Get ready for the shocker of the century. Gay Republicans in 2020 have a few issues to sort through.
A new Williams Institute study found that right-wing gays are more likely to wish they were straight. Perhaps it’s because they choose to support a system that actively seeks to oppress them — just a thought.
The UCLA-based institute combed through data from the Generations Study, which sampled LGB folks and found that Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats to wish deep down that they were “completely heterosexual.” And they’re just as likely to interpret their sexual orientation as a “personal shortcoming.”
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“There is a common belief that LGBT identity and Republican affiliation are incompatible,” Ilan H. Meyer, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute and lead author of the study, said via a statement. “Although they represent a small minority, some LGB people are affiliated as Republicans. However, it is striking to find how much they differ from sexual minority Democrats in terms of their connections with LGBT communities.”
Among the study’s participants, researchers say 41% of LGB Republicans wished they could be straight, while only 17% of LGB Democrats felt similarly. 38% of GOP LGB also said they see their sexuality as a character flaw, with 16% of LGB Democrats saying the same.
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Unsurprisingly, LGB Republicans are also much less likely to feel like they’re part of the LGBTQ community, or to identify with any of the problems facing the community at large.
Gay GOP group the Log Cabin Republicans has been especially scrutinized this year by relentlessly trying to sell Donald Trump as the most pro-gay president ever.
In reality, Trump has spent the past three and a half years chipping away at LGBTQ equality and appointing antigay judges, he’s embraced some of the most homophobic leaders in the world, including Vladimir Putin and Jair Bolsonaro, and he spoke out against same-sex marriage while on the campaign trail in 2016.
Donald’s lesbian niece, Mary Trump, tells a much different story about her uncle’s attitudes towards LGBTQ people, saying he’s “uncomfortable” around trans and gay people.
Related: Weird video by self-hating gay Republicans claims Donald Trump is the “most pro-gay” president ever
She called the notion that Donald Trump believes gay people love him to be “absurd.”
“What’s worse [is] that on some level, he’s actually convinced himself that that is true,” she said. “Anyone who takes that seriously should be discounted out of hand.”
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xiphoid76
Interesting article. It feels as if the authors were trying to prove their hypothesis at times. I have always been a Democrat and still identity as one (maybe), but voted republican this time as I feel as if the Democrats have abandoned me. I am strongly pro law enforcement and living in a city besieged by rioting and looting with chants of defund the police coming from the Democrats have made me switch for this election. Safety is my number one reason for voting Republican this election. I don’t think self loathing has anything to do with it – I like myself but feel like the Democrats don’t like me anymore or share the same values.
Cam
Troll tactic number one. Claim “I am a democrat” before saying something anti-Democrat.
Claim “I am Trans” before saying something anti-trans.
Claim “I am a lesbian” before saying something anti-lesbian/anti-woman.
You aren’t fooling anybody and your act is tried. Also, the way you tried to deflect from the topic for your anti-Democrat screed was like 2nd grade troll level. Please send some smarter trolls.
SnakeyJ
Fully agree. I don’t hate being gay, I just don’t trust what the democrats are up to.
Cam
@SnakeyJ
Awwwww, “Snakey”, you tried to pull the “Trump is so much better for LGBTQs than Biden” line on another thread. If you’re going to switch screenames and pull this, at least make us have to work to expose you.
SnakeyJ
@Cam: I am not a troll and have never used a different name. You find it so difficult to believe a gay man does not love the democratic party?
Cam
@SnakeyJ
You’ve been promoting anti-LGBTQ bigots. But YEEEEAAHHHHHHH ,you aren’t a troll.
Kangol2
I am not going to label you a troll, @Xiphoid, but I will say that many of the worst periods of social unrest in my lifetime have come during Republican presidencies: Reagan, especially in the mid to late 1980s, W Bush, especially after 9/11, during the Iraq War, and again in 2007-8 as the country was experiencing a financial meltdown, and now under Don the Con.
The common denominator beyond having Republicans in office is that these conservative administrations push economically and socially divisive policies, and weaponize them for political purposes. This current Con administration is the worst of the three. The other common denominator between the three (especially HW Bush more than Reagan) is that the national economy fails to grow and even contracts under their watch, with disastrous results for the people at the bottom of the economic and social ladder. It has been shown by more than one economist or economic bureau that the economy and jobs grow far more under Democrats than Republicans, and this has not changed. And I say this as someone who has strong issues with the Democratic Party, which drifts further to the right with each passing decade!
