US vice president-elect J.D. Vance’s track record with LGBTQ issues isn’t great. Here’s what he’s said and done through the years.
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON UNCLOSETED MEDIA A NEW INVESTIGATIVE LGBTQIA+ FOCUSSED NEWS PUBLICATION.
WORDS BY SAM DONNDELINGER AND UNCLOSETED MEDIA
Pre-politics
Vance hears a speech delivered by gay venture capitalist Peter Thiel, which convinces him to become a businessman instead of a lawyer. From this moment forward Thiel becomes an influential force in Vance’s career. Thiel later hires Vance as a partner at his global investment firm.
Vance publishes his memoir in which he writes about his thoughts on feeling gay as a child:
“She said, ‘Don’t be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you’re gay?’ I explained my thought process. Mamaw chuckled and seemed to consider how she might explain to a boy my age. Finally she asked, ‘J.D., do you want to suck dicks?’ I was flabbergasted. Why would someone want to do that? She repeated herself, and I said, ‘Of course not!’ ‘Then,’ she said, ‘you’re not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay. God would still love you.’ That settled the matter. Apparently I didn’t have to worry about being gay anymore. Now that I’m older, I recognise the profundity of her sentiment: Gay people, though unfamiliar, threatened nothing about Mamaw’s being. There were more important things for a Christian to worry about.”
Ohio Senator
Vance sends a message to folks trying to limit discussion of LGBTQIA+ issues in the classroom: “I’ll stop calling people ‘groomers’ when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children.”
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Vance says pharmaceutical companies are “experiment[ing] on children” with “medical castration.” When asked about sex-ed and gender in the classroom, he says: “The democrats are advocating to teach about sexuality and crazy gender theory to 7-year-old children.”
Vance says in a radio interview: “I
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