Reports suggest some of Donald Trump‘s cronies have reached out to a group called Deplorable Pride; a group that wasn’t allowed to march in this year’s parade in Charlotte, North Carolina.
On Monday, the group’s cofounder Brian Talbert revealed The White House Office of Political Affairs contacted him personally in a “show of support.”
The Charlotte Observer reports the Deplorable Pride float would’ve come complete with a shudder-inspiring “female impersonator dressed as first lady Melania Trump, surrounded by a handful of other female impersonators wearing blue-sequined ‘Make America Great Again’ evening gowns.'”
According to Talbert, Trump staffers wanted to hear details about Charlotte Pride’s refusal to let the group’s float be included, and they thanked the group for joining a sit-in at a Starbucks branch last weekend where a barista had mocked someone in a Trump tee.
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“I was told to expect a call from the White House, but I still just about fell over when I got it,” Talbert said.
“They asked me to email them everything I could on what happened. I was told: ‘The president is going to want to see this.’
It definitely re-affirmed what I thought about the type of man he is.”
In a statement, Charlotte Pride defends its decision to ban the group, saying it’s in keeping with the organization’s trend of denying participation by “other organizations espousing anti-LGBTQ religious or public policy stances.”
“Charlotte Pride envisions a world in which LGBTQ people are affirmed, respected, and included in the full social and civic life of their local communities, free from fear of any discrimination, rejection, and prejudice.”
https://twitter.com/deplorable_lgbt/status/875792141548740608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.towleroad.com%2F2017%2F06%2Fdeplorable-pride-2%2F
Meanwile, members of the Mecklenburg County Republican Party have voiced support for Deplorable Pride, with the county’s spokesman James Tatro saying, “It’s a shame that a community once known for its inclusiveness is excluding their own based on political views.”
Despite death threats, Talbert says “you are not going to stop hearing from Deplorable Pride.”
“I’ll be honest. I’ve enjoyed exposing the bigoted hypocrisy of the left. We have gone from being oppressed to being the oppressor in less than 50 years.”
On the subject of bigoted hypocrisy, the official White House website hails June as “National Homeownership Month,” “African-American Music Appreciation Month,” “National Caribbean-American Heritage Month,” “National Ocean Month,” and “Great Outdoors Month.” It makes no mention of Pride at all.
h/t: Towleroad
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DCguy
This is just another attempt by the GOP to have a group that can give them cover for anti-lgbt bigotry.
They had Log Cabin, but Log Cabin got exposed as a shill group when they refused to explain who had given them the money to pay for an entire page in the NYTimes attacking Chuck Hagel as being anti-Israel. It wasn’t an lgbt issue, and Log Cabin was just a funnell for right wing Republicans wanting to attack Hagel. They were exposed as nothing more than a shill group.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/30/hagel-log-cabin-republicans-ad
GOProud formed very quickly after Log Cabin became less useful to the GOP. But that group collapsed not long after it was revealed that their entire board was made up of straight people many with anti-lgbt backgrounds and it was just another shill group to give the GOP cover for bigotry and that 75% of the group’s funding came from one donor.
Now there is this group, and it’s funny, if Gays for Trump are so “Gay” why are they never speaking about lgbt issues? Just attacking lgbt groups, and constantly using the Fox News catchall phrase of “The left” combined with heavy doses of playing the victim.
Just another attempt by bigots to create a group they can send onto TV to mug for the camera and lie about how the GOP isn’t bigoted. It didn’t work with the other two groups, not sure why they think it will work with this one.
DCguy
Oh and Mo Bro (Or your other screenames) I’m sorry if you had a whiny post about what victims these guys are and how evil “The Left” is for wanting things like civil rights and all that.
Maybe you can type up a different one, or just call me a name or something. That will make you feel better.
iluzionist54
Deplorable is the fact that “Deplorable Pride” exists.
Mo Bro
Anyone who believes the gay community is “known for its inclusiveness” has obviously never perused Queerty’s comments sections, where anyone but the most liberal-minded are regularly insulted, mocked, and rebuffed.
So . . . nope, not inclusive at all.
It’s an image desired more than practiced.
Kind of like “liberal tolerance.”
Heywood Jablowme
@Mohammed Bro: So you’re saying we should all become Deplorables like you and then we could just be proud of NOT being inclusive, hate everyone we want, and nobody could ever call us hypocritical!
Got it.
DCguy
Hey Mo Bro,
Two things.
