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What Will the Log Cabin Republicans Say About the Second Trump Administration?
I can hardly wait to find out. Maybe it will even find a way to benefit a gay person somewhere
The Log Cabin Republicans have been around since the 1970s. According to the mission statement on their website today, they are “an inclusive community that supports LGBT issues and conservative values through advocacy, engagement, and thought leadership.”
I’ve been aware of them since I was in high school because one boy in my gay/straight alliance said he identified as a Republican and had joined Log Cabin. (Surely unrelatedly, though I mention it in case it means anything to you, years later that boy was featured on America’s Most Wanted and is now serving a life sentence.)
And so every once in a while I remember that Log Cabin exists and I wonder what it thinks about— well— ::waving my hands at everything but especially the queer/trans part of everything::
I don’t mean to be coy. Quite seriously, I don’t know how any queer/trans person right now can function as a Republican. I understand that a driving factor behind MAGA is racism, and that racist LGBTQ people may simply lean into their racism, and that’s that. I don’t know how they make sense of this from a queer perspective —…
