Russell’s the artistic director at Seattle’s Intiman Theater. “I find that our group, we have much more success and relationship-building in the conservative community than we do within our own gay community.”įor one more perspective, I asked Andrew Russell his view on Trump being a gay icon. “I will take a Republican convention any day over ,” Curtis said. He said this will be a hard issue for his party, harder than same-sex marriage.īut he said, laughing, that it’s still easier than advocating a Republican agenda among gay liberals. His group will oppose a ballot measure that would prevent transgender people from using the bathrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify with, and they’ll try to do outreach to other Republicans on the issue. But as a college student, he has developed more liberal attitudes on social issues like transgender rights. “It is a little disheartening to see that it’s boiled down to Trump.”īut Curtis said he doesn’t rule out supporting Trump: “That’s not to say that Trump won’t warm up to me or I won’t warm up to Trump, it’s that I don’t know him.”Ĭurtis says as a voter, he cares about smaller government and strong national defense. “I do consider myself part of the establishment,” Curtis said. He said Trump has mostly been elusive when it comes to addressing gay issues or meeting with gay Republicans.
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