The Log Cabin Republicans want you to know: They’re “not so sure where [Melania Trump] got her passion for equality, but it was there. And it was real.” Who are they trying to convince there?
The line comes with the kind of dead-eyed, listless delivery one might expect from a three-minute video celebrating the former First Lady as a “champion and inspiration” to the LGBTQ community.
“Let’s be honest,” says another participant, “the gays love Melania Trump.”
The cognitive dissonance may as well be satire except that… it isn’t.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The video was produced to accompany an award the LGBTQ Republican organization presented Melania with over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago — the “Spirit of Lincoln Award.” Because if there’s one thing Abraham Lincoln was known for, it’s that he had “I really don’t care, do you?” stitched to the brim of his stovepipe hat.
In a statement announcing the award in September, the group explained its decision. In part, it read:
“In the heat of the presidential election last year, the First Lady passionately reiterated her husband’s commitment to LGBT Americans, supported diversity of thought, and made clear that we are welcome members of the Republican Party, a historic moment not just for LGBT conservatives but for the history of the GOP.
“Melania Trump’s acceptance to be the guest of honor at the Spirit of Lincoln Gala even after she has left the White House only reaffirms her unwavering support for the LGBT community.”
The reference to Melania reiterating her husbands’s commitment to LGBT Americans is presumably a reference to her making a video last year for fellow gay GOP group, Outspoken, in which she criticized “cancel culture mobs” and anyone who thought her husband anti-gay.
“Nothing could be further from the truth,” she said in the video. “As leader of the Republican Party and (as) president of the United States, Donald has been clear that gays and lesbians will be treated as he has always treated them: equally.”
During his time in office, advocacy organization GLAAD kept a record of Donald Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ Americans. It came to more than 180 by the time he left office and included such actions as attempting to ban trans people from serving in the military.
Be best and watch below:
Last night, Log Cabin Republicans presented First Lady @MELANIATRUMP with our annual Spirit of Lincoln Award at Mar-a-Lago for her dedication to our principles.
Watch LGBT conservatives explain why the First Lady is a champion and inspiration to our community.
Thank you! ?? pic.twitter.com/pP3RVarDLH
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) November 7, 2021
Dijonaise
If you are a gay republican, please eat a bullet. You are a waste of skin. Your self hate is toxic to everyone and everything you touch.
G-Man
Thank you!
GayConservMan
The loving left strikes again! LOL
GayConservMan
Hey @Queerty, this person LITERALLY just told people to go KILL THEMSELVES! No matter WHAT your political stance is, this is DESPICABLE and this person should be banned from this site FOREVER!!
barryaksarben
Gayconservman I would support you if not for the FACT that many in the gop called for the death for AIDS patients or if not death confinement to a concentration camp complete with tattooed numbers. That was the lovely Strom thurman. ANd many of the heartless soulless evil pieces of sh*t that went alone with him are still there. Grassley to name one. Trump lied about everything and he really lied about supporting gays. EVERY real metric proves his administration was the absolute WORST for gays and lesbians and will never be topped for its horrible anti trans bullshit. Go somewhere else as we are sick to death of the rights bullshit fake outrage. This woman hasnt give one of her very few actual thoughts to gays. You are so sick and twisted in your self hatred that your judgement is wrong
Cam
@GayConservMan
Except you support a party where members support a business that “literally” donated money to pass laws in Uganda to legalize killing LGBTQ people.
gregg2010
I’m trying to remember one pro-gay tweet, statement, or mention from Melania Trump. Can anyone out there help me? Anyone? Anything?
Rugby8
Hmmmmm?????
…..nope
Lol
barryaksarben
IF she ever did it was a lie just like her husbands lies to us
kish
Chadwick Moore is pathetic. One time I saw him at a gay bar and he got so upset at a drag queen, who was making fun of John McCain (before his death) that he had to go outside to calm down.
GayConservMan
You sound like you are totally telling the truth . LOL!!!
cliche guevara
That was cringy but at the same time SNL could run it unedited as a skit and it would be hilarious.
CNY1983
Is there an LGBTQ GROUP that dishonors her? I’m interested in hearing from them not these asswipers.
THAT Steve
I think most LBTQ groups and individuals stopped thinking about h er the moment she left Washington.
