Newsweek recently ran a story about a bogus poll conducted by the hookup app Hornet that found a large percentage of gay men plan to vote for Donald Trump in November. Of the 1,200 people surveyed, 51 percent said they supported Joe Biden in the upcoming election, compared to 45 percent who said they supported Trump.
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Despite being called out by media outlets and professional pollsters for being incomplete, inaccurate, and “unlikely to be representative” of LGBTQ voters, Fox News still ran with Hornet’s poll as though it were true. Tucker Carlson even had gay conservative Eddie Scarry, author of “Privileged Victims,” on his primetime show to talk about it.
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We decided to do a deep dive into the #GaysForTrump and #LGBTQForTrump hashtags on Instagram to see if we could learn who these alleged 45% of gay people were, as well as to see if we might be able to learn why they support a candidate who has been actively working against their best interests for three and a half years.
Here’s what we found…
innocentgay
This tells us nothing. You didn’t summarize, repeat, speculate, or otherwise report what you found in any other way besides giving these people free views of their bullshit and idiocy. I haven’t explored those hashtags because I don’t want to give them any engagement, and you’ve done just that without any challenge or context whatsoever, just plunk, here’s some white supremacists and self-hating minorities, and here’s what they want to say!
I’m not normally one to go in on Queerty for low-effort reporting, but come on, this is not only low effort, but actually amplification of the messages of all these deplorables.
Rewrite it with some conclusions, please.
Matt1961
I completely agree with this post. Queerty pulled a hammy here. Went for gold and pulled up way too short. How about some engagement here. Is queerty interested in the community or simply crummin for clicks.
martyjim
Right on! I kept waiting for the in depth analysis and perspective, but alas, no beef. This was virtually worthless.
jlew64
Silly me thinking the “deep dive” would give some explanation or analysis of the why behind their support. If Queerty was trying to get me riled up by giving a voice to these deploables, they’ve suceeded. I have to stop thinking of Queerty as anything more than the teen fan magazines I read while growing up. Nothing but click bait and nonsense… 3-days now of Zach’s brother “jiggling” in his underwear?
JromeGervais09
I completely agree with you. I would believe that this is gop trolling to stir up the gay community and give a false message to straight trumpsters.
CityguyUSA
Who ever said that there aren’t uneducated LGBTQ? No one that I’m aware of but those are the typical Trump voters. People that think they lived through a time when America was great. Most haven’t because it was a very short lived Era following FDR and the end of WW2 up until the coup by the CIA to overthrow Mosedek, the democratically elected president of Iran, which resulted in gasoline prices going through the roof along with heating. That period was when the US was growing rebuilding the world post WW2 jobs easy to get, the wealthy taxed at 83% meant the government was well funded, corporations were well controlled and they had no trouble paying for labor or their benefits. A period of about 25 years.
That was only for the White people as blacks were still enslaved by Jim Crowe laws and redlining by realtors keeping them in the inner cities. It was a well known fact that if a black family moved into your neighborhood real estate values would drop overnight.
Women were largely stay at home moms because they were only qualified to work as teachers, secretaries, nurses, hygienist and other fields that revolved around people needing the motherly love occupations. Many didn’t even drive.
Queers largely thought of as pedophiles and were easily terminated if exposed. They worked largely as teachers and school physical education where they could monitor showering. Also, largely employed as priests and oddly protected by the Catholic church and yet today they are still being outed and the church still hiding them before they got exposed by little boys telling their parents only to be disbelieved by their own family.
Most families had stories of aunts and uncles that lived the spinster, old maid or bachelor life. You avoided these homes on Halloween as everyone knew.
Still reeling for the grand old days.
Mack
I recently reconnected with my ex from 44 years ago. He now owns a business with his lover. When we were together he was “bi” and had a wife and 4 kids in NY. Because he didn’t have a good paying job they received every State and Federal Assistance there was. Now he’s a Trump supporter because too many people are using the system without paying their share. I had to laugh my ass off. We were together for five years that the government supported his family, then he was with a woman for a few more years while the government supported his family, then another guy the same thing. Can’t make this shit up.
