Hot on the heels of his speech about being a proud gay man, Republican National Convention speaker Peter Thiel updated his calendar with a questionable speaking gig: a conference for insanely rich anarchists and racists.
It’s the annual conference of the Property and Freedom Society, and while the name may sound boring its members are anything but. There’s founder Hans Hermann-Hoppe from the University of Nevada, who said that in his ideal society, homosexuals and communists “will have to be physically separated and expelled from society.” There’s also Gerd Schulze-Ronhof, an author who says that the US, not Hitler, caused World War II. And Heiner Rindermann, a psychologist whose work is often cited by racists seeking to prove that immigrants have low IQs.
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In the past, attendees have also included Jared Taylor, a white nationalist who says that Trump is the first candidate to “say anything at all that resonates with a white advocate,” and that black people destroy Western civilization. There was also Tom Sunic, who helped a white-supremacy group called the American Freedom Party rebrand itself to get Trump elected.
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At any rate, Thiel has now changed his tune, pulling out of the conference after Towleroad and others highlighted his attendance. He had been scheduled to give a talk called “In Praise of Free Market Monopoly,” which certainly sounds like the kind of thing that would enrich the lives of the already-too-rich.
Alas, now Thiel’s name is gone from the event’s agenda, so the white nationalists will never know what he had to say about creating monopolies to crush the weak. Oh well, everyone’s loss.
Mo Bro
There seems to be a pattern of this website demonizing and belittling gay men who don’t believe in the liberal agenda.
Apparently, not ascribing to the same ideology is grounds for ridicule and degradation.
And you wonder where we get the rep for being petty and catty.
Alistair Wiseman
@Mo Bro:
It is an election year and Queerty is getting desperate.
“Free Of An Agenda. Except That Gay Left Marxist One.”
DCguy
Oh look, two of the sock puppet Log Cabin screenames are on here to defend a guy who was going to be speaking at an international Euro-facist convention that was started by White Supremicists.
Anybody notice that these two and their other screenames will always defend bigots and anti-gay attackers??
omacdonald
I’m just saddened by gays that support the Republican party. I hope that is not considered a blanket “demonizing gay men who don’t believe the liberal agenda”. It is just that they are supporting a party that put together a very anti-LGBT platform – calling for an end to our hard fought right to marry who we love. Many in that party still think it is a choice to be gay, and that we should not serve in the military. We shouldn’t exist if they had their way. So yes, when gays like Thiel, Yiannopoulos, or the Log Cabinners espouse their support that party, I cannot help feeling that they are gay versions of “Uncle Tom”.
DDstar1me
OK SO WHY CAN’T I?
Stache
@Mo Bro: Well, if by “liberal” you mean supportive of LGBT’s, workers, the poor, and other racial minorities then count me in as a liberal.
CWM85
Im with mo bro… Hillary is a fake, she doesn’t really support glbt rights. She just needs there votes now. Dems only want illegals, refugees, anti cop voters… they lnow they have lost the white vote so they create false victims to appeal to voters…Trump was first gop nominee to appeal to glbt community and then said, “as a republican, Im so glad you cheered that. Hillary has done nothing but use glbt to either attack, flip flop over. She can’t be trusted. Btw, trump sued and won a case against a golf club who wouldn’t allow jews or blacks to use club. Of course queerty, abc, nbc, cnn, msnbc, cbs ignore that… smh
Alistair Wiseman
@CWM85:
Of course, Queerty and the Democratic Media Complex ignored it as it does not fit their narrative.
mujerado
@CWM85: As a gay activist since the early 1970s I know for a fact Hillary Clinton is our friend and supporter. You’re either pathetically ignorant or a willful liar. I don’t care which it is; either educate yourself or stop lying.
Mo Bro
@omacdonald: The GOP has, sadly, been largely hijacked by the religious right in the last 20 years, but there are tenets of their platform that I support which outweigh my concerns over marriage inequality and DADT—mostly because, duh, marriage equality and gays in the military are now the law. Democrats, on the other hand, are actively trying to convince me that my welfare is most threatened by laughable things like carbon emissions and student debt, while Republicans are interested in addressing real-world problems like ISIS and the economy.
BTW, as a man of mixed race, I find the term “Uncle Tom” to be inappropriate, offensive, and unacceptable. Apology accepted.
DCguy
@CWM85:
Oh look Allistair created ANOTHER sock puppet screen name.
Paco
@Mo Bro: you do realize that the next President will be making appointments to the Supreme Court, yes? A high court controlled by conservatives can easily overturn any progress we have made. Unless equality for all, including LGBT, gets enshrined in the Constitution, all the progress we have made can be reversed. And you are kidding yourself if you think that putting gays back in their place, won’t be on their conservative agenda for this country.
