all Americans to ask themselves, ‘What’s in your wallet?’ We hope they will reject Alec Baldwin’s homophobia by cutting up those Capital One cards in their wallets,” said gay conservative strategist and GOProud co-founder Jimmy …