Gay Republican George Santos Disgraces LGBTQ+ Community
His extremist views do not represent us
There are a variety of reasons that Medium is the sole platform I use for my writing. One of those reasons is the freedom to write informative pieces where I can sprinkle my own opinion throughout. I am not bound to write just the facts as a neutral party and can assess the facts I am writing about based upon my own ideals.
This article is an example of my love of that freedom. As I began researching George Santos, the Republican House of Representatives candidate running in this November’s elections, my stomach turned sour. We see LGBTQ+ people fighting for their basic rights daily in the country and we are trying desperately to turn the tide of Republican right-wing extremism.
All of that to end up with a goddamn traitor fighting against us.
George Santos is not only a Republican who supports Trump, he is a gay man. A gay man with a fiancee and four dogs, who lives on Long Island and is the first generation among his family born in the United States, as his parents immigrated from Brazil.
How.
How can you hold all those identities and stand against every one of them with your political affiliation? Stand against them with your values and morals, or lack…
