Last Friday, a gaggle of angry, self-hating gays hit the streets of West Hollywood for a maskless “Gays and Housewives Take Over WeHo” march to flaunt their internalized homophobia show their support for a president who has spent the past three and a half years chipping away at their rights.
The event was organized by the Log Cabin Republicans and drew roughly 50 MAGA proud gays who caused a scene by shouting at people peacefully dining at tables outside of restaurants and bars along Santa Monica Boulevard.
A group of 50 LGBT Trump supporters are marching through West Hollywood. They have marched from the Pacific Design Center to Rocco’s, right in the heart of Boy’s Town. 4 sheriff’s patrol cars are following. pic.twitter.com/tTEzLwjq48
— Samuel Braslow (@SamBraslow) October 24, 2020
WEHOville reports:
The rally of Trump supporters was one of a rare few that have taken place in West Hollywood, a city where only 8% of registered voters are Republicans. The city is known for its official opposition to Trump, with City Council members John Duran and John D’Amico in 2018 having given the key to the city to Stormy Daniels, the porn performer whose allegations of an affair with Trump sparked a controversy. Mayor Lindsey Horvath once declared that Trump is not welcome in West Hollywood, and the City Council asked that the Trump star be removed from the walk of fame on Hollywood Boulevard.
Trump people are harassing bar goers in West Hollywood right now in San Vicente and Santa Monica#weho #WestHollywood #laprotest pic.twitter.com/N5Ij3l6f43
— Sean Carmitchel (@ACatWithNews) October 24, 2020
Several videos posted to social media show red-hatted marchers walking shoulder to shoulder without masks and chanting things like “Gays for Trump!”, “Freedom!”, “Four more years!” and “We love Trump!”
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Earlier this month, “Trump Pride” held an event for gay Trump supporters in Tampa, Florida, during which Tiffany Trump gave a drunken 10 minute speech before a room of roughly two dozen people.
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Cam
So in the largest state in the nation, with one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the nation, near where the modern Republican Party was born in Orange County….
They couldn’t even get 60 people.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mecmass
Are you sure these are actually gay men and women? Right from his Presidential announcement campaign when he came down that escalator at Trump Towers to an adoring crowd, we learned that ir was paid ACTORS that he had hired to cheer, clap and chant for him. Using paid actors to pose as pro-Trump LGBTQ folks sounds exactly like something he has a history of doing in order to make himself appear adored and to stroke his ego. I’m not convinced it’s real.
Cam
@mecmass
You’re right, most likely the people who showed up are just straight, paid actors!
leebuffy69
Im embarrassed for these people, Wait until trump takes away ALL your rights etc…….
Norm
He takes away their rights, they’ll love him even more! Isn’t that the scenario of a trump supporter? They don’t like themselves and they think they deserve to lose their rights and like him for taking them. Then they’ll turn on us normal people. It’s some kind of mental sickness that’s just coming out like corona did. All these losers that don’t like themselves, straight, gay, black, are the one’s that like trump. trump doesn’t like himself so they see a bond there, a common bond. They follow a loser that’s like they are. They have to be in psychotherapy but you can’t convince them they need it.
Sqwoah
Whoever wrote this article has some internalized homophobia that is off the charts! It’s homophobic to think that we should all have the same political opinions. We are each full and complete human beings, not 2-dimensional stereotypes. I guess the kid (I presume) who wrote this thinks we should all listen to the same music and wear the same clothes and read the same books too.
We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by pressuring each other march in lock step and be carbon copies of each other. Just let people be who they are without all the shaming.
radiooutmike
I think we all here that understand anyone can vote for anybody as long as that vote abides by their conscience. Gay people don’t all have to be carbon copies of each other.
I would expect that as members of a marginalized group, these “Gays For Trump” would logically vote for the candidate(s) who will ensure/expand their civil rights as an American.
But they do not. So, let’s say they’re not attention whores and will actually vote for Trump/Republicans. What would be the reason to do that? The only reason I think you would do that is if:
1) You are a contrarian
2) You are an asshole
3) You are member of an entitled group, usually white men, who can reap those benefits, while not being a “typical gay”
4) You are wealthy or socioeconomically isolated from the anti-LGBTQ policies
5) You are an idiot
To vote against your own or your affinity group’s self interest, in this case, is literally homophobic.