Matthewnow
Thank God you had a catch and release program.
dhmonarch89
I’ll have to scroll through this page again when I need to lose 5 pounds- I should vomit enough to accomplish that!
Roger Doremus
Why do right wing wackos (regardless of sexuality or gender) often look like overgrown fetuses?
dhmonarch89
DO NOT HAVE SEX WITH A GAY REPUBLICAN! That’s probably the only way they’ll get it.
CityguyUSA
Actually they tend to be pedo conservative politicians who pay their pages to let them blow them or they make use of airport bathrooms. I hear the wide stance is popular.
dhmonarch89
I get that people can have differences of opinions and think differently on various subjects….BUT…. the Republican Party Platform- since 1992, has included planks that refuse LGBT rights and equality. There IS NO more important issue than your right to equality!!! If you’re willing to forgo civil and equal rights for a tax cut or foreign policy- you are a a despicable piece of shit who’s stabbing the rest of us in the back! If we ever do gain full equal rights- then I could accept people breaking off into other parties, but until then- VOTE BLUE, you idiot traitors!
My2CentsWorth
The Trump administration’s foreign policy is dismal. The fiscal policies and actions will push the U. S. closer to replicating the Zimbabwe economical disaster. The U. S. has been in a decline since the 50s or 60. Because of Trump the decline will be steeper and maybe . a series of periods of free fall. The U. S. now has a record high national debt. Inflation is rising and will become an issue, maybe before Trump’s next 4 years are over (this will happen regardless of who is the president).
Equal rights? Just as the Jewish people were blamed for problems over the centuries the “others” will be blamed for the future disastrous.
PhillyProud
Actually, after the AIDS crisis and how republicans treated us then STILL keeps me from being a republican. But, their platform now is to reverse Marriage Equality. With the death of RBG and trump’s nomination, that has come one step closer to reality. Have any of the gay republicans actually had to fight for any of their rights?
Mister P
Thank you DHMonarch
Catholicslutbox
I needs ta go to one of these idiot marches.
Prax07
Most everyone in those pics look like inbred pieces of crap. Not surprised they support another piece of crap. To follow/adore/idolize a narcissist who’s main ideology is nothing but hate and lies just shows those people have zero self worth and zero common decency. They’re garbage just like their messiah.
frapachino
That’s exactly why they chose those profiles! You Marxists are the cruelest most hateful people I’ve ever seen, you are as bad as the KKK and alt right!
FunInTheSack
Your comment is why there are so many Gays for Trump.
Continue on to be exactly what you supposedly stand against. Labeling individuals and using low class name calling.
Is that the best you got?
Plenty of my Weho gay friends are voting for Trump.
Trump 2020 by a landslide.
ShiningSex
@fatpachino and @ funinthesack, you all are fake gays. no self respecting gays would vote for Trump for ANY reason other than racism. Trump is a POS and you know it.
So go back to your inbred groups and stay out of our community. Look up what liberal means and learn it. Trumptards made liberal a bad word when it has NEVER been one.
Heywood Jablowme
@FunInTheSack:
“Continue on to be exactly what you supposedly stand against. Labeling individuals and using low class name calling.”
Just like your hero Trump! It’s funny you can write “low class name calling” and apparently you don’t even notice the irony.
frapachino
A recent poll found that 45% of the gay community will vote for Trump!
GRMonLI
And 51% in the same poll said the they would vote for Biden. Get the facts straight. (No pun intended).
James
Take an enema nut job, you’re full of sh*t.
sjdoug
Frapachino… you didn’t even bother reading the few sentences of this article. Most of this “deep dive” article is just re-posting of posts. Not very analytical, intellectual, or original.
jlew64
Did you not even bother reading to the second paragraph of this article here? The poll was deeply flawed… or did FAUX news not bother to tell you that part?
Texasholdem
If Hillary had won these idiots would be supporting her re election. There are some folks who feel like winning is more important than anything.
zealot
I don’t understand why giving these folks space is helpful or enlightening to a healthy political discourse. You can’t explain or quantify self hate, voting against your own best interests or the lack of logic involved in their political positions. It’s frustrating in the extreme when you encounter people who think it’s perfectly fine to give away your rights to satisfy your lack of attention as a child. If they have their way in the upcoming elections, they will lose more than they will know. But it will be too late.
