Anti-gay MAGA candidate trolled with photo of her husband dancing in a speedo at… Pride??
williamsom-families.org (with an “m”) instead of williamson-families.org (with an “n”).Someone quickly rushed to register the williamsom-families.org domain and used it to post a photo of Hanson’s husband, wearing a US flag speedo, at Chicago Pride.
They included a caption saying, “So proud of my husband Tom at our Chicago Pride festival!”The site went on to link to several news stories highlighting Hanson’s far-right views.The photo of Hanson’s husband is real.
Before relocating to Franklin, Hanson and her husband, Tom, had spent time living in Chicago. Tom ran as a Republican candidate for Illinois’ 5th congressional district in 2008.In an interview with Windy City Times that year, he explained his presence and outfit at Pride.Promoting himself as a “liberal Republican” with no support from the mainstream party, he sought at eye-catching ways of raising awareness about his campaign.“I contacted the Chicago Pride organization and I said that I wanted to be in it.
For several weeks they resisted my efforts to be in the parade because a Republican in the late ’90s was in the parade and he protested gay rights and they honestly didn’t want a Republican in there.