Sqwoah
@radiooutmike
They have their own eyes and ears and life experiences and points of view. To dismiss them as “assholes” or white men (who I guess don’t deserve respect in your opinion?) minimizes and disrespects them. They are a minority within a minority. I think we all know what its like to be different and not experience the world as the majority does. How about we respect their differences and not gang up on them like a bunch of mean girls?
Cam
You can always tell the Republican troll accounts because they always try to hide the terms “Anti-LGBTQ bigotry” behind the phrase “Different political opinions”.
Translation: You think that a man who rapes and murders women, and the women who don’t want to be raped and murdered have “Different political opinions”.
Sqwoah
@Cam
I’m not a republican and I didn’t vote for Trump. You really shouldn’t be so quick to make assumptions about people you don’t know.
If the entire presidential election was about gay rights and nothing but gay rights, you may be right. But its not. Not even close. There are lots of issues to consider and we, the American public are only really given two choices. Because somebody has different priorities and values as you, doesn’t make them a bad person…even if they’re gay.
We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by forcing this political and cultural binary. It wasn’t that long ago that the majority decided that gay people were disgusting and morally deficient. They ridiculed, shamed and hated the gay minority, never bothering to try to see things from their perspective. Let’s not repeat that same attrocity to this gay minority.
James
GO FUK YOURSELF TRUMP TRASH.
DarkZephyr
“@Cam I’m not a republican and I didn’t vote for Trump.”
Yet you’re still essentially declaring that the man who rapes and murders women and the women who don’t want to be raped and murdered have “different political opinions”. Do you do that with a straight face? This is NOT about “political differences” are you kidding us??? This is about protecting ourselves from people who want to *actively* harm us! This is about people who claim to be our own people…VOTING for people who want to actively harm us! Like them, you’re on some other sh**, Dude. Regardless of who you voted for.
ShiningSex
I repeat, being Gays for Trump is like “Blacks for the KKK”. Makes NO sense!!! It is stupid. You would be supporting a moron that has taken away transgender rights in the military. They lost their pensions because of him. Republicans want marriage equality overturned. Where is your head? I guess I know where…..so get it out of your *ss.
Sqwoah
@ShiningSex
Do I think transgender rights should be curtailed in the military? No, I do not. Do I find it unreasonable that a gay person might think that transgender rights in the military should outweigh all of the other important issues that go into choosing a candidate to vote for? No, I do not.
I hear Trump supports rant about a lot of things. Revoking marriage equality is not one of them. I’m not saying the right is right and the left is wrong, or vice versa. I’m just saying reviling people who aren’t participants in your echo chamber is dehumanizing and is not a good way to accomplish anything.
Barlow
Girl, stop it. You’re not making any sense. The Amy Coney Barrett nom is literally a vote for overturning marriage equality, and she’s a TRUMP NOMINEE. “Oh, but she’s going to rule on all kinds of things, not just marriage equality…” Yeah, we know.
SoCalDave
We get it Sqwoah, you feel seen. Sorry the truth hurts.
DarkZephyr
@Sqwoah
How are you not grasping the stark reality that the GOP leadership wants to harm the LGBT community and that the people who vote for them are *knowingly* voting for those who want to actively harm us? It doesn’t bleep-ing matter if these people might “personally” support us, they aren’t holding their leaders to ANY sort of accountability so their leaders have no reason to stop trying to harm us. These Trump voters, LGBT or otherwise, are a massive part of the problem and the ones who ARE LGBT are traitors who deserve even less respect than the non-LGBT Trump voters.
Beachman
Since you obviously don’t understand the meaning of a ‘big word’ like homophobia, I’ll use another one…..YOU’RE AN IDIOT!
I suggest you start googling these long words you clearly don’t understand before you make such a moronic statement.
ElPillo
Please, please, reread the article. Yes, people are free to vote for whomever they want. The article is about people who vote against their own interests. Many voters are ignorant. In the video, someone shouts “do your research,” maybe they do, partially. They focus on a single issue they like without looking at secondary effects.
t
There’s a difference between having a difference of opinion and being a hypocrite. Gay tRump supporters are hypocrites. You cannot claim to support me as a gay man, being an LGBTQ person yourself, but then support someone who wants to take away my rights. It doesn’t work that way. And I REFUSE to listen to gay tRumpanzees stating that the orange baboon supports gays. That is an outright lie perpetuated by elitist gays that are using the excuse as a copout to avoid admitting how hypocritical their political views are. Either you’re a hypocrite or you’re not. There’s no middle ground here. Period.
mecmass
I believe you’re making a false comparison. LGBTQ folks supporting Trump is not simply a difference of opinion. like listening to a different kind of music or choosing to wear a different kind of clothes.
