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Wednesday night in Simi Valley, California, seven of the candidates in the Republican presidential primary met on stage in a Fox Business-hosted debate moderated by Ilia Calderón of UNIVISION and Dana Perino and Stuart Varney of Fox News.
Participating candidates included Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie, Doug Burgum, and Mike Pence.
In advance of the debate, GLAAD sent a letter to moderators Ilia Calderón of UNIVISION and Dana Perino and Stuart Varney of Fox News. The letter encouraged the moderators to comprise pressing LGBTQ issues in the debate, and offered up questions, included below. One of GLAAD’s recommended LGBTQ questions was asked when Calderón said, “Vice President Pence, the Department of Homeland Security warns that violence against Queer people is on the rise and intensifying. According to a recent learn, members of that people are nine times more likely to be victims of violent hate crimes. As President, how would you protect this collective from violent attacks and discrimination?”
DHS reports, “LGBTQI+ individuals face a surge in violence against individuals and community spaces. Federal threat monitoring has shown th
Reality Check: Public Belief on LGBTQ+ Issues Ahead of Second GOP Debate Highlights the Failure of Extremist Attacks
Roundup of Public Opinion on Homosexual Rights:
The vast majority of Americans — 7 in 10 — think that politicians are not informed enough about abortion and gender-affirming care to build fair policies
According to novel polling, released this month by The 19th and SurveyMonkey, Americans would favor that politicians either defend transgender people or not focus on transgender issues at all. Only 17% of Americans, and only 29% of Republicans, utter politicians should focus on restricting gender-affirming care.
Americans Believe the Amount of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation Is Excessive, Agreeing It Is “Political Theater”
Likely voters across all political parties look at GOP efforts to flood state legislatures with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation as political theater. Polling indicates that 64% of all likely voters, including 72% of Democrats, 65% of Independents, and 55% of Republicans believe that there is “too much legislation” aimed at “limiting the rights of transgender and gay people in America” (Data For Progress survey of 1,220 likely voters, 3/24-26, 2023). This qu
It's a strange second to be one of the roughly 25 percent of LGBT Americans who lean Republican. Liberal media and Democratic politicians are making apocalyptic pronouncements about the supposed fascist dystopia that awaits America under a potential second legal title for Donald Trump, like the Biden campaign tweeting images from The Handmaid's Tale. Yet at the same moment that all this hysteria is going on, the Republican Party's latest platform includes a monumental win for same-sex attracted rights.
For years, a key goal of gay Republicans and their allies has been the removal of the GOP's anti-gay-marriage plank from its official platform. While Trump made history as the first president to take office accepting gay marriage, the Republican platform he formally ran on in 2016 explicitly endorsed "traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman" and specifically denounced the Supreme Court cases enshrining gay marriage as the commandment of the ground. And in 2020, Republicans essentially recycled the 2016 platform and ran on it again, rather than produce a new one, citing the pandemic's disruptions.
In the new 2024 platform Republicans just released, this language is nowhere to
On Wednesday, November 8, in Miami, five candidates in the 2024 Republican presidential primary met on stage for their third debate moderated by Lester Holt (NBC’s Nightly News), Kristen Welker (Meet the Press), and conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt (The Hugh Hewitt Show).
Participating candidates included (pictured above, from left) Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tim Scott.
In advance of the debate, GLAAD and Equality Florida Action, Inc., the statewide civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, trans person, and queer (LGBTQ) community, sent a letter to moderators encouraging the inclusion of pressing LGBTQ issues in the debate. The letter outlined specific issues and questions for candidates, though none of the questions were included in the debate.
The only reference to LGBTQ people or issues came in the closing remarks when Tim Scott said, “If God made you a bloke, you play sports against men,” an attempt to misgender transgender girls and adult women athletes.
The previous two GOP primary debates were also marked by misgendering of gender nonconforming youth, both prompted a
Here's where the 2024 presidential candidates stand on Queer issues
LGBTQ+ issues have, at times, been a flashpoint in the 2024 election.
Many Republicans have campaigned on restricting gender-affirming care, banning classroom instruction of sexual orientation and gender culture and speaking out against transgender girls playing in women's sports.
Democrats have expressed more vocal support for LGBTQ+ issues.
Here's a terse look at where the major candidates stand on the issue.
Kamala Harris
Harris has long been an outspoken advocate for same-sex marriage, officiating some of the nation's first same-sex marriage ceremonies as district attorney in San Francisco. As vice president, she supported the Respect for Marriage Act, a landmark piece of bipartisan legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages.
She's also expressed back for the Equality Execute, a bill that would protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination. The legislation would expand federal civil rights law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in areas such as public facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing,