Scenes from a gay club in Manchester, UK played out like an episode of The Twilight Zone on Twitter as videos of anti-LGBTQ politician Liz Truss partying it up started making the rounds.
Tuesday night’s crowd at Cruz 101 looked a little different than usual. The venue played host to the LGBT+ Conservatives Conference Closing Party, welcoming Truss as a special guest.
Truss has served as Foreign Secretary since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019. During her time in office, she has argued that trans people must be given invasive “medical checks” in order to be legally recognized. She insists that “only women have a cervix.”
Truss has heavily cut funding to women and equalities aid, and pressured the government to withdraw from the Stonewall Diversity Champions program, an organization that works to promote LGBTQ acceptance.
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As you can imagine, people weren’t thrilled to see her knocking back Smirnoff Ice surrounded by dancing gays while Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best” coursed through the sound system.
Here she is! The Foreign Secretary @trussliz has arrived 🌳🍺 – LRB pic.twitter.com/gakf0emPjv
— LGBT+ Conservatives (@LGBTCons) October 5, 2021
“Satire at its greatest,” one commented observed.
… and that goes for some of you aforementioned gays out last night. Your world would be diminished without the words and deeds of trans and gender-non conforming people. You owe them a share of your rights, the music you love and the night life scene you enjoy.
— Cheddar Gorgeous (@CheddarGawjus) October 6, 2021
“Dear Liz Truss, prancing round to Whitney Houston surrounded by gay men is not the same thing as supporting trans rights,” tweeted Manchester drag queen Cheddar Gorgeous. “If you can’t be there when the most vulnerable members of our community need you to speak out you shouldn’t come to the after party.
“And that goes for some of you aforementioned gays out last night.
“Your world would be diminished without the words and deeds of trans and gender-non conforming people. You owe them a share of your rights, the music you love and the night life scene you enjoy.”
Here’s what people are saying:
Amazing what £183m in cuts to women and equalities aid gets you I guess.
— Anna Kalashnikova (@UkrainianAK) October 6, 2021
Deeply grim
— Wes trick or Tweeting (@vicmackieqc) October 5, 2021
Liz Truss at The Conservative LGB+ party last night singing "I need a hero" while drinking a smirnoff ice. pic.twitter.com/c3pCDQ3nVA
— Jonny (@Jonny_Nowak33) October 6, 2021
Chris2016
I’m thankful to be alive at a time when THIS is what counts as “deeply lgbt”. Long gone are the Nazi-like tirades and press releases anti-LGBT people and organizations used to make about us. The useage of “lgbtq” when the story mostly relates to her acknowledgment of reality: Women and trans men can have cervix’s – Men cannot. Remove the ‘lgbtq’ from the headline and replace it with ‘trans’, and a woman dancing in a GAY club becomes even more of a non-story.
watsonsj2004
I am not one to wish ill on someone; however, if Truss ever receives a hysterectomy, she will no longer qualify as a “woman” based on her own definition. Also, cis females post-hysterectomy would no longer be women, either.
waldorf
Liz Truss is not anti gay, stating that only women have a cervix is a biological fact, I’m a man and last time I checked I don’t have a cervix.
Mr. Stadnick
I’ll bet you are a big c**( though
jayceecook
Why are people mad? It was literally “the LGBT+ Conservatives Conference Closing Party”. Now if she was caught doing this just on a regular night out I could see the outrage. However she was among her “people”. If anything those folks up in arms about her being there should shift their attention to the fact that something called “the LGBT+ Conservatives Conference” even exists and has members.
David
Yes, it’s a truly nauseating idea that all these self loathing people continue to identify themselves with a community of people that they all actually hate. Like Ben Carson or other non-white republicans…what the hell are they thinking? The conservative lgbtq+ people’s politics are loathsome and hateful. Sure let’s support a party that would literally nail us to fences. If they’re so republican they should get the “cure” or have the gay prayed away. Like Sinema and Manchin these are traitors to their tribe.