One of Trump’s goals is to remove all rights from gay and trans men and women. Have you forgotten that within a few weeks of his inauguration, one of his first acts as President was to kick all the patriotic trans Americans out of the military? That he and McConnell just rammed through a Supreme Court Justice who belongs to an LGBT hate group and has a history of trying to block same-sex marriage through her court rulings?
Trump is a flat out anti-gay bigot. Don’t blame the author of this article for making that his premise because it’s the plain truth.
Gays supporting Trump is almost form of masochism. It’s sick. They’re voting for the person who wants to take away their civil rights along with stripping them of their dignity and humanity. Please don’t compare this to their having a choice of which shirt to wear or how to get their hair cut.
Cam
@Sqwoah
Sweetie, you tried the old troll tactic of hiding anti-LGBTQ bigotry and hate behind the words “Different opinions” and got called out on it.
Now you’re trying the OTHER old troll tactic of claiming to be a member of whatever group you’re attacking.
Don’t get pissy because you were caught.
o.codone
@radiooutmike. Enough of the name calling, “you’re an asshole”, “you’re an idiot”. Is this the the grade recess yard? Are you a little girl? Grow up, and shut up.
WSnyder
Homosexuals who support Trump allow their bigotry, racism and stupidity to trump their empathy and queerness. This stunt organized by few remaining Log Cabin Republicans [remember a large number resigned before and after the 2016 elections BECAUSE of Trump] is to remain relevant and hold onto power in the LCR after Trump goes down in flames.
If you look at actions being taken by many GOPers right now and put it thru a simple lens of what the GOP will be after November 3rd, it makes more sense. It’s no coincidence that the backroom chatter has people positioning for where they will be in the post-Trump GOP. If Trump thinks things are rough now, what until they shove the spit up his *ss and roast him over the fire for the implosion of the GOP. You can bet while some will do this overtly, there will be many in the shadows pulling the rug out from under him and sharpening the knives of the Democrats who will carve Trump into little pieces.
Just Watch. [And Vote if you haven’t already, dammit].
phillycap
Very likely these weren’t gays for anyone. They were gays for pay.
johnnymcmxxx
White Gays can be just as racist as straight racists. They are disgusting.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Trust me you don’t need to be a gay “ republican” to know that gay men in general are the most discriminating, judgmental catty assholes on planet earth
DarkZephyr
It really pisses me off too, as a white gay. HOW can these a**holes be this way when they themselves are part of a marginalized group? We’re SUPPOSED to be better than that. GOD it infuriates me.
Cam
@TheAbsoluteTRUTH
What a shock, the right wing troll who ALWAYS defends anti-LGBTQ bigots uses this post to attack the gay community.
Dijonaise
These are paid actors, I saw the same faux “gays” at Pride 2016 in SF. No question that the magats did this before. Their duplicity knows no bounds.
TomG
I do not even believe these people are gay. NO GAY person in their right mind would support the homophobe in the white house.
ShiningSex
Gays wouldn’t dress that way either. LOL.
@dusyk
Hump for trump lol
JromeGervais09
How much did the rethuglicans pay these goon “queers” to do this protest march? I would question these persons to find out who they are; where they come from; are they starving actors? This looks like a set up protest by the lying GOP.
ShiningSex
Gays for Trump would be like “Blacks for the KKK”.
It makes NO sense!!! They’re morons!!!
My2CentsWorth
Correct. It is not that much different than Jewish people supporting Hitler.
If Trump continues as president he will stack the courts with extreme right wing fundamental faux-christians who will reset the clock for minorities to the 1930s.
Kangol2
Um, hello, there are Black LGBTQ people, you know. So the better analogy would be “Black People for Drumpf,” and yes, they exist. And yes, Don the Con Drumpf is extremely racist. He’s a White supremacist, in fact.
montegutdude
If the gathering only drew 50 people, maybe it doesn’t warrant a mention? More people gathered in every church in town this weekend and I doubt I share much politically with those gatherings either.
Cam
Oh please, all of the gay media gave groups like this hundreds of articles during the 2016 election, making it seem like they were a massive group. Then when “Gays for Trump” finally had an event around 12 people showed up.