1, If you’re going to have multiple screenames make comments, try not to have them do it so close together, it’s too large a coincidence and makes it obvious.
2. Please detail how the GOP is inclusive and the “Gay Community” is not considering that the GOP has, as part of it’s platform, attacking the LGBT community and it’s civil rights.
As I’ve said to you before, the Mormons tried this tactic of “If you don’t allow me to be a bigot, then you’re not open minded” during their Prop 8 debacle and it failed. You trying to claim that the rapist is the victim because the rape victim said how is sad and embarrassing for you.
Mo Bro
@Heywood:
Nope, didn’t say that at all.
Heywood Jablowme
@Mo Bro: So what DO you mean? Yeah yeah, you’re always b!tching about the lack of “liberal tolerance.” But where is the conservative tolerance for gays? The vast majority of conservatives HATE gays, and apparently you’ve never noticed that or you just don’t care? Why do try so-o-o-o hard to suck up to them? You never explain that part. Oh well I’m sure they are very impressed (pffffft).
I should add that I don’t agree here with Cam, I mean DCguy, lol. It’s obvious to me as an ACLU member that the Deplorable gays should be allowed in the parade.
Xzamilloh
Heywood has a point, Mo Bro… as someone who has had that same “tolerance” thrown his way, I get where you’re coming from on that front, but I’m not buying your “Conservatives are better” narrative, because they aren’t. They overwhelmingly vote against LGBT rights, and last campaign saw the most anti-gay platform ever for the GOP. A lot of liberals can be in your face with their intolerance, but just because conservatives are smiling and being respectful while trying to deny us rights does not make them better… it simply makes them polite bigots (I don’t even like using the word “bigot” because of how watered down it has become)
batesmotel
There is no real gay community because there is no inclusiveness. Including all would make it a community.
KaiserVonScheiss
But what about muh “Trump hatez the gayz”?
Kangol
The same Trump who refused to publicly honor or recognize LGBTQ Pride Month?
Texasholdem
When will trump even mention chechnya? He spoke up when Christians were killed in Egypt but he’s silent about gays being killed.
Record Man
You mean the President who promised to appoint SCOTUS judges to reverse the “shocking” marriage equality ruling, appointed extreme homophobes to cabinet positions, and whose party platform endorses conversion therapy?
I wouldn’t say “Trump lovez the gayz.”
Mo Bro
@Record Man:
Trump is on record as being in favor of gay marriage.
The GOP has never listed conversion therapy as a platform.
Please be aware that facts aren’t just whatever fantasies you decide them to be.
DCguy
@Mo Bro said….
Trump is on record as being in favor of gay marriage.
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Here is a perfect example of how the Anti-lgbt trolls lie. And by lying they admit that they know that their point is wrong. In other words, they know Trump is anti-lgbt, and they not only support that, they will lie to pump up Republicans.
Here’s a nice little article about how in favor of gay marriage Trump actually is.
http://gbmnews.com/wp/archives/19208
The relevant Quote: “On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump, the front-running Republican presidential candidate, said he would appoint Supreme Court judges who would overturn last summer’s historic decision making same-sex marriage legal nationwide, during a Fox News Live interview earlier Sunday.””
Mo Bro knows this, and yet lied to hide this fact. That isn’t somebody being delusional about the GOP. It is somebody who knows and supports their bigotry and is on here to mislead people purposely.
batesmotel
It’s not his job to acknowledge Pride month. I never did. I don’t care about it AT ALL.
Kangol
So if this White House is so concerned about gay people, why couldn’t Donald Trump even make an effort, like his most recent predecessor, to acknowledge LGBTQ Pride Month?
Surely he knew it was happening if he cares about gay people even a little. His Secretary of State and his daughter did. From Trump: No proclamations, vocal public support, nothing.
Kieran
It would be a real DISASTER for the gay community if the democrats had to compete with republicans for gay support, money and votes. Gays should always be in the position that they MUST vote democratic. That way, the democrats can take our votes for granted. After all, who else can we vote for, right? Why would any gay want to leave the democrat plantation?
DCguy
So lets see what THIS screename of Mo Bro is getting at.
That somehow it’s an evil plot by the Democrats for the GOP to attack lgbts, try to strip our civil rights, and turn us into second class citizens.
It’s funny that the GOP and right wingers always claim to be for personal responsibility, however, notice how nothing is ever their fault.?
