Tag Archives: Quislings

NBC News reports: The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans is the latest official to resign from the conservative LGBTQ group after it recently endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election. Less than a year after after she became the first woman to lead the group, Jerri Ann Henry, a lesbian activist who fought for the legalization of same-sex marriage …

“Jennifer is a friend and up until 24 hours ago she was a fellow board member with me on the national board. But like so many disaffected Republicans who have not been comfortable with President Trump and with his record, I look at the question of, ‘Is America is better off now than it was four years ago and is …

The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson today asked Trump if he’s OK with his administration’s recent steps to make it easier to discriminate against LGBT workers.  His response: “Well, you know, I just got an award, or an endorsement yesterday from the exact group. You saw that? They gave me the endorsement yesterday. I’ve done very well with that community and some …

The Washington Post reports: Jennifer Horn was pushed right up to a line she swore she would never cross. Her GOP organization, where she sat on the board for several years, had just endorsed President Trump for reelection, something she says she would never do herself. Faced with the thought of having to explain that decision to her children in …

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: In a turnabout from 2016, the National Log Cabin Republicans has endorsed Trump for re-election, asserting he “met his commitments” to LGBT people. Robert Kabel and Jill Holman — who both are gay and serve as chair and vice chair of Log Cabin, respectively — announced the endorsement Thursday in an op-ed for …

Former Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo and his cabal of self-loathing Quislings have launched a petition to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell which demands that he refuse to allow a vote on the Equality Act.  “We, the undersigned members of the gay community, formally ask that Leader McConnell never bring the Equality Act up for a vote in the …

“Mayor Pete has been pushing this hate hoax along the lines of Jussie Smollett for a very long time now, several weeks, and I find it really ironic that Mayor Pete stayed silent about this so-called hate hoax on him and others during 2015, 2016, 2017 when Mike Pence was governor. There was total silence. It’s ironic that right about …

Vox reports: New York City’s prominent LGBTQ event space The Center, which bills itself as “the heart and home of NYC’s LGBT community,” sparked a major controversy this week for holding an upcoming event by a right-wing organization, the #WalkAway campaign, geared toward convincing LGBTQ people to leave the Democratic Party. Twitter users started to call attention to the March …

Former Log Cabin president Gregory Angelo writes: Don’t be fooled by the name: The Equality Act is legislation that would compromise American civil rights and religious liberty as we know it. All reasonable Americans, especially gay Americans who support pluralism and tolerance, should oppose it. In 1975, when it was first introduced in Congress, this legislation was certainly more needed …

Former Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo has written a typically stupid piece of gaslighting for Fox News: Despite false accusations made against him, Mike Pence is not anti-gay. As a gay man myself – and someone who not only cares deeply about these issues but advocated on behalf of the LGBT community myself for years – this is not …

Newsweek reports: President Trump said late Sunday that he has experienced “presidential harassment” since the start of his presidency. Trump has previously blamed “presidential harassment” for drops in the stock market and has used the term to describe special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference. Earlier this month, Trump claimed in another tweet that his approval rating would …

The New York Times reports: In some ways, they are a typical political power couple seeking to “Make America Great Again.” They are throwing a $5 million fund-raiser for President Trump this winter, and are quick to make it known that they have the president’s sons’ cellphone numbers on speed dial. They have poured more than $50,000 of their own …

The Log Cabin Republicans today issued endorsements for 18 Senate and House candidates. Fourteen of their endorsees are incumbents, four are challenging Democrats for House seats. Perhaps most notable on their list is upstate New York Rep. Claudia Tenney, who last appeared on JMG for her claim that “many” mass shooters turn out to be Democrats. “Yeah, well, obviously there …

Patrick Saunders reports at Project Q Atlanta: Brian Kemp reiterated his support of anti-LGBTQ “religious freedom” legislation just as a gay Republican group endorsed the newly-named GOP gubernatorial nominee. Kemp signed a pledge to support “religious freedom” legislation last year. He stood by it at a Republican “unity rally” on Thursday after trouncing Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle in the GOP …

The Economist reports: Like many others at an LGBT pride parade in Kokkola, a small town in Finland, Sebastian Tynkkynen is proud to be bisexual. Unlike most of them, he is also proud to be anti-immigrant. Mr Tynkkynen represents the nationalist Finns Party (formerly the “True Finns”) on the city council of nearby Oulu. He also used to lead the …

Mediaite reports: Milo Yiannopoulos is advocating for lethal violence against reporters who contact him for comments on their stories. “I can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight,” he texted the Observer‘s Davis Richardson, responding to an inquiry involving an article in progress on a Manhattan restaurant the right-winger is said to visit often. According …

The Daily Beast reports: Peter Boykin, the founder of the right-wing activist group “Gays for Trump” who is running for the North Carolina House of Representatives, believes transgender troops “would be our weakest link.” Speaking to The Daily Beast, Boykin said he believed that transgender soldiers are “mentally challenged” and too expensive for the military. “As long as there are …

Michelangelo Signorile reports at Huffington Post: Log Cabin Republicans leader Gregory T. Angelo told me last year at the Conservative Political Action Conference that President Donald Trump was “the most pro-LGBT Republican president in history.” In an interview with me on SiriusXM Progress at CPAC last weekend, Angelo implied that Trump is even better for the LGBTQ community than former …

Triad City Beat reports: Gays for Trump founder Peter Boykin is challenging a Democrat in a bid to represent a Democratic-leaning NC House district in Greensboro. An outspoken, gay Trump supporter and proprietor of MagaOneRadio.net, Boykin filed on Monday as a Republican in House District 58. “I’ve been telling people that in order to make change in the GOP and …

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 …