AtticusBennett
behind every right-wing gay man is the family that wishes they’d sprung for that abortion all those years ago.
the right-wing wimps in here are proof.
gays complaining about liberals is like anne frank complaining about attics.
you poor broken boys. we know you need to hate liberals so your crap families will tolerate you, it’s just really pathetic.
you will never be supported and loved, and it’s no surprise why. you don’t deserve it.
Scribe38
@AtticusBennett: I love you. You make my day.
Love Trumps Hate
Mo Bro
@Stache: What kind of liberal forgets the “Q”? Bad, bad liberal.
Alistair Wiseman
@AtticusBennett:
Thank you, Miss Cleo.
dwes09
@Mo Bro: @Mo Bro: You are IN FACT AND ACTION an Uncle Tom. You ignore reality to throw your support behind people who think you less than they: less deserving of rights, less moral, less worthy of their “heaven”. Clearly having your own kind labeling you as what you are is less upsetting than telling lies in service of your better quality, more human, more christian overlords.
Marriage equality and the right to serve can (DUH) easily be overturned by a court with a few far-right judges appointed as your hero Trump has specifically promised to do. Just as the ruling of Brown vs.the Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (a decision you would have wanted upheld i assume, had you been alive at the time.
Uncle Tom…Uncle Tom…Uncle Tom. You deserve the label, wear it with pride, supporting the continued disregard for the lives of both your gay and bi-racial brothers (oh wait…you have no gay brothers other than the other log cabiners)!
omacdonald
@Mo Bro: I respect your position on fiscal conservativism. But I still cannot bring myself to support the same party that despite SSM being the law of the land, are still trying to repeal it. They continue to skirt the SCOTUS by passing these so called religious freedom laws that are really just an attempt to codify discrimination. They encourage clerks to humiliate our brothers and sisters when trying to get a marriage license. Despite the overwhelming number of LGBT victims in Orlando, the GOP had a real tough time condemning the slaughter as a crime against our community but are quick to scream antimuslim slogans when referring to the massacre. LOL, btw, I too am a man of color and my use of Uncle Tom is not racial but a reference to folks who would sell out their own for selfish benefits just like in the book. Despite all the soap in the world, everyone can still see the stains on these fellows’ noses.
dubril
The leftists in here are at it again, smearing with a broad brush. Reality is more complicated than their simplistic fantasizing allows for. A little known fact is that the Republican Party apparatus is controlled by what’s become known in Washington as the Gay Mafia, part of which is a gang of young gay men brought to Washington by Reagan from his years in California as Governor, in addition to the gay administrators at the most influential think tank in Washington, the Cato Institute, and other gays who’ve jumped on the power-behind-the-throne bandwagon, like Grover Norquist.
40% of Republicans now support gay rights. Interestingly, the clear majority of Republicans under 35 support gay rights. Significantly, the billionaire Thiel was invited to speak at the Republican Convention BECAUSE he is gay, a first. And his remarks were welcomed by the delegates. That signifies nothing short of a sea change in the Republican Party vis-a-vis the gay community.
In other words, gay rights is a non-issue for the upcoming generation of Republicans. It’s the old and the religious fundamentalists that the leaders of the party have to still appeal to to win elections. They are the ones responsible for the leaders of the party genuflecting toward the bullshit. But less so every election cycle. Leftists, like the author of the article, need to stop their uninformed, simplistic, knee-jerk carping at Republican gays long enough to look around and see what’s actually happening right under their noses. It’s a battle that’s taking place inside the Republican Party. And the religious, homophobic, social conservative ignoramuses are losing it.
The religious homophobes are dying off. Each election cycle their clout is weaker. They’re honestly, if stupidly, motivated by the misinterpretation of certain clobber passages in the Bible used by the Catholic Church for centuries as a justification for stigmatizing gays, even burning them at the stake or letting them live, but in jail. What needs to be done is for some gay on the Right to take those Bible-thumping religious homophobes’ arguments and refute them once and for all point by point. Then other gays need to pass the published record of that refutation out to their church congregations. It’s how a movement wins. And I mean a knock-down refutation that humiliates the religiously motivated homophobes, silencing them once and for all. They are really an ignorant, self-righteous lot. Jesus Christ, whom they all worship, mentioned homosexuals once, but not to condemn them. He could have. He condemned a lot of acts major and minor. But never condemned homosexuality. Hmm.
By contrast the Democrat Party is run by heterosexuals, mostly old, white males, with the exception of the ruinous Wasserman-Shultz.
I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again, supporting Trump is all about prioritizing values rationally. Which is more important, having a Democrat march in a gay pride parade, blather about gay rights every chance he/she gets, and marry gays, while inviting millions more gay-hating, gay-killing Muslims into the country, or a Republican stopping the migration of Muslims into the country because of the threat posed to gays by their regressive, gay-hating community? Hmm, that’s a toughy.