DavidIntl
DCGuy – well, I am certainly not “Mo Bro” but Kieran makes a good point. It has certainly done the African American community no good over the years to be such a reliable Democrat-voting constituency no matter what policies Democrats enacted. Why can’t the LGBT community be politically diverse? As a fundamentally libertarian gay guy, I am always going to be unhappy with half of the policy positions of whoever I vote for in a two-party system, but I would prefer to keep my options open.
Mo Bro
@Kieran:
I’m a bisexual, biracial millennial, and I assure you, the Democrats have tried and failed many times to recruit me.
@DavidIntl:
I don’t think you understand . . . seeing the world through DCguy’s left-tinted glasses, all gays—every last one of us—are hardcore liberals, except one (myself) who trolls this site and posts under multiple names . . . because, in DCguy’s world, no one disagrees with him, so therefore it must be a singular effort by one rogue individual to flood comments boards with opinions that counter his own.
So you see, this is, in fact, what makes you yet another of my screen names. In DCguy’s eyes, anyone who posts a comment right-of-Marx is Mo Bro.
Heywood Jablowme
“It would be a real DISASTER for the gay community if the democrats had to compete with republicans for gay support, money and votes.”
The competition has started to happen a little bit in the Northeast especially in New England. Charlie Baker, the Republican governor of Massachusetts (NOT a Trump fan, though), is the most popular governor in the U.S.
In New England – outside of Maine, & even in Maine a bit – you no longer have to assume that Republicans are gay-hating, drooling morons who think the world is 6,000 years old and that Adam & Eve rode dinosaurs. Unfortunately this is not the case in most of the U.S.!
Mo Bro
@Heywood:
New Englanders are gay-tolerant, but the rest of the country is not?
Another prime example of a progressive thinking he’s better than others.
My, how you libs step in it every time you think you’re being intellectual.
Heywood Jablowme
@Mo Bro: You’re missing the point again. As I wrote, New England REPUBLICANS are generally gay-tolerant nowadays. It took a long time for them to get there, but progress is possible.
And yes, still, Republicans in most of the rest of the country (even in Calif.) generally hate gays and are always passing and proposing anti-gay legislation and frothing at the mouth and fulminating in ridiculous ways about how awful gays are. That is undeniably TRUE and you can’t refute that. And you won’t even try because you know it’s true!
Heywood Jablowme
@ Mo Bro: And again – since your reading comprehension skills seem rather limited – I was agreeing with Kieran that it would indeed be a good thing if the REPUBLICANS competed for gay votes. But generally, in most of the country, they don’t even try to do that. How is that the Democrats’ fault? It’s not.
Mo Bro
@Heywood:
I agree that Republicans don’t deserve gay votes because they do not solicit them. The GOP cannot be surprised that 90% of gays vote Democrat.
Having said that, however, it does not excuse Democrats for taking us for granted and assuming they have us in their pocket. Some of us vote not with our emotions but with a mind toward the future, and that’s an issue not on the Democratic agenda.
Heywood Jablowme
@Mo Bro: Okay, I’m glad we agree at least a little bit.
(it’s not a first, it’s the second time as I recall? – ha)
DCguy
@ DavidIntl said.
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DCGuy – well, I am certainly not “Mo Bro” but Kieran makes a good point. It has certainly done the African American community no good over the years to be such a reliable Democrat-voting constituency no matter what policies Democrats enacted.
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Really? Why don’t you talk to African Americans in Mississippi and Alabama about how much better the GOP is for them.
Lvng1Tor
I actually don’t agree with the ban. While I am completely confused by and in opposition to their political stance, we need to realize that the LGBTQ community is just a microcosm of the world at large. They support our current POTUS…and? Are we so afraid of different political views or so weak in our resolve that we try and bury them like they don’t exist?
However, the oppressed have become the oppressors is funny sh!t…They weren’t oppressed, they were told they couldn’t have a float. They didn’t have their homes, kids, jobs, economic status threatened or taken away. They are in service to the administration that is allowing for that to happen to our community. Amazes me that people think that my right to not be discriminated agaisnt is equal to them thinking taht they are the victims because they can’t discriminate.
DCguy
But by your logic, then nambla should have a float.
They are actively supporting groups of people who want to do us harm. If there was a women’s group advocating rape and child abuse should they be allowed to march in a women’s rights parade?
Lvng1Tor
Yeah…by my logic NAMBLA!?! Man, I normally agree with you but that is not only a stretch it’s fk’n insulting and the stupid kind of argument that the right loves us to have.
