‘Everybody’s Freaking Gay’: Queer Republicans Reportedly Flock to DC Under ‘Drag Queen’ Trump

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President Trump has turned Washington, D.C. into a go-to spot for gay conservatives since returning to office, according to a new report from The New York Times, with one queer reporter championing the president as a “camp icon” who is “like a drag queen.”

“He’s outrageous, he’s transgressive, he’s catty, he’s a narcissist the likes of which we haven’t seen since Alexander the Great,” reporter James Kirchick explained to the Times.

Times reporter Shawn McCreesh interviewed several openly gay conservative men in D.C. for the piece, including a handful who moved to the nation’s capital following Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris last November; the flock of gay Republicans that has arrived in D.C. has been impossible to ignore — and even jarring to some women who were aiming to find their dream MAGA boyfriend post-election.

“The funny thing is, I had a lot of girlfriends who wanted to move here,” Natalie Winters, the co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, said. “They thought the dating scene would be really great, that MAGA would bring in a whole wave of like, you know, eligible, conservative, smart, enterprising men.”

Instead of that happening, though, Winters said “everybody’s freaking gay.”

The second Trump Administration has been especially welcoming to gay conservatives, relative to past Republican administrations, the Times noted, with men like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent playing key roles. As the Times put it, these are the “A-Gays” who are “(mostly) out” and “proud” to work for the president. And gay conservatives, both inside and out of the Trump Administration, “worship” First Lady Melania Trump, the Times added.

Still, there are some among the “gay left” who “just can’t handle the fact that President Trump loves the gays,” Casey Flores, a 34-year-old Kennedy Center fund-raiser, told the paper.

And even though Washington, D.C.’s “relatively small” pro-Trump gay community is growing quickly, there is still room for dissent, the Times added.

“Just because we’re all homos doesn’t mean we’re all friends,” Jon Levine, a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon, told the Times.

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