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Related: About this forumLog Cabin, dammit, turn in your triangles.
Once a respected part of the LGBTQ+ movement, the Log Cabin Republicans, like large swathes of the GOP, embraced Donald Trump and everything he stood for. The organization has defended Floridas Dont Say Gay law by comparing its opponents to pedophiles, opposed landmark LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination legislation, and has repeatedly been rejected by the Republican Party.
The group has targeted Chasten Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigiegs husband, in an effort to portray him as an effete gadfly. Chasten Buttigieg is a former elementary school teacher and outspoken critic of the Florida law.
The radicalized organization has also compared LGBTQ+ people to child molesters, saying queer teachers are trying to groom and indoctrinate young kids. Earlier this week, the groups San Antonio chapter members joined armed extremists to protest outside a drag show featuring queens from RuPauls Drag Race. The organizing group, This Is Texas Freedom Force, has been labeled an extremist militia group by the FBI.
Linked article started in on Kelly Anne's recent antics on Sean Hannity show, then veered off into Log Cabin's dipshittery for some reason. I've always thought of them as hypocritical but... wow. Just f'n wow.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/kellyanne-conway-condones-attacks-drag-shows/
Skittles
(160,817 posts)were they truly EVER a "respected part of the LGBTQ+ movement"??
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Under the first Bush admin, it was notably an ignored and oft booed contingent in the SF pride parade.
Skittles
(160,817 posts)yes indeed
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)A log cabiner about the same Era justified the Log Cabin bunch as "changing Republican attitudes from the inside". I know I was all like "good luck with that".
Looks like since TFG they've gone full blown traitor status.
Skittles
(160,817 posts)yes, that would fall under: FAIL
How low can some people go?
Behind the Aegis
(54,983 posts)Homosexual Nazis and The Night of the Long Knives
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)But there's very little of Nazi-ism that isn't.
I'm so reiviled in disbelief there exist those who want all that horrific shit revived, aside from the revelation of their numbers revealed under TFG.
I was truly terribly naive, thought they were a miniscule minority until that Charlottesville riot.
Call it west-coast niavete, I guess.
bluedigger
(17,172 posts)vercetti2021
(10,414 posts)They jab a knife in our communities back constantly with their support for the fascists. When will they learn that they never will be accepted? You're not one of the good ones! They will put you into camps with us as well.
2naSalit
(94,223 posts)I watch from outside the community but I always had a feeling that they were disingenuous, maybe infiltrator in later years. I never felt they were serious as representative members of the community in any way.
Crowman2009
(2,893 posts)Who is also a J6 terror suspect.
Pete Ross Junior
(404 posts)Quasi-libertarians.
Basically rich gays who like low taxes. Ideology follows interest.