Xzamilloh
It’s beyond stupid and insulting, but that’s what you have to deal with if you are a moderate or lean to any other side on here, and it isn’t like that in the real world, just online and in these bubbles. You are absolutely right in everything you said. To equate allowing spaces for opposing ideas to allowing spaces for people who want to boink little kids is the epitome of obtuse tone deaf stupidity
Heywood Jablowme
@DCguy: LOL, you’ve gone off the deep end, Cam.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
You just compared gays celebrating pride to ped0s. You truly are nuts and I’m glad others are beginning to see how nuts you really are
I think the DC probably stands for ‘definitely crazy’ in your name
Mo Bro
@mhoffman:
Actually, I think it stands for “ditzy chick.”
Or “dumb cracker.”
Or “defiantly crass.”
Or . . .
DCguy
@Lvng1Tor said….
Yeah…by my logic NAMBLA!?! Man, I normally agree with you but that is not only a stretch it’s fk’n insulting and the stupid kind of argument that the right loves us to have.
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If what I said was so wrong it should be very easy for you to point out why. You couldn’t do that. You became irrationally angry. This would seem to indicate that you couldn’t argue my point. You stated that it had to do with “Political Difference”. This isn’t about zoning laws or tax rates. This is about a group supporting a politician who has stated that the removal of lgbt civil rights is one of his goals. They support people that seek to harm us, as nambla seeks to harm kids. The comparison is fair.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
You clearly missed Lvng1Tor’s point.
Nambla isn’t asking for a float. Sex with minors is illegal. There isn’t a woman’s group that advocates for rape. Rape is illegal and no such group wants a float in a parade. You’re getting outraged over things that aren’t happening.
Lvng1Tor’s point was that this group was banned from the event because of political views. Not because they advocated for something illegal. You’re comparing having a different political view to illegal acts.
I think you need to take a deep breath and count to 10
Xzamilloh
Or 100
jhon_siders
Well I guess we are just as bad as Trump ?? to not include a group ? I am with the Pink Pistols A gay gun club and we were told in Columbus OH pride I think in 2004 That we were not welcome be cause we were to carry plastic replica fire arms and the organizers even called the police Note that 2 of the members were police officers ! The police did not even get involved because no laws are being broken With out them we would have just been another bunch of gays with a banner I moved away that fall and I heard that the next year the head of the pride committee resigned because she did not want to deal with us again ?? Thought that was funny I ran the Louisville KY chapter (since we have been inactive but soon to get things going again ) and I do not ever bother to apply to be involved in the pride parade because I am sure that the same BS would happen .
Heywood Jablowme
Damn, that’s a depressing story. But yeah, very typical.
Alexis
While I don’t agree or even understand their support for a bigot such as Trump, I think they should have had a float. At least, it would have given an opportunity for people to challenge and really understand their reasoning behind their support. If anything, it would have exposed their blind and somewhat ignorant support to the public, and probably made them think about why they think the way they do. In the end of the day, I don’t think that they would have won any sort of support, but at least it would have exposed their flawed logic or even their own confused sexuality.
Neonegro
That’s all good but the same people would be screaming when gays are prevented from marching in other people’s parades.
Mo Bro
Yup . . . however, they’ll claim their discrimination isn’t discrimination, just “common sense measures taken against hate.”
Xzamilloh
It’s the fact that I don’t want them to have a float in that parade that leads me to the conclusion that they should have been allowed to have their float at that Pride Parade. I’m just saying, there is a backlash that is encompassing even those who are allies. This PC regressive nonsense isn’t making them anti-gay, but it is turning a lot of people off who wish nothing more than to help and understand LGBT issues. This, of course, has nothing to do with that, but highlights how easy it is for the right to accuse us of being as intolerant as we claim they are.
Heywood Jablowme
Personally I’d prefer they be allowed in the parade. That way I can see who they are. I don’t want to accidentally have sex with a Trump voter. Ew!
batesmotel
None of the strong gay Trump supporters the real men would touch you. They can see right through your pansy sensitivity on your first syllable which would make everything go limp.
Heywood Jablowme
@batesmotel: LOL. No, I know from experience they’re not like that at all – Trump supporters are always those “f*ck me daddy!” types. They have daddy issues. And often mommy issues too, like you, Norman Bates.
paul dorian lord fredine
so, i guess according to the white house the only gays worth acknowledging are the ones that support ‘dear leader’. and here he said he was going to be our ‘best friend’. i must have missed the ….except….’. well, he doesn’t want to support me, i’ll support him in kind. nada. zip. zilch. kiss my ass.
baggins435
The ONLY reason this group was contacted was so the PITAPOTUS can say “see, the gays love me.” I can respect a difference of opinion based on understandable principles. But I can’t for the life of me understand how any self respecting LGBT person can support a political party who actively fights any semblance of equality and fair treatment of LGBT people. There’s a lot I don’t agree with about the Democrats, but they aren’t the ones trying to make me a second class, or worse, citizen.
