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Gay Bar Apologizes After Owner Attends Trump Rally
The bar distanced itself from the co-owner in its apology.
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By Jeff Taylor
February 13, 2019

A gay bar in El Paso, Texas has apologized after one of its owners attended a Trump rally and posted photos of himself to social media.

Johnny Alcantar, one of five owners of The Old Plantation, known as The OP Nightclub, posted a photo of himself on Instagram with a Trump banner, and also posted video to his Insta story, according to KTSM.

DJ and drag queen Puta Kahlo, who posted a screenshot of Alcantar’s Instagram post, reported being “disgusted.”

“Y’all, straight people are the first to try to profit off of our community and our art but won’t hesitate to support a man who has called trans people burdens, hasn’t done shit for community but try to erase us, degraded women, and perpetuated racist and xenophobic rhetoric,” Kahlo wrote.

How did the bar owners respond to Kahlo posts?

“To all of our fellow patrons, and LGBT members. We apologize for any confusion going through your heads at this time,” a Facebook post signed by Mark Adkins, CEO of The OP Nightclub. “We want to make one thing as clear as crystal: The Old Plantation Nightclub does NOT support Trumps views or opinions ESPECIALLY towards our LGBT community. The OP was built by and built for the LGBT community and everyone should already know that.”

The post continued, saying it was Kahlo’s right to “speak up on how you feel towards the subject, but before you try to ’End another bars [sic] reputation’ like you said and state that The OP as a company supports trump [sic] because of 1 individual who is only a minor shareholder that owns a small fraction of the company…is just not right.”

“Would you bash Apple because a shareholder attended a rally? Or because Steve Jobs attended it?”

They are right about Apple with millions of shareholders but the bar only has 5 owners, so in other words 20% of the owners support Trump.
Kahlo said,

Kahlo has responded, calling it “some passive aggressive shit” and “another ass-backwards apology to the community.”

“Listen here, I’m fucking TIRED of Trump supporters picking and choosing what policies and things he’s said to stand behind. If you voted for him, you might have voted because you believe ’he’s a good business man’ or whatever else y’all choose to defend Trump’s rhetoric. If you voted for him, you’ve ALSO voted against the rights of immigrants, trans people, and women…and if you’re willing to turn a blind eye to those groups because of his economic plans for the nation then that makes you a SHIT ally. So no, I’m not taking the post down and I’m standing my ground because your attempts at intimidation just won’t work when it comes to me. I don’t care if he owns 10%, 50% or 70% – he doesn’t deserve a penny from gay pockets for idly standing by and supporting that man. And I really couldn’t care less.”

I say Amen to that.

I hear so many LGBTQ Trump supporters say… “Well I voted for him because I want smaller government” or “the Republicans are fiscally conservative” (and that is after the Republicans rack up the largest deficit in the history of our country).

Well my dears, it doesn’t work that way you voted for a racist, xenophobe, misogynistic, Islamophobe, homophobe, and transphobe and you bought the entire package you can't separate the parts from the individual. As Kahlo said, “If you voted for him, you’ve ALSO voted against the rights of immigrants, trans people, and women…”