TrumpSingles aims to connect lonely bigots labeled as undesirable by the general population

The most recent Match.com Singles in America survey found that “voting for Trump” was the country’s #2 turn-off when it came to dating, second only to “complaining on Facebook.”

Well, never fear, Trumpers! There’s hope yet. TrumpSingles is a dating site exclusively for single people whose political beliefs have caused them to be labeled as undesirable by the general population.

“At TrumpSingles.com we strive to make dating great again by offering a place where you can find single, like-minded people!” the website promises.

Related: LGBTQ Trump supporters complain about being “excommunicated” by peers

The site, which allows users to search for same-sex or opposite-sex partners, emerged a few months ago, but it has just recently started gaining traction. It claims to have about 25,000 members, and that that number has only increased since Trump took office last month.

“You know, like a liberal doesn’t want to date a Nazi. And a republican doesn’t want to date, well, a whiny snowflake,” creator David Goss recently told NPR.

He added: “[Liberals] are just repeating this left echo chamber of ‘Oh, you must be a racist; oh, you must be a homophobe; oh, you must be a misogynist.’ They’re judging the people based on who they voted for without actually getting to know them.”

Related: Twitter feed documents downtrodden Trump supporters’ regrets over voting for their guy

Borrowing a page from Trump’s playbook, Goss says he does most of his marketing on Twitter, with popular posts such as these:

Love long walks with your love? Find someone who feels the same on #TrumpSingles today! t.co/Zqfp55HUj9 pic.twitter.com/7qJIHUIL2q

— TrumpSingles (@trumpsinglescom) February 14, 2017

Attention ladies! There are amazing men to choose for on our #dating site! t.co/Zqfp55HUj9 pic.twitter.com/cdg80JEpo6

— TrumpSingles (@trumpsinglescom) February 14, 2017

Don’t waster another day alone! Find the right soulmate on #TrumpSingles today! t.co/Zqfp55HUj9 pic.twitter.com/TdKTuQmGaz

— TrumpSingles (@trumpsinglescom) February 9, 2017

Look, dating, like presidenting, is hard, folks.

Related: This Muslim-hating gay Muslim man calls Donald Trump “Daddy”

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Twinks4Trump’s Lucian Wintrich Is Now a Credentialed White House Reporter. No, Seriously

Deplorable right-wing gay blogger Jim Hoft (above left) now has his very own White House correspondent in the form of non-journalist Lucian Wintrich (above right).

Twinks4Trump’s Wintrich was announced by Gateway Pundit’s Hoft on Monday and both attended the White House briefing on the same day.

RELATED: There Was a ‘Gays for Trump’ Party at the RNC and It Was Absolutely Insane – VIDEOS, PHOTOS

In photos published on Twitter, Haft and Wintrich are seen standing behind the lectern in the press briefing room, displaying a hand signal associated with the racist “Pepe” meme.

‘Real News’ Joins the White House Briefing Room t.co/Iv3QVHVhQI

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) February 15, 2017

Yes, you read that correctly – in the press briefing room. Displaying a hand signal associated with the racist “Pepe” meme.

Because that’s ok.

A historic and packed press conference with @netanyahu & @realDonaldTrump today! pic.twitter.com/hzZtPg2NvC

— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) February 15, 2017

Media Matters explain more about Hoft, their “dumbest man on the internet’s” day trip:

Hoft’s political blog has often served as the single source for completely unfounded reporting that nonetheless catches fire in the right-wing internet world, until it becomes what Kellyanne Conway might deem an “alternative fact.” The frequency with which he posts hoaxes and complete fabrications as fact suggests Hoft either has a reckless and total disregard for the truth or is so incompetent he cannot separate fact from fiction.

On Wintrich, Media Matters notes:

The Gateway Pundit’s new White House correspondent is now attending press briefings, and it’s unclear how “brand strategist and digital creative” Lucian Wintrich, who frequently refers to the new president endearingly as “daddy,” will approach this responsibility. If his past actions and social media persona are any indication, Wintrich will follow the Gateway Pundit formula for irresponsible and dangerous reporting, and perhaps even more explicitly incite harassment from his new White House platform.

…He recently wrote on social media, “I don’t consider myself a journalist, I consider myself the future of journalism.”

Indeed, Wintrich does not appear to have much experience as a political reporter prior to joining The Gateway Pundit; a Nexis search of his name for the last five years reveals only a handful of articles in which he is quoted, and no bylined pieces.

…Wintrich’s experience as a writer seems to have begun with his tongue-in-cheek approach to personal harassment in college. According to a VICE profile of Wintrich, “his writings were rejected by the student newspaper” at Bard College while he was a student there, so Wintrich subsequently started a rival blog, which posted an anonymously written column referring to a fellow student’s vagina as “cold and damp” and linking to her personal Facebook page.

@lucianwintrich @sartoris1960 No worse than allowing CNN to keep press passes!