I think DP should have been allowed in the parade if for no other reason than a source of amusement and derision at their naivete’. Deplorable Pride are deluding themselves about that GOP bus ride. Not only will they not be in the front, they won’t even be allowed to stand in back with the Blacks and Hispanics. They will be trotted out for sound bite and photo op before getting turned into a speed bump as they get run over by the Cheeto-in-Chief. They should look up the word “quisling.”
MediaGuy
DCguy no longer thinks things through, he just pledges loyalty to the delusional tin-foil-hat party of slavery and abortion, the Democrats. How does a religious nut kill 49 gay people and DCguy frames it as a gun control issue. Not the real issue about how Islam is literally gunning for gays, but instead, gun control. How do you NOT get the message that Islam is here for you dude? Because you’re not thinking. You’re just a dem loyalist who goose steps his way to the polls every election. We know who you are. Your type is dying off now and we won’t have to deal with your generations insanity too much longer.
@ baggins. You said: “But I can’t for the life of me understand how any self respecting LGBT person can support a political party who actively fights any semblance of equality and fair treatment of LGBT people”. I know it’s all about YOU, all the time, BUT, sometimes the issues, (in this case real, literal life and death issues of Muslims with guns), take precedent over which bathroom you can use. You’re voting for your freakin life now bro, that’s why you need to think outside the box. You don’t get that? A self respecting gay person is going to stand up to religious hatred and fight back. They have come for us, and so far, they’re winning.
Mo Bro
Hear, hear. Well said, friend.
Liberal gays will exclaim how intolerant Americans are of Islam while a Muslim is sawing his head off. It transcends ideology into the realm of genuine delusion.
Heywood Jablowme
@ Mo Bro: Not me! I’m with Bill Maher on that subject. F*ck Islam.
Mo Bro
Glad to hear it, Heywood.
Even the goofy liberals in my family are coming around to the fact that there’s a radical sect of Islam that actively wants to bring down western civilization.
ChrisK
@MediaGirl. Yeah, because your side is known for being so rational. Lol I wish the Democrats “Goose Stepped” like the Rethugs do.
DCguy
LOL!!!!
Um, Media Guy, if you’re trying to pretend not to be another of Mo Bros screenames, you may want to avoid getting defensive over a comment that was directed at one of the OTHER screenames.
But hey, nice try.
As for your other comment, interesting ow foaming at the mouth hysterical you are, naming a rambling list of catch phrases to take the attention away from the simple fact that this group supports politicians that seek to do the lgbt community harm. The fact that you can’t argue against that simple fact but get more and more deranged when pressed to is it’s own evidence. Oh, and having your other screenames come on to agree with you is just adorable. It must be fun for you when you have a dinner party for all 10 of your screenames and only have to prepare a meal for 1.person.
MediaGuy
@ChrisK. I see you took my advice to have Siri spell the words for you before you post them. Good move. Next goal is to write a comment that’s more than one sentence long. I know this is scary and all, but you can do it. Try your best. I’ll be watching.
Stilinski26
You mean they weren’t sent to concentration camps and lined up for electric chair? shocker
Stilinski26
no pun intended lol
DCguy
Trump stated that he would appoint judges to remove lgbt rights. These people support politicians who seek to harm the community. It’s funny how desperate all of Mo Bros screenames are to avoid that simple topic. You may be Log Cabins last member, but I would think you’d be better at Trolling at this point.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
“Trump stated that he would appoint judges to remove lgbt rights”
Wrong. He stated that it should’ve been a state’s rights issue and some could see the reasoning behind that considering states should decide what is best for their state based upon the voice of the voters.
Trump has also stated he would not push for an amendment banning same-sex marriage and after becoming President, he stated that marriage equality is a done deal.
Trump hasn’t removed gay rights, you have all of the same rights you had a year ago. The Supreme Court has not taken away any of your rights, you have the same rights you had before Trump came into office. You’re getting outraged over something that didn’t even happen
You’re living up to your name of “Definitely Crazy” guy
Giancarlo86
I voted for Trump.