ShiningSex
These queens are self loathing and should be ashamed of themselves. GROSS!!!!!
barryaksarben
Liek the million moms the group has so few members but the right will use their name to try to make it look like there are more than a few insane assholes support the right
ddonts
The Log Cabin Republicans are an embarrassment to the entire country. How can they stand to live with themselves?
james7
All republicans are funny. The Log Cabin republicans are HILARIOUS. i didn’t capitalize “republicans” intentionally.
Matthewnow
Donny and Melaria. Two dicks. Nuf said. OOOOOOOOOkay!!
MynameisSid
Be honest, this is a pitch for a sitcom, right?
paul dorian lord fredine
against my better judgement i watched the video. i want to puke.
Sotzume
These republican gay men are an abomination……I hope the award was in the shape of a lamp post like the one Melania stands under waiting for her “clients”.
Tombear
What exactly did Melanoma do as First Lady? NOTHING!
NCDavid919
There were those hideous Christmas Trees…lmao
wiggie
Destroy the Rose Garden
marshal phillips
Her assistant at the White House said she kept busy with her photo albums filling up many scrapbooks with pictures of herself as a clothes horse.
Paris in Santiago
These people are bat shit crazy.
They look hostile, predatory & racist.
Mack
She’s a “pole dancer” and all the LCR cares about is the “pole”.
Agility
It was nice of all the white men to let that one white woman speak for a second.
billybobs
Puke
gjg64
To quote a Stones song…
“ Well now you’re a pillar of society
You don’t worry about the things that you used to be
You’re a rag-trade girl, you’re the queen of porn
You’re the easiest lay on the White House lawn
Get out of my life, don’t come back”
Winsocki
GayConservativeMan then what is your take Trump defending Jan 6 traitors who wanted to hang Mike Pence? O like you are all sensitive to death threats unless they come from conservative politicians. Anyways the only thing that LogCabin GOP ( woodenheads) forgot about Melania for gay rights, was Melania’s right to do soft porn nude lesbian sex photo shoots. Now that was gay friendly when Melania took on her scissor sister persona as a lipstick lesbian. Mention that please.
jcool
the log cabiners were thankful that melania accepted their award. at mar-a-lago. where they had to pay trump to hold an event. yup.
Rich85
The cognitive dissonance is staggering. I found out my oldest friend and his young husband attended this event and it made me sick to my stomach. I haven’t spoken to them since then and don’t quite know how I ever can again going forward. He a smart successful guy, his political beliefs make no sense whatsoever. Being gay and attending this event makes you either really stupid or a really awful person, I’m not particularly interested in remaining friends with either.
barryaksarben
DUDE do not go near them again. they are a cancer on the gay community. They give the bigots in the gop the ability to say the gays love trump which is so not true
jcool
to barryaksbarben
exactly. kind of like that one paid black man that sat behind trump at televised events holding a sign saying “blacks for trump”.
GayConservMan
He and his husband will be better to not have such a horrible human being in their orbit. If you cannot agree that we can all have our own views and beliefs, YOU are the problem. Not them.
I lost a few friends due to me coming out a second time as a conservative, and my life is BETTER WITHOUT THEM!
YOU are the problem. Not us. YOU are the ones calling us stupid, awful, etc. etc.
Look at the current state of the United States – it’s disastrous what has happened. And it is ALL on BIDEN!
But, thank God for “no more mean tweets,” right?
By the way, Trump did NOT ban TRANS people, he banned TRANSITIONING people on the advice of the head of the military because they are on drugs that alter their chemistry. You can’t be on this kind of drug and in the military.
But, because you are led by the news media – that is overwhelmingly left focused – you believe everything they say as complete and 100% truth!
By the way, the STEELE DOSSIER is now being exposed as fake and most of what all you lemmings have believed has been lies and fake as well.
Trump never said to inject bleach, he said there’s something like disinfectant, like bleach, that can help combat the disease.
Anyway, ALL of this is out in the open but you can’t get past Good Morning America or CNN to look further.
Cam
@GayConservMan
I love it when people defending bigots think that by parsing words it helps your case.