But this president and the GOP continue to stoke social, political and economic turmoil, because in truth, it is the only way he thinks he can win. He lost the 2016 election by 2.8 million popular votes, he has never reached out to a majority of Americans, he has hatefully smeared his opponents (even bringing several foreign countries into the mix to aid him), and he continues to lie with abandon. I get that you are pro-law enforcement, but this lawless, disordered Presidency is the exact opposite of the very principle you claim to adhere to.
James
OH PLEASE, ALL YOU THINK ABOUT IS YOURSELF. GO CRY ON AMEY CONEY BARRETT’S SHOULDER. I AM SURE THAT HOMOPHOBIC MONSTER WILL APPRECIATE YOUR MISERY.
Thad
Wait a moment. This current civil unrest is happening under a Republican presidency.
You want four more years of it?
Joshooeerr
Note how Xiphoid and SnakeyJ fail to produce any evidence to support their anti-Democrat stance. It’s just a “feeling”. Unsubstantiated views are worth nothing, other than to identify those who espouse them as either vacuous or, in this case, phoney.
barryaksarben
From one of Grennells old boyfriends we know he cries after sex everytime because he wants to be straight and the blue fairy wont grant his wish because the blue fairy is happy to be a fairy unlike Grennell
zealot
So, “Democrats don’t like me anymore or share my same values”. Seriously?! Which party in power do you think caused all this rioting? People can only take so much injustice and repression before they feel that the only way to be heard is to fight back. Your world view is so illogical and skewed that I hardly know where to begin. So I’ll just say this. With the current slate of judges appointed by this president and his lackies, there will continue to be riots and unrest because the injustice and repression are just getting warmed up. An unrestrained Republican Party will remove all our gains and roll them back because they want us hidden…seen and not heard. People like you make me sick. You helped usher in this era of neo-Facism by trading away all our personal liberties. That’s not what a Democracy is for. If you want safety, MOVE TO RUSSIA, and join your favorite president there while you’re at it.
OneMoreVoice
My issue with Democrats is wondering if they even have values. What seems to binds Democrats together is shared contempt and mistrust for all authority. OK. Somebody has to represent the other half. Still, the DNC would do themselves a favor if they showed a little more maturity and discipline and a lot less panic.
Den
“My issue with Democrats is wondering if they even have values.”
Clearly you have not been paying attention to anything…at all.
1. The Democratic party has a party platform (which the republican party could not even manage to come up with this year) that outlines exactly what their values and plans are.
2. All the things the original poster is whining about, and you are supporting are the outcomes of 4 years of incompetent and corrupt Republican administration. What kind of stupidity attributes them to the democratic party and assumes they will continue!?
You are either lying out of inherent cynicism or mistakenly assuming readers here are duller than you appear to be!
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@xiphoid76…….Let me ask you this: in your lifetime do you remember when reporters who represent the left and right side of the media asked a sitting president if he was going to leave peacefully? In your lifetime do you recall when nation wide the national guard was mobilized the day before the elections because of pending violence? Do you remember an election year that gun stores across the entire nation, including national chain stores were sold out of pistols, rifles and ammunition months before the election and the suppliers of those guns having told all gun stores across the country that there is going to be a shortage of guns and ammo well into next year? Do you remember a time that the things done by one political party got so poisonous it included ordering the post office to have ONE drop off box for millions of people in counties across Texas? Do you remember a time when one hundred million people voted before election day? Do you remember a time when people were this afraid because of a sitting president and what is going to happen on election night or the day after?
If you do educate me on when it happened because I sure don’t remember days like that. I can not stand the very mentioning of their name but for the past two days I have been closely monitoring Fox News and its clear not even they are optimistic nor supportive of a Trump victory. You know things are bad when Fox News anchors grill Giulliani to the point he walks out of the interview. And it was on Fox News mind you. You couldn’t see what he (Trump) has been saying all along (that there is going to be trouble if I don’t win)? The GOP Governor in Ky. lost last years election so he released murderers, drug dealers…etc back into society as retaliation for losing the election. Guess what Trump is going to do before he leaves office.
mrrasheed
Sounds like you were a democrat until you embraced your inner white supremacist. Just call a thing a thing. I was fine being a democrat until Black Lives Matter gained some traction. I bet you don’t even know that the Stonewall Riots were about police harassment and brutality. The police have come for the gays the same way they come for the ethnic minorities. The difference is brown skin is easier to spot than a gay white man in normal clothing. You are scum and clearly racist. You support law enforcement and have zero opinion on the murder of black people by cops. Thanks for the PSA that your trash.
