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Gay Republican candidate melts down when he figured out that his party is homophobic (www.lgbtqnation.com)

submitted 10 months ago by SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Archuleta himself, though, has a history of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. He previously blamed LGBTQ+ individuals for the Club Q shooting and said that queer people are “groomers” – or child sex abusers – a negative stereotype that has been used to justify hatred and discrimination.

Bruh.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like some deeply, deeply internalized self-hatred going on there.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not necessarily? The dude is gay, LGBT+ and queer covers a lot more than gay. Maybe he just hates the other ones.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which part of the lgbt community are groomers?

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

There's weirdly a lot of fractures within the LGBTQ+ community, there's a joke that the letters are "in order of preference" and quite a lot of the gay community doesn't recognise trans people, or thinks Bi folks are just gay but won't admit it and things like that.

An ex of mine was bi and I got exposed to a lot of this shit because of the amount of shit she got from some of her lesbian friends over dating a man. It really shocked me because it's completely against your own interests to become the very thing that's opressed you and your kin, yet here we are - gay republicans.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Not a bad take. Identity is definitely a spectrum of sorts. We all have limits to our acceptance level.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Something to think about is that there are men who see a benefit to gayness being something you can be social ostracized for, because it enables them to have gay sex freely with the knowledge that if there partners ever tell anyone about it they'll suffer repercussions.

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds deranged. If it was NOT socially ostracized they would NOT need to rely on the partner being ostracized.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I know a hard republican pedophile that used their rhetoric around trans people to justify to their victims that people calling him out are just bigots