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Reality Check: VP Nominees Tim Walz and JD Vance Bring Diverging Commitments to Equality to the Debate Stage
by Cullen Peele •
Tim Walz has been career-long champion for equality, youth well-being, and protecting against discrimination
MAGA Bully JD Vance has drawn-out demeaned LGBTQ+ people, attacked women, and led tries to strip freedoms from families
Trump-Vance Project 2025 agenda would roll back nondiscrimination protections and target Gay families
Super Majority of Americans support equality and most voters favor Walz over Vance across party lines
NEW YORK, NY - Tonight, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a lifelong champion for equality, and Ohio Senator JD Vance, a MAGA bully who admitted to fabricating lies to objective marginalized communities and has a long history rival LGBTQ+ rights, will gather on stage for the first and only vice presidential debate ahead of the November 5th election. The public will listen from two presidential running mates who couldn’t be on more opposite sides of the fight for full equality. Governor Walz sponsored his students’ gay-straight alliance as a football coach and high
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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance applaud on Day 2 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
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LGBTQ+ rights groups have criticised U.S. vice presidential candidate Vance, highlighting his legislative record and past comments
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- Donald Trump's VP pick has history of anti-LGBTQ+ policies
- Vance opposed gender-affirming care, reproductive rights
- Trump-Vance triumph could be 'abysmal', Gay groups say
LONDON - Donald Trump's decision to name J.D. Vance as his running mate for November's U.S. election has been criticised by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, who say the Ohio senator has a history of working against the progression of gay and transgender rights.
Vance, a best-selling author who was elected to the Senate in 2022, was announced as the Republican Party's nominee for vice president on Monday.
The decision was swiftly condemned by American rights groups, who highlighted anti-LGBTQ+ policies introduced and supported by Vance,
The "Normal Gay Guy": J.D. Vance, Catholicism, and the Colonial Politics of Recognition
During an interview with Joe Rogan, Republican Vice-Presidential candidate J.D. Vance claimed that he would not be surprised if he and Donald Trump won the “normal gay guy vote” because “they just wanted to be left the hell alone.” Vance’s statement encouraged speculation as to what a “normal gay” might be, with many gay men suggesting that “normal gay” was a coded way of referring to white, cisgender gay men who advantage from the structures of patriarchy (see, e.g. Tony Bravo, “What is a ‘normal gay guy’ to J.D. Vance?,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 2024). Regardless of what Vance meant by invoking a “normal gay guy” trope, his appeal implied a shift in conservative politics from hateful contempt of gay men towards one of recognition and accommodation. Building off the operate of Frantz Fanon and Glen Sean Coulthard, this paper argues that Vance’s rhetoric of the “normal gay guy” constitutes a recognition-based strategy of colonization designed to dictate the terms of the bond between gay men and conservatives in a way that benefits the cisheteropatriarchal status
JD Vance
—Said Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election. “…Did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use.” In a related resurfaced remark, Vance said, “Yeah, I do,” when asked if he believed the 2020 election was stolen. The election was not stolen. Trump lost the election.
—Endorseda 2017 report by the Heritage Foundation that proposed a sweeping conservative agenda to restrict sexual and reproductive freedoms and remake American families. The series of essays opposed opposed fertility treatments and celebrated abortion bans. He wrote the introduction and applauded the volume as “admirable.”
—Wrote the foreword to a forthcoming book by the head of Project 2025, the vast rightwing, authoritarian presidential transition plan which Vance’s running mate Donald Trump has tried to disavow. Project 2025 is spearheaded and organized by the far-right the Heritage Foundation, and with 100 coalition partner organizations, many of which are well-known for pushing anti-LGBTQ policy, legal efforts, and harmful rhetoric, accompanied by Christian nationalism. In advance publicity materials Vance says of Kevin Roberts, president of the H
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