ALL the “moderate” Muslims in an audience in Norway raised their hands when asked if they believed homosexuality should be illegal? Talk about inviting a regressive community into the country. Yet the Muslim-loving leftists are hell-bent on inviting hundreds of thousands more of those gay-haters into the country. How is that supposed to improve the lot in life of gays in America and Europe? I’d rather be safe from Muslims attacking gays in the streets and shooting them up in gay clubs by a Trump who promises to stop Muslim migration to America and not only, but to deport Muslims already here, than be married to my lover by a Hillary Clinton type just before I’m shot to death by a Muslim she invited into the country, or worse, whose parents she invited into the country, and who is all ginned up to kill gays by his homophobic Muslim preacher at the local mosque.
Yianopoulous has come to America to warn gays about the dire consequences for gays in Europe from their politicians’ inviting gay-hating, gay-killing Muslims to migrate there. The Trojans didn’t listen to Cassandra’s dire warnings, either. And how did that work out for them?
Brian
I’m sorry but black people are among the most self-segregating people in America. Why is there black radio, for instance? Why are black people allowed to have their own radio stations?
As for Towle-road, it seems to have turned into a poor man’s TMZ and a propaganda site for the Democrats. Gone are the days when it was the go-to site for gay news.
mw11
Do your research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kypl1MYuKDY
Ukin
@DCguy: You are correct about that.
ErikO
Hillary and Obama were bought out by Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gave as much as $40 million to the Clinton Foundation. These countries have horrible human rights and it’s a crime to be lesbian/gay and bisexual where punishment is death.
Moreover, the level of Arab support for the Clinton Foundation, which occurred during the time Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, was seeking the Democratic nomination for president against Barack Obama, and was serving as secretary of state, fuels questions about the reasons for the donations. Were they solely to support the foundation’s causes, or were they designed to curry favor with the ex-president and with a potential future president?
Hillary is a domestic enemy. Vote Jill Stein 2016!
ErikO
@mujerado: No she’s not. It was not all that long ago that she was totally against LGBT rights, and flat out said how “marriage” should be between a woman and a man. Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, and even the Libertarian party candidates have never been against LGBT rights.
ErikO
@AtticusBennett: That’s not true at all and I’m not even conservative or right wing leaning; but you’ve proven yet again how you’re a troll.
dwes09
@Brian: Why is there black radio, for instance? Why are black people allowed to have their own radio stations?
Why are there gay bars? Why do women want women’s space? If you had any understanding of history and the dynamics of self determination you’d understand. If you understood the effects of oppression on culture you’d understand. But you are way too self absorbed and way too simple for that.
ErikO
@AtticusBennett: Gay men using Holocaust references is an extremely poor and silly analogy, and we’re not in Nazi Germany. Have you ever met anyone that survived genocide? If you have did you tell them how you believe that LGBT rights in the Western world are exactly like what they went through and survived?
dwes09
@dubril: You can choose to be run by fear if you’d like and allow it to loosen your grip on reality if you’d like. Progressives choose otherwise.
As for your fiction about the presence of gay men in the Republican party, the platform shows that to be a lie and nothing more.
“In other words, gay rights is a non-issue for the upcoming generation of Republicans. It’s the old and the religious fundamentalists that the leaders of the party have to still appeal to to win elections.” Three words: READ THE PLATFORM. Your statement is a lie you have bought into for some sad reason, if in fact you are a homosexual person.
dwes09
@mw11: As mentioned, a YouTube video is not research. There is no fact checking, no peer review, no bibliography, nothing. If YouTube were a source of truth we would have been either overrun by aliens or destroyed by planet X by now. Or we all would have cured cancer with garlic and apple cider vinegar. Get a brain for god’s sake!!
the right has been slandering Clinton for years, wasting taxpayer money to try and get their slander to stick and they have NOTHING. The stupid person comes up with conspiracies, the person with intelligence accepts reality.
Kangol
@mujerado: Go with both. People like CWM85 are so out of it they don’t realize that the GOP has supported massive undocumented immigration (which reached its zenith under GEORGE W. BUSH) because they love the cheap labor. Their white supremacist hero DRumpf just filed for massive H1B visas to bring in low cost labor, supplanting US workers. Mittens Romney who brayed about “self deportation” employed undocumented workers on his family estate. Businesses like Wal-Mart have made a killing employing undocumented people. They’re such f*cking hypocrites it’s not even funny. & they’ll throw LGBTQ people under the bus faster than you can say “homophobia.”