Prax07
Then your weho friends are stupid, stupid people that deserve Everything that will happen if Trump wins and has his nazi way. Do you actually think Trump’s anti-gay and evangelical supporters will pause to thank you for your vote as they stab you in the back by stripping your rights away or possibly worse? Trump, the god of the self hating, low self esteem, inbred mutants thanks you for your stupidity.
CarterATL
How does the one from deplorable.homo not violate Instagram’s TOS? It is nothing but kill, kill, kill. The only people worse than these people are the executives at Facebook.
storm45701
Really, it should be called UGLY gays for Trump. Admit it; look at these people. Are we going to be beating down any of their doors anytime soon? None of them could get laid at an orgy.
FunInTheSack
Such a gay vapid response.
You attack their looks as if that’s that only thing of value anyone has to offer. As if getting laid in an orgy is what we all strive for and equate to as success.
But yes according to you it’s, it’s the Trump supporters that are the ones filled with hate.
You’re not only exactly what you stand against. Your focus on physical appearance is disgusting.
And for the record, guaranteed I can pull more ass than you can. Seeing that’s what your concern is. So now what?
Trump 2020!!!
James
And the reply putting down your post and calling it superficial is from some republican loser called funinthesack.
JessPH
These are the reasons why siblings should NOT reproduce.
Liquid Silver
Where’s the article? All I see is a bunch of re-Tweets without context, reporting, or analysis? Am I expected to do the work? I think not.
Weak reporting, Queerty. I don’t come here for the prizewinning writing, but I expect some effort. This one was practically crapped out onto the site.
xiphoid76
These are definitely the best representative tweets of those of us voting for Trump. I am voting for him because I believe in the police and support law and order. Seeing the riots in Minneapolis have scarred me. The Democratic leadership here was useless and I can not have that happen in the future. I also am against the economic devastation caused by unnecessary draconian lockdowns that have caused such economic and mental health despair. I will still wait to see how the debates go, but I need Biden to come out strongly in support of the police and to end his call for a repeat national lockdown for me to be able to vote for him. This will likely be my first time ever voting Republican. If I would have told this to me 4 years ago I would be shocked. Minneapolis used to be a beautiful city, now it is a homeless encampment with crime rampant and looting every other week. Can not stand for it.
jjose712
You are voting for him because you are deeply stupid.
Sorry, but only a really stupid person will vote for someone who is totally ready to strip him from his rights
Vince
Are you really at that level of stupid to think the Republicans and the Trump Crime Syndicate are about “Law and Order”?
We now have 200, 000 dead because of the Trump virus and his mishandling it at every single turn.
This is what Republicans do. Fu*k everything up and then blame the Democrats. It’s expected every single time they get into power.
Hdtex
Another triggered reich-wing troll heard from.
James
GET LOST YOU UGLY SELF CENTERED NAZI TRASH LOSER.
Josh447
Hmm, deep dive? There’s not one rational reason vetted here as to why these people are voting for Trump, in the article or comments section. Two words explain volumes as to why gay people should not vote for Trump: Mike Pence. It’s really that simple.
Deep diving in the shallow end does result in severe head bump.
scdel
Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it. There were Jews in Germany in the thirties that cooperated with Hitler and were later sent to the camps. There can be no gratitude expected from the ungracious.
My2CentsWorth
As I was reading this article and the comments I keep thinking of the shocking discovery that there were Jewish people who supported Hitler despite the on-going anti-Jewish action of the Nazis. This is a repeat.
ffmikey
Its not so much what politicians say but instead what they do. It was Clinton and the Democrats that passed DADT, the most repressive legislation that affect our nations military. As a veteran I can attest to the fact that gays were serving openly in the military in the 1960’s. From enlisted men, to NCO’s and even officers. A few years ago I met a openly gay young Marine who had served in the middle east. After he was returned to the states he was discharged under DADT. Thankfully for him and others in the military DADT was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court after a lawsuit had been filed challenging DADT by a conservative gay organization. The young latino was able to no only re-enlist but the Marines sent him to law school as a commissioned officer. Obama and the democrats may attempt to say they repealed DADT but in fact all they did was delay the time it took for the repeal to take effect for one year.