Cam
@OneMoreVoice
Awwww, switched screenames again to attack Democrats. How sweet.
Cam
So in other words, all of us have been right for years.
Observant
Roy-publi-Cohns loathe themselves?
Who knew?
Donston
We all know Biden winning is not going to equate to the police being disbanded. And him losing will likely just equate to some more riots. I am really gonna need white people and non-Americans to stfu when it comes to racial issues and actually listen to folks. Too many of y’all come off like simple-minded asshats who can’t really see anything beyond your vantage point and who are obsessed with the status quo.
In my experience “gay Republicans” are less likely to care about issues that don’t directly connect to them aka race, poverty, healthcare, etc. The self-hating thing is probably more prominent as well. However, internalized homophobia, queer inferiority complexes, masculine pressures, hetero envy, etc. are almost standard in the “queer community”. They cross every political alliance. They’re so rampant and exist in so many ways that I don’t really think a lot of folks realize they’re there. While many of these “out and proud” people contend with some of this stuff to varying degrees. The results of the “study” is just common sense, though they’re probably deeply biased.
People have got to realize that being “gay” or whatever doesn’t mean all that much. There is a ton of variance among “queers” when it comes to race, class, priorities, politics, ethics, lifestyle, gender, sexuality, orientation, mental health, empathy, understanding sexuality, gender, the romantic, sexual, emotional, affirmation spectrum. There is so much that divide us. So, this idea of “community” is proving less and less a thing.
Polaro
While I agree with most of what you say, I bristle at being told to shut up. We need discussion, not a pompous lecture.
Donston
I’m pretty much done with conversation. I’m spent countless hours conversing with supposed “Liberal” white people on race relations, only to pretty much hear back “I don’t care”. At this point, I’m not willing to engage. If they want the info they can search for it. I really don’t care about any of their opinions on the subject matter.
Den
“In my experience “gay Republicans” are less likely to care about issues that don’t directly connect to them aka race, poverty, healthcare, etc. The self-hating thing is probably more prominent as well. However, internalized homophobia, queer inferiority complexes, masculine pressures, hetero envy, etc. are almost standard in the “queer community”. They cross every political alliance.”
Wow!! I didn’t realize your opinion and imagination were more authoritative than an empirical study!!
Oh wait…they’re not. They are simply opinion based on essentially nothing.
Donston
Den, sorry if my assertions discomfort you.
LumpyPillows
Probably best, with that attitude, not to talk to white people then. Your unconscious bias is clear, and you’re probably not very persuasive because of it. Do you have grounds to be angry? Very probably.
Donston
My husband is white. Almost half of my friends are white. Both in real life and on the internet I am tired of random dumb comments, micro-aggressions and white people think they can teach everyone else about race relations. I’m done educating and done trying to be “persuasive”. Some people just need to learn to stfu.
renzinthewoods
Seriously!?! When can we get past some of this SYSTEMIC homophobia? Can you even imagine an “Institute” conducting a survey of Black Americans to see if Republican blacks wished they were totally white at a higher percentage than Democratic blacks do? No? Exactly! Because it would be patently offensive. Ditto for Republican Jews who secretly wish they were Christian. This kind of thinking about sexuality must stop. The Study perpetuates a far more damaging idea than Republican queers ever could.
James
HA HA HA HA HA. WHAT’S THE MATTER DEAR, YOU VOTED FOR TRUMP AND CAN’T STAND TO BE CALLED ON YOUR OWN INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA.
renzinthewoods
James…put on your thinking cap, dear. I’ve been aware of my sexuality since Fifth Grade, took my h.s. sweetheart to the Prom in 1981. Was the first Navy Midshipman to be kicked out of the NROTC program in 1986. I have no internalized homophobia. I am offended that it’s still considered appropriate science to ask queer people if they wish they were straight. Imagine a study of blacks that ask them if they wish they were white. Because, of course, ALL minorities secretly wish they were really a member of the privileged majority. The very idea is offensive. No doubt there are still far too many self haters out there. I’m not denying that. Vote for Trump!?! Dear God, man! Are you MAD?
