Nathan Ivie, the Utah county commissioner who came out as gay last year, will need to find a gig. Ivie suffered a sound defeat in a primary election last week.Ivie came out in 2019 as a way of showing the world that a gay man could be accepted within ultra-conservative Utah.
Apparently, he misread the state’s attitudes toward LGBTQ people.“Absolutely, my sexuality was part of the issue. There’s no doubt,” Ivie told reporters last week. “I can’t tell you the number of hate emails I received.
I didn’t make an issue out of it in the campaign because that’s not the kind of person I am. But there is no doubt that the Eagle Forum [a conservative group] and its lies were absolutely in play here.