Trump supporter sues an LGBTQ center & says he suffered anti-gay discrimination there

Brandon Straka speaking at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference.
Photo: YouTube screen capture

Gay Trump supporter and founder of the #WalkAway movement Brandon Straka is suing New York’s LGBT Community Center because the Center cancelled his March 2019 town hall which sought to encourage LGBTQ people to abandon the Democratic Party in favor of the GOP.

Straka’s court filing says “refusing to rent space to LGBTQ people because they are not embracing left-leaning political beliefs is the same as refusing to rent to them because they are LGBTQ.”

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Straka had signed a contract with the Center and paid it a $650 rental fee before online activists decried the Center’s hosting of the event and pointed out past anti-LGBTQ statements made by Straka and his town hall co-panelists.

In various social media posts, Straka called non-binary identity “political leftist crap” and claimed the Trump administration isn’t against LGBTQ people (even though it totally is), Rob Smith blamed homophobia on Muslims, Blair White called “transgenderism… a mental disorder” and advocated killing refugees at the southern U.S. border, and Mike Harlow said bisexual Arizona Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema “reminds me of a hooker.”

In July 2018, CNN called #WalkAway  “pure propaganda” and said the hashtag had been largely pushed onto social media by Russian bots during the 2018 midterm elections.

The Center cancelled Straka’s event in May 2019 and refunded Straka his money. Straka then sued the Center for defamation and discrimination…

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