The media hasn’t learned it’s lesson.
James
50 LOSERS WITH NO FRIENDS.
mrdarcy
Next time they have a dick in their mouth, they should realise they only get to do that because someone once fought for their right to do so. And they weren’t republican.
Joshooeerr
I know, Godwins Law and all… Still, for students of history, it’s eerie how much this scenario (and sooo much of Trump’s playbook) resembles the way extreme groups in places like Nazi Germany felt the need not just to be seen and protest, but to harass and harangue people in public, even with no knowledge of their political leanings. America might manage to make a sensible choice at the polls next week, but I fear this isn’t going away anytime soon.
Kangol2
Ivana Drumpf, Don the Con’s ex-wife, told Vanity Fair in 1990 that Don the Con’s bedside reading–what little there was–consisted of The Speeches of Adolf Hitler. Don the Con has admitted that he owns a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
So in addition to adopting an approach that draws heavily from the Nazi’s rise to power, their use of propaganda, their promotion of private militia forces, their championing of extrajudicial killing and state violence, etc., Don the Con has steeped in Hitler’s words.
throwaway82
Losers, desperate for a pat on the head.
metta
They expressed themselves. That’s fine. It’s done. I agree with them that we live in the USA. That is pretty much all I heard them say. Now time to move on.
alexwinnco
These so called gays for Trump should have their membership to the lgbt revoked
misterburns35
It’s hilarious that instead of any kind of “gay for Trump” chant, they chant “U.S.A.!” What morons. That’s why there are only a handful of them.
winemaker
I’m in San Francisco, the one time jewel of California that thanks to the progressives, liberals or whatever’s the current term for these anti American thieving and lying slugs running the city now known as the ‘doo doo’ capital of the USA. And seeing joy biden’s a socialist along with his running mate ‘heels up’ camel faced kamala harris , some of us go against the grain. I ask friends both gay and straight the following. Just what have the liberals done for you to improve your lives and make this place a better place to live overall? the resounding answer NOTHING. To the liberals the gay community along with the Latinos and blacks are pawns only to be pandered to whenever an election comes around every 4 years and the other 3 years we get nothing but the ‘finger’ behind our backs and lip service along with the rhetoric the Republicans are homophobic blah, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada along with the blow off. Time for the gay community to get smart and kick these users who have in the long run done nothing for us other than give lip service to keep us appeased and kick these users the curb and think of their future. Not all Republicans are anti gay and it might surprise many in the gay community we’re despised by many liberals and tolerated only for our votes.
David Myers
Such clap-trap! You disparage the very people that brought some semblance of LGBTQ rights to all of us and if you don’t know that or believe it . . . then I suggest you may be either ignorant beyond belief (of our history) or you are a TROLL. These days we have a few choices of which kind of TROLL . . . russian, trumpian, republican, or fascist homophobe. I wonder . . . which are you?
CarterATL
“Not all Republicans are anti gay”
But they are all enablers of anti-gay prejudice, as evidenced by the fact every single Republican in the US Senate voted for the vehemently anti-gay Amy Coney Barrett.
WillParkinson
Thank you, Carter! 100% agreed.
Cam
@winemaker
This is the Republican troll tactic. They have to keep lying OVER AND OVER to claim that places like California or liberal cities are bad, to keep Republican voters in places like KY from seeing how badly Republicans have screwed them.
So let’s see, SF, low crime, rich, not polluted, your house is gaining in value, no meth problem.
California, ran MASSIVE deficits under Republicans, and as soon as Democrats gained a supermajority it began running multi-bilion dollar surpluses.
Meanwhile Kansas completely implemented Republican tax cut strategy, went bankrupt, couldn’t fund it’s schools and had to reverse them. Oklahoma, complete republican control nearly went bankrupt. Crime in cities in Red states is FAR higher than in states like CA or NY.
You trolls are just so sad and so bad at this. If Republicans were ANY good at governing, you wouldn’t have to lie about other parts of the country to hide your failures.
Openminded
Cam, sorry but I had to quit reading your post after your claims of how great SF is doing. You left out the rest of the truth about massive homelessness, people literally s**ting on the sidewalks, gentrification that is driving the homelessness and/or population migration, and IDK where you got the idea METH wasn’t a problem.