OneMoreVoice
Lots of offensive to go around. The root of it is our condition. There is nothing wrong in asking if we realize that.
Cam
In other words, it exposes their self hating bias, so you want to bury the study.
Josh447
Snorrrrzzzzz…..
James
GO BACK TO BED. NOBODY FORCED YOU TO READ ANYTHING.
voyy
I voted for Biden not because I like Biden but because I Hate Trump and the horrible thing hes done to America to keep himself out of jail. Hes a Fascist and USA has too many fascists running companies. The wealthy only put people down this country needs to retool.
KyleMichelSullivan
I totally agree.
LumpyPillows
Biden is actually the perfect man at this time for this job.
James
WE ALL KNOW THE LOG CABIN TROLLS ARE SELF HATING NUT JOBS. WHEN YOU ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO ENDORSE BETSY DE VOS, WHO DONATED MILLIONS TO THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE, ON YOUR MAIN WEBSITE, THEN YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A SICK SELF SERVING LOSER. I HATE THE LOG CABIN CLUB, NOTHING BUT NAZI TRASH LOSERS. FUK THEM.
Polaro
Gay incels are pathetic.
OneMoreVoice
Not hated of self. It’s love of America.
Den
@OneMoreVoice
“Not hated of self. It’s love of America.”
OK, I’ll bite.
Using actual intelligence and logic, explain how :
1. supporting a woman dedicated to the destruction of public education, one of the strengths of the US recognized and copied around the world indicated “Love of America”.
2. supporting those who aim to remove your access to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness indicates “live of America”.
3. continued beggoing to be recognized by a political party who has nothing but contempt for your organization and your nature as a human being indicates “love of America”.
The adults in the room will wait…
LumpyPillows
@OneMoreVoice You mean love of white, Protestant, male fictional America…and really, its not love because your kind do not understand the meaning of true love.
Cam
@OneMoreVoice
When you switch screenames, it’s funny how you suddenly post the same language, and multiple defenses without changing up anything.
Try again Troll.
OneMoreVoice
Cam and James, if you want to continue our discussion you will refrain from further accusations about multiple accounts. This is my only account on queerty, created specifically to respond to this post. I’m not typically active on gay media sites as I don’t share the values expressed.
A bit about myself: I’m male, 38, a professional, and I served in the military. I’m a Christian and was raised in the faith. Although I’m no longer affiliated with the church I grew up in, I still appreciate its moral teachings regarding personal responsibility. I’m also homosexual. While I use the term gay sometimes I don’t care for it because it carries political connotations not applicable to me. I have always regarded my homosexuality as an accident of birth, a medical rather than a moral issue. It’s public expression, however, has moral implications. I’m pretty certain you don’t want to hear my life story but you said you wanted to know where I’m coming from. So there it is.
There are communities I value and those I don’t. The gay community is one I don’t. It’s selfish, provocative, and I could add a few adjectives that wouldn’t pass the mods. Enough said. I don’t value multiculturalism and regard it as toxic. America must be one nation to survive long term. While our founding fathers needed to be flexible at our nation’s birth, we’ve matured. Multiculturalism results in internal conflict and national disloyalty. America’s enemies know this and do not allow these conditions to grow in their nations. Enough said.
So where does that leave me as a gay man who believes, like many fellow Conservatives, gay and otherwise, that our presence as lgbt individuals is harming the country we love? There is no shame in putting the health of one’s country above oneself. That is the only gay pride I respect. Whatever the GOP as a party and the now Conservative SCOTUS do to detract from gay rights and reduce the prominence of gay culture I believe is warranted. If said actions happen to impact me personally that’s an outcome I’m willing to accept.
Cam
@OneMoreVoice
Nice deflection attempt. But the fact remains. You are the same right wing troll account that always comes in here to defend bigots and attack the LGBTQ community.
The saddest part is that you actually think you’re fooling anybody.
OneMoreVoice
Cam, now who’s deflecting? Seems to me you don’t want to deal with who you are and how others view your influence. Your irritation suggests that somewhere underneath all the puffy self-esteem training and entitlement there lies a seed of conscience. My advice: let it grow. See yourself as part of a greater America and recognize your responsibilities to her. Put aside the nonsense and let your pride be from contribution rather than identity.
BlueStateMan
I am always amazed as to why gays and lesbians will vote against their own best interests. The Republican party hates you. Why is that so hard to understand? They will vote against your interests 100% of the time. Gay republicans are just too stupid to realize they are being used by people who wish they were wiped from the face of the earth. You think Trump likes you? Why don’t you show him your dick and see if he will suck it? You have certainly sucked his enough.
OneMoreVoice
We vote against the lgbt community’s interests, not our own interests. Our interests are whatever we decide they are. I love the decency, values, faith and overall good taste of the community where I grew up. I don’t want it to accept the ugliness and corruption that popular gay culture brings. Being gay don’t mean I have to like what we’re doing to America.
Den
Three words for you “one voice:
LEARN TO THINK.
It is pretty darn clear you don’t really know how.
Perhaps if Trump were to get a second term and re-criminalize homosexuality, as his supporters hope, perhaps if his justices get the chance to strip marriage rights (and the “Christian” right already has a set of cases to bring to the SCOTUS for just that purpose) you might wake up. Perhaps when your fine neighbors once again to believe they have the right to tie your gay brothers and sisters to the bumper of their trucks and drag them till they are mutilated and dead you will wake up. Perhaps when something as “harmless” as your neighbors asking you not to hold hands or kiss your spouse because “children might see” you will wake up.
But some how I doubt it. The dullness and denial is strong in you.
Cam
@OneMoreVoice
Translation: You’re a bigoted Trump troll, using multiple screenames and pretending to be LGBTQ so you can come in here and promote bigots who want to harm the community.
ShiningSex
DUH!!! WE KNOW THEY ARE
Prowelsh56
I have no time or inclination to sit and down and listen to their justifications for standing behind an administration that seeks to ” cancel” LGBTQ equality and Rights. BUT who then troll the community and bars looking to hook up. No time for that at all. I definitely am all in favor of outing those that stand behind their own hatred and yet, seek to be a part of the community that this administration wants to destroy.
amanwithanedge
“Log Cabin Republicans shunned by their own party, can’t even get a booth at upcoming convention”
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? SO RIDICULOUS.
Rock-N-RollHS
So where does Ms Caitlin Jenner fit in that LGB nomenclature. I also have a vehement Trans evangelical in my building in NYC’s West Village and she is all for Trump. Being “T” like being “black” doesn’t make you either automatically innocent or an inmate victim.
Den
Every group has its stupid people, even gay, lesbian and bi folks.
Jenner and your Trans friend are simply not too swift. But in her favor, Jenner repudiated her support for Trump in 2019, though she remains (as a wealthy person) a Republican.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Times like this make me wonder if the Trans police headed by Malloy and company look back and regret supporting Bruce Jenner’s claim that he is a transwoman who is going to fight for trans people along with their condemnation of Rupaul. It serves them right and I give till Friday at the latest he goes back to being Bruce Jenner. There is nothing left to pump from his standout PERFORMANCE and he knows it.
Walker
I’m so sick and tired of the narrative that right-wing gays are victims of “self loathing.” I’ve known these people. They are not–they love themselves more than any other group I’ve interacted with. It’s everyone else they loathe. I have never met a gay republican who wasn’t absolutely positive that they will be shielded from what other gays go through because they have money, status, and connections. And they’re right.
Seriously, screw these people.
OneMoreVoice
Walker, don’t ask us to apologize for achievement and success. What money, status and “connections” (whatever that means) I got, I earned. No silver spoon crap. Same goes for most other gay republicans I know. It’s called investing in yourself. It’s called working summer and winter jobs and saving your money for tuition. It’s called studying hard and getting the grades. It’s called interviewing well, landing the job and putting in the extra time to get noticed. It’s called saving your money to invest. And it’s called smoozing effectively with people so egoistical and pretentious they make you sick to get the tips to get ahead. If we are shielded it’s because we learned how to function well. Trying learning from us rather than criticizing.
cms51212
LOVE the identity politics game – it really is disgusting, thanks for posting this crap Queerty.
OneMoreVoice
Queerty, stop the “your comment is awaiting moderation” nonsense. Let the discussion happen. You either want a fair exchange or you don’t. None of the ideas I’ve expressed are vulgar or out of mainstream discussion. They are just not in agreement with the attitude of your site. This article is about the political differences of opinion within the lgbt population. The onus is on you to ensure we can explain these differences.
SnakeyJ
They did that to me as well… I was giving a point by point breakdown against Michael Musto’s assertions in another article. It’s still pending when I didn’t write anything disrespectful and in many instances provided quotes and facts.