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In reply to the discussion: Cait Jenner is an entitled Republican jerk. She's no ally, at this point anyway. [View all]Prism
(5,815 posts)In the LGBT community, it isn't uncommon at all to see wealthier people hold conservative or Republican views. Like with those gay hoteliers who hosted the Ted Cruz dinner. They had money, and all their politics were mainly informed by that money.
It also created a lot of division even within LGBT Democrats during President Obama's first term. While the community was protesting, the professional activist/Establishment crowd wanted much more accomodationist tactics. This drove the rest of the community nuts. People like the heads of the Human Rights Campaign were too busy protecting their access, their wealth, and their connected friends. They were referred to derisively as "the cocktail set" by those of us that did not share their privilege. Eventually they collapsed in the face of a community on the edge of full-on revolt.
That aside, it's not uncommon to find LGBTers who are really only liberal or Democratic because of gay rights issues. One of the things I'm interested to see over the next decade or so is if the Democratic Party maintains a 75% share of the LGBT vote now that marriage is resolved. There are still discriminatory/equality issues to work out at the moment, but I think, if it weren't for the Dem/Repub divide on LGBT equality, you'd see a more "normalized" breakdown in LGBT conservatism/liberalism in relation to the rest of the general population.
I think, because prominent LGBT activists and organizations tend to be themselves very liberal or leftist, that people get the impression most of us are. But that isn't much the case. We're a very, very diverse spectrum of ideologies.