Inthelife
In the Black community we have a saying about those who go against the grain: “some people are skin folk, not kin folk!” In other words, just because someone looks Black doesn’t mean they share the communal, historic, cultural and sociological perspective as the group! Black republicans align with those whites who active engage in voter suppression and disenfranchisement. Gay republicans align with those who actively engage in curtailing the civil rights of Gay people! You have this kind of schism in every group! There were even Jews who collaborated with the Nazi’s against their own people! No group is exempt from those outliers, those who go against the grain! What we must do is not feed them our energy by engaging in dialogue in hopes of changing their point of view! They are, indeed, entitled to their own opinions and perspectives even when those points of view and perspectives lay outside the interest of the group! Keep in mind that at the sublevel of consciousness, they know their points of view are vacuous and self serving; and can never be trusted!
wooly101
Liberals haven’t exaclty done much either. California has become the cesspool of the states.
CarterATL
If California is a cesspool, what do you call Mississippi? Because California is a wealthy state with a GDP per capita that ranks 8th in the US. Mississippi is dead last, 50 out of 50.
Cam
Wealthy, lower crime than red states, and a massive economy. Meanwhile Red states are going broke.
Nice try. And it’s cute you switched screenames to try this line again.
alex1435
I don’t get any person in this community that votes for this dreadful human being of a president. It doesn’t make any sense to me one bit.
nirthboy69
My only consolation:
They came for the Brownshirts first.
Bearinphx
They must be paid actors…otherwise, these folks are about as smart as a Jewish person chanting “I LOVE HITLER, GIVE ME AN OVEN NOW!!!
This makes ZERO sense. I’m sure they are paid actors. Nobody marches and chants for their own death.
trojanboy
Tards
ffmikey
Let us just go back to the Viet Nam War in which i served. Gays were openly serving in the Army where I encountered gay enlisted men, carrier NCO’s and officers who were gay. These were not closeted gays but very open about their relationships with their fellow soldiers. Our Company Clerk made Jack on Will & Grace look like a truck driver.
President Clinton pushed for and signed into law “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Discharges of Gays & Lesbians increased substantially after the law was enacted. When President Bush entered office the discharges decreased only to increase under President Obama. The Log Cabin organization filed suite challenging D.A.D.T. in the federal courts and was able to have the law declared unconstitutional. It was not the Stonewall Democratic gay organization that one would think would have filed suite but the Republican organization. With that ruling D.A.D.T. should have been abolished immediately and not another serviceman discharged but that was not the case. The Obama Administration rushed through legislation that repealed D.A.D.T. that enabled all the branches of the military to continue enforcing D.A.D.T. for one year while they supposedly educated those in the military what was expected of them when gays would be allowed to serve. Thats fine and dandy for the homophobic democrats to appear they are on the side of Gays & Lesbians but that was not the case. A single order coming down from the Chief of Staffs for each branch of the military simply stating “No harassment of Gays & Lesbians and no sex in the barracks” would have addressed the immediate issue with education to fallow.
Presidents Trump Executive Order did not ban transgender members from serving, it banned the military from providing drugs and surgery to further the transgender members quest to change their physical appearance. The military does not provide hair transplants, face lifts or other cosmetic procedures and the president considers providing those services to the transgender military community the same. He did not ban those member from seeking services in the private sector. That was their choses.
I have always believed we must look not to what these politicians tell us but instead to what they do no matter what the issue is.
President Trump promised prosperity and the reduction of over regulation. He promised fair trade deals. He promised to make America his number one priority. Until the virus epidemic he was fulfilling those promises. Where my brother lives in Montana fast food restaurants and other service industry jobs have been difficult to fill since so many good middle class job have opened up in the area. Look around where you live and note McDonalds and other fast food restaurants with “Help Wanted ” signs out in front. I never saw that before President Trump was elected.
And now look to places like West Hollywood where our economy has been destroyed due to the actions of Governor Newsom. Is he a friend of the Gay & Lesbian community? Thousands unemployed. Long established businesses closing down permanently. He allowed the bars and restaurants to reopen for about a week and blamed the rise in positivity rates to go up because of it. But at the same time BLM was holding demonstrations with Social Distancing and the absence of wearing of masks not being enforced. i guess being politically correct is more important than the Gay & Lesbian economy.
Wake up, look at what our so called friends are doing to us and what they have done to us in the past. Biden, not Trump supported D.A.D.T. and the Defense of Marriage Act. Which was our friend then, which is our friend now?