Yet, those tactics haven’t made the GOP anathema to all LGBTQ voters. “We gay Republicans tend to be entrepreneurs and homeowners,” New Orleans attorney John Rawls said about his comrades in 1988. Yet even as foot soldiers for the Republican Party, they enjoyed little welcome and were almost never courted by the national party. On the presidential campaign trail in 2015 and 2016, Trump made history by directly appealing to LGBTQ voters. LGBTQ voters understood this reality, giving Trump only 14 percent of their vote, the lowest figure for a Republican presidential candidate since 1992.

Source: Washington Post September 14, 2020 10:27 UTC