Hdtex
Just another collection of ugly, low IQ Trump supporters. Surely they must know they will be the first ones into Trump’s ovens.
FunInTheSack
You are one sick twisted individual.
How righteous you are to downplay the holocaust for your rhetoric narrative.
Gross.
I’m willing to bet anything. Name it. That no one will end up in a ‘Trump oven’.
Yesterday, he listed the KKK as a terrorist organization. Something Obama never did.
Sicko. It’s people like you with that warped reality is why Trump will win.
Trump 2020!!!
ShiningSex
@FunInTheSack (which i’m sure you’re not),
First off Trump only SAID he’d make the KKK a terrorist group like antifa and antifa is NOT a terrorist group. He also referred to BLM as one previously but didn’t say it to his “black” voters. Get your facts rights you moron. The Holocaust has also been denied by a large group of Trump supporters. Google it. Why? Because they are racist pigs!
twinkerboi
Ugly please I’m a sexy Bitch
Larry
Check all the IP addresses and see if they come from Moscow. Then come back with that data please.
ShiningSex
GAYS THAT SUPPORT TRUMP ARE JUST RACIST. END OF STORY.
I KNOW 3 COUPLES THAT ARE (AND NO LONGER FRIENDS) AND THEY’VE SHOWN THEY’RE RACIST. SAYING IT’S BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY IS A COP OUT. THE ECONOMY IS IN THE SH*TTER AND IT’S A LAME EXCUSE TO SUPPORT SUCH A RANCID POS.
lwdurant
Painfully obvious that these are white. Probably racist. Probably hate their lives. Have to blame someone for their complete failures. Can’t stand that someone else, especially a minority, would be superior to them. Life in a trailer park. WHOHOO!!
James
GAYS FOR TRUMP…….. SICK PEOPLE. SICK MINDS. USELESS NOBODIES.
James
ALL I SEE ARE A BUNCH OF WHITE KOOKS AND NUT JOBS WHO DON’T CARE ABOUT GAY PEOPLE.
James
HORNET THE “WEBSITE” THAT DID THE POLL THAT SAYS 45% OF GAY PEOPLE ARE VOTING FOR TRUMP, IS A RUSSIAN TROLL SITE RUN BY RUSSIA, TRYING TO DESTROY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
Knightofhearts2017
Are you mentally ill? You’ve replied to nearly half the comments here and you shout everything. It’s really obnoxious.
rockland2u
why waste these horrid pics, take the ones that will do the most damage and flood the evangelical trumpsters with them, and stand back and watch the conflict, they will loose some of that superiority and entitlement if they think, they have to support the LGBTQ community in order to support trump. what a joke,
MISTERJETT
everyone send a letter addressed to PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. c/o THE WHITE HOUSE 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, NW WASHINGTON D.C. 20500.
gaym50ish
1,200 respondents from a hookup site do not constitute a random or representative sample of the gay community. No legitimate polling organization would respect the results of this survey.
Dick Gozinia
I don’t understand how anyone with any class, compassion or intelligence could vote for Trump. You would like to think that LGBTQ are better than that, but we’re not.
nunya
I still can’t bring myself to vote for a senile person with a record of nearly 50 years in politics with nothing to show for it except becoming a millionaire.
James
GO MOAN TO AMY CONEY BARRETT THE NEW SUPREME COURT PICK WHO IS AGAINST GAY PEOPLE. I AM SURE THAT HAG WOULD BE INTERESTED IN YOUR STUPIDITY.
Vince
You’re a fool and a real piece of shit.
DeeMatt
This ‘Deep Dive’? I see someone got to show support for a monster in an underhanded way. This was not a ‘deep dive’ of anything. This seems an obvious intent to showcase the tweets from Gays for Trump. Showing all these gays supporting a person that has had no issues about doing to Americans and others, the unthinkable, is so low based and most importantly what is most bothersome after the misleading article headline, a sneaky way to hopefully garner MORE gay support for the orange monster in our WH. I’m out of here. Stay well and keep yourselves safe.
