Building A More Inclusive GOP

Fifty years ago next year, Log Cabin Republicans was founded on a simple conviction: that gay Americans who believe in limited government, individual liberty, and equality deserve equal protection under the law and a voice inside the Republican Party. From the start, Log Cabin Republicans grounded its advocacy in constitutional principles - equal protection, limited government, and individual freedom. In 2015, the Log Cabin Republicans Board of Directors voted to add the “T” under the umbrella of our mission - out of a belief that all adults should be allowed to pursue their own happiness, free of government interference, as...

Opinion: Since 2015, Identity Politics Has Narrowed What It Means to Be Gay Over the past decade, something troubling has taken root in the gay community. Beginning around 2015, as identity politics surged into the mainstream, a new expectation emerged: that there is a single “correct” way to be gay. This shift didn’t empower us. It narrowed us. It isolated those who didn’t conform. And it weakened the very diversity our community once celebrated. The rise of ideological uniformity has pushed the gay community toward becoming a political monolith where dissent is treated as betrayal. Independent thought—once a hallmark of...