1. Trump did ban Trans people.
2. The fact that you somehow think it makes him less bigoted if he only banned “Transitioning” people shows how deep into the bigoted kool aide you’re actually trolling from.
But we get it, all you trolls have is to cry and scream that you’re being attacked when people point out your hate, rac-ism, and anti-LGBTQ bigotry.
GayConservMan
@Cam, you think it is ok for someone to serve in our military that is on mind-altering / chemical-altering drugs?
Den
@ gayconservman: Are all gay conservatives as dull and cowed as you? Do you all swallow lies whole and bend the knee so willingly to your hetero overlords. Will you all go willingly back into the closet if the christian core of the republican party gets their way?
You folks actually ARE as bad as the Jewish people who mistakenly supported the National Socialist Party (before you fools make a response, the Nazis were right wing despite the name) thinking somehow their money and class allegiance would save them. And I say that as a Jew, a Gay man and a progressive. I don’t think you should kill yourself, but I do see you as a fool and a danger to the gay community. Overwhelmingly (if votes are any indication 85% of us) we do not welcome you as you are supporting those who wish us harm. Any derision you get is well deserved child!
Cam
This group no longer really exists. It’s state offices are pretty much gone, they also won’t tell people where any money they have comes from, they don’t open up about all the people behind the scenes.
It is now a group run by straight republicans to put out a phony press release absolving them of charges of bigotry when they need it.
GayConservMan
You are either 1. lying or 2. have no clue what you speak of.
I am a member of the Log Cabin Republicans. Our president is a VERY gay man and our membership is GROWING by leaps and bounds.
But, nice try. As the best President in my lifetime says: FAKE NEWS! But, you likely knew this.
Liar.
Cam
@GayonservMan
You have to love the troll that screams “WE ARE GROWING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS” but can’t post any proof.
Also, funny how the only thing I’ve seen are articles talking about somebody trying to restart one or two of the state chapters and failing.
As for your “President”, you mean the fundraiser who carries the title and continually cries about how hateful the “gay left” is every time they defend themselves against Republican bigotry?
See, you forget, some of here remember stuff…you know, like when Log Cabin Republicans, who had spoken out and praised Chuck Hagel suddenly ran a full page ad in the NYTimes attacking him and demanding Obama not appoint him as defense secretary. Then got busted as being a front organization to funnel money from people outside the group to pay for the ad. So the group that had no problem with Hagel before, was happy to act as a front for an ad they didn’t pay for when told to by the GOP.
That’s all the group is, a front, you know it, I know it, everyone on that phony board knows it.
But it’s how upset you get when it’s pointed out.
GayConservMan
I am gathering actual stats but I am a member of this organization and
1. Many new chapters have been started in the past year.
2. Our OUTSPOKEN event grew by more than DOUBLE the amount from year to year.
3. The Spirit of Lincoln Gala at Mar-a-Lago SOLD OUT. People were turned away.
But, please, speak more about that which you know NOTHING about.
Den
I see that you never succeeded in gathering your “actual stats”. The LCR no longer publishes membership numbers, much as the “million moms” does not. And the reason is painfully obvious. The FACT is that generally 15-20% of LGBT people vote republican, and many few are dull enough to actively join a group determined to support the party fighting to restrict our rights as well as disenfranchise other minorities. I have seen claims that many of the 30 some odd chapters of LCR exist in name only, but given that membership is kept secret, one cannot be sure (but it seems pretty sure to be the case). And there are groups in only 24 states. Hardly seems vibrant and growing to me.
The past few years the LCR have been wracked by resignations of officers as well as by the ongoing refusal of the RNC to recognize or actively engage with the group. They hate you and yet you grovel before them, pitifully.
This statement from a recent article about the New Hampshire LCR groups kind of sums up how pitiful you folks are:
“Dan Innis, a Republican former state senator and longtime activist in the LGBTQ community, says it’s well past time that his party formally recognizes gay marriage on an equal footing with marriage between a man and a woman.” SIX YEARS after the SCOTUS’ historic decision, the party you beg to be accepted by still tries to ignore the decision, just as they are still trying to destroy feminist advances and the enfranchisement of Blacks, Latinos and Native americans!
CNY1983
just watched this again. wow whee time for a where are they now follow up for these logged cabin republickkkans.