I Remember…

When Trump was elected people were calling the CT Transadvocacy Coalition phone just wanting to talk, they were worried and scared about what is going to happen to us. Well their fears it turned out was well founded, but there are some who were happy that Trump won.

Gay men are increasingly voting for anti-LGBTQ right-wingers, says gay cultural historian
"Give [gay men] the chance and they will vote for xenophobia, for racism, and for misogyny," he says.
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By Daniel Villarreal
February 2, 2019

In the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, 82% of LGBTQ voters voted for Democrats, America’s more pro-LGBTQ political party. But in many other Western countries “right-wing and virulently homophobic parties enjoy considerable support among gay voters,” says Samuel Huneke, a gay historian at Stanford University who studies modern European culture.

Huneke looked at voting data from 14 elections in five Western countries — the US, UK, France, Germany and Brazil — and then published a recent article on the troubling phenomenon. It it, Huneke observed:

LGBT voters in other [non-U.S.] countries were less likely to support the conservative (or in some cases far-right) party by an average of only seven percent. And when you look only at gay men, the results are even more striking. In other countries, gay men were, on average, more likely than the general electorate to support the conservative or far-right party.

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“Gay politics in other countries prove that LGBT people — especially gay men — are not inherently progressive voters. Give them the chance and they will vote for xenophobia, for racism, and for misogyny. Democrats (and progressive parties in other countries, for that matter) cannot and must not take the gay vote for granted,” Huneke concludes.

Why do they vote conservative?

What is it that gets them to vote against their human rights?

An article in Quillette calls gays who vote Republican “Fox News Faggot” and it is not just gays but also there are trans people who vote Republican. Some of them saw the light but others are still stanch Republicans.

Of course I have theories on what they vote against their freedom.

First I think many of them are old school Republican in the new age of the party of bigots. They ignore the white supremacists who have taken over the party. They ignore all the anti-LGBTQ+, anti-women, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigrants laws being introduced by the Republicans and instead dream of the by-gone days of smaller government and lower taxes.

Second I think it is in part "white male privilege," conservatives are more male orientated. If you look at Republicans in Congress they are mainly white and male.

Then I think there are those LGBTQ+ Republicans who put money before all else… they follow the doctrine of “I got mine screw everyone else.”