James
UGLY STINKING ROTTEN TRUMP TRASH LOSERS. ROT IN HELL. YOU WON’T BE WELCOME ANYWHERE.
winemaker
It might come as a surprise to a lot of gay people that there are lots of gay Republicans and no they’re not deranged or ‘traitors’ for being Republicans. Most if not many at one time were liberals and have seen just what the democratic party’s become and are tired of being used as pawns and being lied to and pandered to for votes every time an election comes around and having to listen to the same BULLS**T over and over’ the Republicans are homophobic and will take away your rights etc’. And after the election, they’ve been left behind and nothing positive changes. The democratic party has lots of ‘anti gay’ members who just tolerate us for votes, pure and simple. People have gotten smarter and smarter and realize the liberals basically have done little to nothing, (actually NOTHING, at least as far as California’s concerned) to improve their lives, living conditions, costs of living and economic opportunity. This pretty much is also true for the Latinos, blacks etc. Living in San Francisco, ‘the liberal gay mecca’ that under the liberals and their fiscal incompetence and no common sense mismanagement has become an overpriced, dirty and bum infested CRAPHOLE that awhile back attained the moniker the ‘doo doo’ capital of the USA.., sad to say. There was a time San Francisco was a great place to live, clean, well run fiscally well managed and, relatively affordable for the middle class. I’ve got one question that sums it all up: Just what have the liberal:, pelosi, feinstein, newsom, harris and all of the other countless liberals done to improve California and the lives of it’s residents? I’ll wait for a credible answer but won’t hold my breath. Too late: the answer ZILCH, ZIPPO, SQUAT and basically NOTHING. Time for the gay community to think for themselves for a change and stop being sheep !
Vince
I’m curious. How do you make housing there affordable since you’re placing all the blame on the democrats?
James
GET LOST. YOU’RE NOTHING BUT A WHINER AND A COMPLAINER WHO WOULD SELL YOUR OWN MOTHER. FUK OFF CREEP.
Knightofhearts2017
Out of all the morons in this comment section… It would appear that James takes first place ?
drumstick
There is no such thing as “Gays for Trump”, there’s only selfish idiots…
McSteve
This ‘deep dive’ was as empty and vacuous as….well Queerty
bachy
Social media has been a great boon to Russian web brigades. It has given them an opportunity to disseminate political distortions on a broad scale in order to sway the public to vote for Trump. Why is Queerty giving them a helping hand?
Gay Thomas
I know well over a thousand gay people. Only one to my knowledge is voting for Trump. As a percentage, gay people will be the worst demographic for Trump. Don’t believe this nonsense.
Joshua
I am not surprised that there are gay men and lesbian women who would vote for Trump. Some people do not focus on one issue, but multiple. Some might vote for Trump because of his economic policy, or even his anti-trans policies or maybe his climate change policy.
There could be many reasons. The LGBT community is not one united group of like-minded people. We don’t all agree on every subject.
James
WELL THAT CERTAINLY IS A LAZY DO NOTHING APPROACH TO LIFE. A COP OUT, A LOSER WHO CAN’T GET IT TOGETHER APPROACH. AN ENABLER. FUK OFF.
ARE YOU GOING TO DEFEND GAY NAZIS NEXT.
dannyboi2
Trump and his enablers are liars and racist – period- no excuses, That’s a subject we can all agree on.
Heywood Jablowme
The real figure is about 14% of LGBT voters went for Trump in 2016. Down from about 30% for Bush in 2004.
James
30% OF GAYS FOR TRUMP, ONE OUT OF THREE………. I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT. MAYBE ONE IN TEN.
Knightofhearts2017
James, sweetie, THAT’S NOT WHAT HE SAID. Please go take your meds!
James
FACE IT, GAY TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE ALL CRAZY AND RACIST.
dannyboi2
110% agree.
FunInTheSack
James, your post would indicate you are the crazy one. Though continue to self-project.
