Hey, Donald Trump wants everyone to “ask the gays” if he’s a friend to our community. That’s a great idea! People should ask the gays all kinds of things, because we have a lot of opinions. This was all part of his campaign, along with a bunch of crazy conservatives, to sign us up for their anti-Muslim canard campaign.
It seems the only time these people are nice to us is when they hope to enlist our support for campaign against other minority groups. But don’t they understand that as a community that’s been hated for years, the last thing we are going to do is join a hate campaign against another group, a group that actually contains many LGBT people as well?
Well, apparently not.
But if people are going to start asking “the gays,” we have a few questions, too, since Trump wants to be the leader of the free world. Does Donald support us? Has he been a friend? Is he going to do anything positive for queer people? Hahaha, of course the answer to all of those questions is no — he’s a narcissistic heir who only cares about money and himself and seems to have zero firm convictions, left or right. He’s against integrating bathrooms for trans people after he was for it; he’s against marriage equality after he was for its. What is he for?
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Like the good gays we are, we decided to diagram his positions in an attempt to make sense of them–just as we did last week on his every changing position on the the whole trans bathroom issue.
Here’s what we came up with….
Related: This Flow Chart Shows Just How Nonsensical Donald Trump’s Trans Bathroom Positions Really Are
Dave Downunder
More recycled articles what’s going on today?
Mo Bro
Hillary Clinton, 2004:
“I believe marriage is a bond, a sacred bond between one man and one woman.”
parrjj01
@Mo Bro: Hillary in 2004 – Trump this year.
joeyty
Queerty dares to criticize the intelligence of others after it : states Northern Ireland is Catholic in one article, and uses a photo of UK police officers for the article on the NYPD/Stonewall situation ?
Kieran
Donald Trump’s hand of friendship extended to the gay community is very troubling indeed. It would be so much better for us if the GOP Establishment had nominated one of their obvious homophobes like Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee. Someone who obviously can’t stand us, instead of this Trump with his Manhattan Values. Then the Democrats could safely take our votes, support and money for granted as usual.
martinbakman
Trump doesn’t use religion as his reason to be against us. He is rare among our political enemies.
The Clintons and most Dems will say anything to remain popular. Hillary was so noble when tipping her hat to dead Nanxy who had launched our great national conversation about HIV.
mujerado
@Mo Bro: Also Obama, even more recently than 2004. But they’ve both changed their minds since then. Why can’t you keep up?
Mo Bro
@parrjj01:
@mujerado:
Yeah, that’s my point. They flip-flopped. Or evolved. Or whatever. So why not expect the same miraculous evolution from Trump? Or are only Democrats allowed such a luxury?
zooby
@Kieran: You do know “OH well it could’ve been Cruz?” doesn’t prove anything, right? Cruz didn’t win, get over it. Quit bringing him up like that somehow makes Trump any better.
@mujerado: @Mo Bro:Yes, they evolved. Trump didn’t. He is not pro-LGBT rights. How can you sit here and say he’d somehow be better when all of his SCOTUS choices are anti-LGBT?
@martinbakman: Oh right, he just uses his arrogance to be against us. Like that is any better.
Creamsicle
This is a poorly constructed flowchart joke. It’s just a made up interview.
o.codone
Like it or not there are plenty of gays who are Trump voters. Do you have to insult us with the “Even Trump Supporters…” bitchy insult? There is no sense insulting people who are bringing in revenue to this pro democrat site. Can’t you leave the cheap insults out of it?
GayEGO
@Mo Bro: Marriage Equality is here because people and learned and evolved to support us. My lifetime partner of 54 years, married 12 years in Massachusetts, are both retired and living the American dream. Hillary is part of the majority of Americans who have learned and supports us. Trump is an unstable idiot who says what he thinks will benefit himself.
GayEGO
@parrjj01: Dump the Trump!
GayEGO
@GayEGO: Whoops! People have learned, not and learned! :>)
Bob LaBlah
Party affiliation not withstanding it seems hard to believe that the resignation of George Will from the GOP in protest of their support for Trump is not newsworthy for the gay press to report on. I know it might seem as though it isn’t a gay issue but to remain silent on it shows how shall the community has become. It is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to be more conservative than Will and his resignation is noteworthy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-will-exits-the-republican-party-over-trump/2016/06/25/2b6cdcaa-3b09-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html?hpid=hp_special-topic-chain_georgewill-430pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory#comments
Mo Bro
@o.codone: Hear, hear.
Brian
Hillary Clinton is much worse than Trump. Her Clinton Foundation reportedly accepted cash from Saudi Arabia, a place that executes gay people. I don’t trust her any further than I trusted Richard Nixon.
DCguy
AAANNNNNDDDD Again, lets run through the reason that the anti-gay self hating Trump supporters give lgbts for voting for him.
1. They say “Trump hates Muslims and Muslims hate gays!”
But they leave out that every single GOP presidential candidate attacked LGBTs AND they, including Trump promised to roll back lgbt civil rights if elected. It was Christians that spent over 100 million in the last 5 years pushing anti-lgbt laws, and it was Christian groups helping fund the “Kill the Gays” bills in Africa.
2. They say “Well Trump is ACTUALLY Pro-gay, he’s just pretending to be anti-gay to get votes”
So in other words, they say “Vote for Trump because he is a liar and you can’t believe what he’s saying.”
joeyty
@DCguy: That’s just your simplistic manner of seeing it.
joeyty
@DCguy: ” It was Christians that spent over 100 million in the last 5 years pushing anti-lgbt laws, and it was Christian groups helping fund the “Kill the Gays” bills in Africa.” LOL. Africa. I’m sure you’re worried about that.