Kangol
@ErikO: No, she was never TOTALLY against LGBT rights. She was very supportive of LGBT rights, but did not fully support same-sex marriage. She has never advocated for stripping away LGBTQ rights like the national GOP. AS for voting for Jill Stein, that’s fine. Just so long as you realize that in a swing state you could be putting an certifiably insane narcissist in office and a moronic hom0phobe like Mike Pence a heart-beat away from the Presidency, vote your conscience.
Mo Bro
@omacdonald: Yes, there is a faction of the GOP that relies solely on their religious morals for direction, but in reality it’s only a vocal faction, not one that makes a lot of headway. How many pols supported Kim Davis, about 12? Everyone else knew she was being unprofessional and ridiculous. Trump isn’t going to target gay rights when choosing SCOTUSes, I believe he’s made that much clear. As a side note, I appreciate the civility in your response—it seems not to be a very common courtesy around here.
@dubril: Well said. I find the gay community’s embrace of Islam to be akin to Stockholm Syndrome. They believe kind words and cultural understanding will make everything just swell.
@dwes09: The guy who defends the religion that wants him dead has the audacity to call someone else an Uncle Tom. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Liberal Logic.
DCguy
@Mo Bro: Stated: Yes, there is a faction of the GOP that relies solely on their religious morals for direction, but in reality it’s only a vocal faction, not one that makes a lot of headway. ……..Trump isn’t going to target gay rights when choosing SCOTUSes, I believe he’s made that much clear.
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See, this is why nobody respects you Log Cabiners any more. You seem to think you can just make up lies and not get called out.
1. If the faction of the GOP relying on religion is only a faction that doesn’t make any headway, why then did every single candidate running for President speak out against gay rights, and how they would turn them back?
2. You say Trump has made it clear he isn’t going to target lgbt rights when picking Supreme Court justices. Really? Then please explain why he specifically SAID he would choose justices to reverse gay rights decisions.
So again, Log Cabin and gay Republicans are not nothing more than another anti-lgbt group whose only function is to defend anti-gay bigots any way they can, especially by lying.
Pansgayman
If you are gay & a republican, you are an idiot and deserve what you get,
Karma is a bitch and so is a gay person who supports the bigotry & hatred of the Republican party.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
There needs to be an ignore button implemented on this site.
NateOcean
“Behind every great fortune, is a great crime.”
Silicon Valley is full of his kind. They count their money and ascribe their wealth to skill or cleverness or innovation, but the truth lies just beneath the surface and more often than not it’s ruthlessness, or outright theft, or plain old dumb luck.
The humble ones will admit such, but the rest spend a considerable part of their good fortune and time, cultivating their personal mythology.
dean3000
AIDS took our best leaders and allowed scum like him to have a right wing voice. Right wing fags are the worst
robho3
Peter is a cra cra and an embarrassment to the gay community. You people that don’t know who he is should google him sometime- that man is off his rocker.
omacdonald
@Mo Bro: Thank you. I do not consider it healthy calling names during discussion. That said, the Log Cabin has been attempting to convince the Republicans to move a bit to the left with respect to LGBT rights for years and years now (for which I hope you succeed). Unfortunately, I have to say as an observation, the GOP has moved further right: consider that even the Bushes and Romney and other major party stalwarts are now called RINOs. Would Ronald Reagan be accepted today? Reagan signed immigration reform in 1980s – this is considered the third rail in the GOP today. Now in contrast, the Democratic party has moved to the center. Consider “the era of big government is over” declaration. Consider how we’ve had welfare reform and support for 100,000 police. I posit that perhaps the Log Cabin might actually achieve more success moving the Democratic party to the center to be more fiscally responsible than convincing the GOP to accept us. The Democrats have shown that they CAN move to the center. Maybe you might join the Democrats rather than staying in a party that hates you to their very core. Not all Democrats are tax and spend. I just cannot fathom working for a party for fiscal sensibility but at the same time consider me with contempt and deny me my rights. I disagree with the argument that the GOP is pro-LGBT – they’ve codified anti-LGBT in their very 2016 platform. I invite anyone to Google the GOP platform section “Defending Marriage Against an Activist Judiciary” to make up their own minds. Take care. Sigh.
Mo Bro
@omacdonald: Good points, all, O’mac. One of my own personal experiences, however, has been that lgbt people are quicker to condemn me for my political beliefs than gop people are for my sexuality, which speaks volumes to me about tolerance. And this is in SW Florida, where almost everyone is old and conservative, so I don’t see Republicans as hating me—just the religious right, and they’re so full of shit that I choose to ignore them (just as Democrats try to ignore the far-left anarchists that show up at every rally and start burning things). The gop and the dems have their faults, but when it comes to the big picture, I see the gop taking better care of their citizenry. Also, I just recently fathered a baby daughter, so I have to look at the long-term stipulations both parties are offering, not just what’s best for me. Be well.