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Queers’ (Un)Surprising Support for Right-Wing Parties in Germany and the United States

Her core topics are stress management and the mental health of employees. In some cases, this seems consistent and in others, less plausible. One seemingly apparent contradiction is queer people who support right-wing parties. By extension, it is assumed the queer community is a tight voting block of reliably liberal or leftist voters in Germany and the United States, excluded from the right due to its insistence on homogeneity and heteronormativity.

In a traditional political context, the United States saw Marvin Liebman, Robert Bauman, and Michael Hess rise as prominent conservatives from the s to the s. While reports vary widely on whether GOP leaders—including President Reagan—knew they were gay, their work ranged from anti-communism efforts in the United States and internationally to congressional redistricting.

These men hid their personal lives while working in visible leadership roles in the Republican Party and Republican administrations. Today, similar developments can be seen in the right-wing party Alternative for Germany AfD with Alice Weidel, their openly lesbian co-chair.

In addition, the AfD desires censorship of queer representations in wing gay media, reminiscent of the past. With this, queer support for the AfD seems especially surprising. Although this study, with 10, gay men, is not representative of the entire queer population, the results show tendencies of gay men to support right-wing politics.

I am proud to be a Republican. Ambassador to Germany from to Alongside this increase is a GOP platform that makes no mention wing gay gay marriage for the first time in decades. Pritzker may not be alone in this sentiment given that 22 percent of queer people voted for Republican Mitt Romney in the presidential election.

Naturally, we are left wondering about the motives of these queer people, who stand as minorities in their own community. The theory of homonationalism could help explain some of the dynamics. While we cannot draw a conclusion about the relationship between queer identity and politics, we do know that people of all sexual and gender identities like those who are similar to them—belonging is a psychological need.

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