Among the working class GLBT people, young and old, with whom I share an occasional evening at the local GLBT bar, are a group of Gay and Lesbian Republicans.

The older ones, although accepting the results of those who fought to get them the rights that Massachusetts GLBT people have, never contributed to the fight to get them. They somehow saw the up-side of oppression as long as they financially benefited from the Constitutional crumbs they were allowed, viewing any progress as a gradual and inevitable chain of events brought about by politicians who changed their attitudes through enlightened intellectual growth.

They do not see why people made such a fuss over not having rights since we would get them eventually, and as evidence of that, they present the rights won by those who fought for them.

While having voted for those who saw AIDS as a deserved punishment from God that should be allowed to run its course, they lament those lost.

But they are doing well financially, so that’s all that matters.

Some actually justify the oppression then as its just being the way it was, and explain away and accept the attempts to bring the oppression back now. They will blindly claim that the acquiring of rights was a gradual and self fulfilling chain of events without acknowledging it was a decades long struggle.

The younger ones just assume present conditions are the way it has always been, and as long as they benefit financially they can always weather the loss of rights, a condition about which they have no knowledge.

While in the old days bar entrances were in alleys for the safety of the clientele, and the bars were in those parts of cities that “respectable” people would not go because those were the only locations the cities allowed, they see open doors, main street bars, and not having to hide as a loss of kitchiness.

When confronted with the present administration’s declarations to whittle away at GLBT rights, both the old and young Gay Republicans dismiss them as just words with no real desire to follow through, even as the follow through is clearly happening.

They financially support and vote for those who would take away their rights in a heartbeat because things are great in their bubble, and their bubble is opaque. They neither see nor care about anyone outside, as long as things are fine for them.

And they do not see that they are being played.

As people, they do not matter to those they support. Their support and the money they contribute do.

Since 2000 the Log Cabin Republicans have attempted to have a booth at the Texas Republican Party convention. Its members contribute money to the party, and often speak in support of the Party’s anti-GLBT Party Platforms and in favor of proposed and passed anti-GLBT legislation, while condemning the “militant”, progressive Gays who, in spite of the GOP, have gotten them what rights they have.

But in those 20 years the Log Cabin application has been consistently rejected.

This being a presidential election year, when, once again, applying for a booth, they were rejected because the party described the members of the Log Cabin Republicans as “immoral and perverted” people. I am sure the members are pleased in the progress they have been making in the party as this time they seem to have dropped the claim that they are also pedophiles.

The GOP also rejected  the group’s request to be recognized as an official affiliate.

State Senator Rob Hall accused the group’s members of promoting “unnatural sex.”

“They don’t have the basic belief in the God of the Bible that we are founded on. I could not find anywhere on their website an expression of their faith in God like you will find on a Republican website. This abominable sex education that goes on in our schools where they’re trying to push unnatural sex as natural — we are not on the same side of that issue!”

In 2018, out of 81 planks on the Texas GOP’s platform, 24 were anti-GLBT, and dealt with such things as:

• Keeping conversion therapy legal,

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• Affirming God’s biblical design for marriage and sexual behavior between one biological man and one biological woman.

• Withholding jurisdiction from the federal courts in cases involving family law, especially any changes in the definition of marriage.

• Opposing “Taxpayer Funding for Sex Change” and transgender people in the military.

• Restricting bathrooms to a “person’s biological sex.”

• Opposing “all efforts to validate transgender identity”,

• repealing the Hate Crimes Law,

• Opposing “any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction, or belief in traditional values”,

• labeling GLBT Constitutional rights as “special legal entitlements” and ”special status for homosexual behavior”,

and

• removing laws and regulations that are used to force business owners to follow laws against anti-GLBT discrimination.

However, to justify accepting these planks, and to put a positive spin on yet another rejection to participating in the convention or even being accepted as part of the GOP, Log Cabin has said that the number of people who spoke in support of accepting the group’s money to buy booth space was encouraging.

How nice.

While rejecting the people, the GOP will accept their money, and those people see it as just fine.

This is what a “mark” is.

It’s all about the “benjamins”, not the Benjamins