I live in the heart of Weho. I also know 1,000’s of gays. Many silent Trump supporters.
Also fun to have subs commit to voting for Trump in a dominate/sub role.
The vile comments on this thread come from Biden supporters. Says everything…
So much self-hate. The labels the LGBTQ community has worked so hard to dismantle are hurled against your opposition. The hypocrisy is off the charts.
The debates are going to be awesome.
Trump 2020!!
Knightofhearts2017
FunInTheSack
You give me hope. Despite being a RaCiSt, HoMoPhObiC, etc., Trump supporter, you are one of the very few here whose comments are not inundated with ad hominem attacks.
#Trump2020!
dannyboi2
Oxymoron -noun
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).
All I could think of as I read and watched all these attention seekers. The age of Social Media, who can get the most likes or trolls to get your post to go viral. What we should be talking about instead is how to get this 51% to #VoteBidenHarris2020 ASAP and stop giving these morons a Platform.
Knightofhearts2017
You think gays who openly support Trump are just clout chasers? Look at all this hatred in the comment section… Being an openly gay Trump supporter means being rejected by the vast majority of the gay community, dealing with unending hate. “Ironically,” those showing the most love/tolerance in this comment section (and IRL) are the TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
rray63
First, don’t bother with calling me a troll, I’m not. But I do have some questions for us enlightened and tolerant folks. Should all Trump supporters, hideous as they are be moved to some country other than ours? We can give the receiving country some money to help defray costs. Or wouldn’t it be better if we just built some death damps and marched them straight in and got them out of our hair forever? What about racist that are not lily white Trump supporters, what about racists and bigots in our own alphabet community, should they be dealt with in the same manner? I mean we do have these options since none of “those” people are redeemable, right? I agree sometimes with the comments and sometimes I don’t, I rarely say anything. But if you can look at yourself in the mirror and honestly answer these questions, what will your answer be?
Mister P
Dump supporters lack critical thinking skills which is nicer than saying they are stupid
Hillers
The common thread seems to be that they all feel attacked, but can provide no solid reasoning for voting for a party that does not side with LGBT rights. I think a story interviewing a sampling of these people would be more interesting and informative.
Knightofhearts2017
Which rights has Trump been fighting to strip away from the Alphabet Community? Other than the military trans ban or whatever.
glennmcbride
What a terrible title to the article, “We did a deep dive into #GaysForTrump so you don’t have to and here’s what we found” – There was no deep dive or an analysis at all. Where are the interviews and real statistics that one might expect from a “deep dive? ” One of the worst articles i have seen on Queerty.
CityguyUSA
Here’s a wakeup for you all. Gay conservatives are so real they have their own group known as the Log Cabin Republicans. How many liberals have a nationwide group pursuing our agenda? 0! There isn’t any because liberals can’t be bothered with something as mundane as politics although there are few things that affect you and your entire life as much.
rray63
You really believe that, right?
Cam
Log Cabin Republicans completely collapsed. They don’t even have offices in most states anymore, they are a trolling group to help cover for Republican bigots.
Log Cabin did well under old leadership when the leadership said “We’re conservative, but we can’t endorse any Republican that takes an anti-LGBTW stand”.
Then that leadership left, and the new leadership that came in, attacked pro-LGBTQ democrats and endorsed anti-LGBTQ Republicans.
Membership collapsed, and pretty much all of their state organizations closed. So nice try.
Cam
Oh Please. LGBTQ blogs did the same thing in 2016. They did story after story on Gays for Trump”, or would have people from Log Cabin Republicans write Op Ed pieces and did dozens of stories on them.
Then, when Gays for Trump actually had an event, Less than 12 people showed up. So we got story after story as if they were a group of 2 million and when they finally had an event they barely had enough people to field a baseball team.
Tombear
Can you imagine a gay man wearing a MAGA ball cap into a gay bar?
mark.linnartz
I agree with the commenters that say …. “where’s the actual substance to this story”?!?!?!?! This is a glorified retweet, not journalism. Graham Gremore you should put at least a modicum of effort into your work before publishing it.