— D. Scott (@eclipsethis2003) February 14, 2017

Wintrich is known to be close to or associated with such alt-right figures as Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, “Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli, Gavin McInnes, and “citizen journalist” vigilante James O’Keefe.

(Wintrich image via Twitter. Haft image via YouTube)

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Southern Poverty Law Center Designates ‘Alliance Defending Freedom’ as an Anti-Gay Hate Group: VIDEO

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced that anti-gay litigation group the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has been designated a hate group.

The ADF is perhaps best known for defending companies that refuse to do business with LGBT people but has also been involved in efforts to spread its message outside of the U.S.

According to the Washington Blade, in a press release yesterday the SPLC described the ADF as “a legal advocacy and training group that specializes in supporting the recriminalization of homosexuality abroad, ending same-sex marriage and generally making life as difficult as possible for LGBT communities in the U.S. and internationally.”

RELATED: Minnesota Couple With No Gay Clients Sues to Refuse LGBT Customers, Because God: WATCH

Today we’re releasing our annual Year in Hate report documenting near historic numbers of hate groups in the U.S. t.co/LMTb73Nxzt pic.twitter.com/NhdQlQFXPc

— SPLC (@splcenter) February 15, 2017

The Alabama-based SPLC also released a series of anti-LGBT statements the ADF has made. These include:

“We mention the new promotion of pedophilia in the context of talking about the influence of homosexual behavior on college campuses, because, despite all objections to the contrary, the two are often intrinsically linked.”(Alan Sears and Craig Osten, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, 2003)

“[The] degradation of our human dignity has occurred. It has occurred, with raging effect, and within twelve months, on the heels of government mandated recognition of same-sex ‘marriage’ – an oxymoronic institution if ever there was one.” (ADF-affiliated attorney Charles LiMandri)

“America needs to take note that [India] has rejected the road towards same-sex marriage, and understood that these kinds of bad decisions in the long run will harm society.” (Benjamin Bull, executive director of ADF Global, on the recriminalization of homosexuality in India, 2013)

“And in the course of the now hundreds of cases the Alliance Defense Fund has now fought involving this homosexual agenda, one thing is certain: there is no room for compromise with those who would call evil ‘good.’” (Alan Sears, speaking at the World Congress of Families gathering in Madrid, Spain, 2012)

“In the end, those who profess to be ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian,’ or who have otherwise slipped in and out of homosexual behavior, including ‘cruising’ for anonymous partners, are people who succumb to a dangerous temptation.” (Austin Nimocks, then-ADF senior counsel, writing at TownHall.com, 2007)

SPLC’s Mark Potok said during a conference call yesterday that the ADF has “failed in the effort to keep homosexuality outlawed in this country.”

“[It] has resorted in the wake of the 2013 Lawrence decision,” he continued, “to exporting its hatred to other countries.”

The ADF did not reply to requests for comment from the Washington Blade.

Watch ADF’s “religious freedom” video below.

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Acclaimed Author and Columnist Charles Blow to Speak at HRC’s Time to THRIVE Conference

Today HRC announced that author and New York Times columnist Charles Blow, whose writing bravely explores issues of social justice, politics and equality, will be a featured speaker at HRC’s annual Time to THRIVE Conference.

HRC’s Time to THRIVE, the nation’s premier conference for K-12 educators, professional counselors and other youth-serving professionals on LGBTQ youth safety, inclusion and well-being, will be held April 28-30 in Washington, D.C., in partnership with the National Education Association and the American Counseling Association.

“Charles Blow has made a career of using his powerful voice to raise urgent issues of race, class, gender and sexual orientation, while holding accountable the powerful whose actions disproportionately affect the lives of the most vulnerable among us,” said Ellen Kahn, Director of the HRC Foundation’s Children, Youth & Families Program. “His decision to come out as bisexual in his brave and honest memoir is an inspiration to so many, and we are honored to have him join us at Time to THRIVE.”

In his column for the New York Times, Blow tackles hot-button issues such as social justice, racial equality, presidential politics, police violence, gun control, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. His critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, in which he movingly related his struggle with coming out as bisexual, won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize, and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014. People Magazine called it “searing and unforgettable.”

Blow is also a commentator on CNN, and taught a seminar on media and politics at Yale as a Presidential Visiting Professor.

Other special guests at HRC’s Time to THRIVE include Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric, Miss America contestant Erin O’Flaherty, Out of Iraq stars Nayyef Hrebid & Btoo Al Lami, transgender advocate Jazz Jennings, and members of HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council — including Jazz’s mother, Jeanette.

HRC’s Time to THRIVE Conference features 72 workshops by more than 45 national and grassroots organizations dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ youth. Special conference guests and additional speakers.

HRC’s Time to THRIVE is the premier national convening of educators and youth-serving professionals to build awareness and cultural competency, learn current and emerging best practices, and gather resources from leading experts and national organizations in the field. Time to THRIVE will take place April 28-30 in Washington, D.C. with Toyota and AT&T as the presenting sponsor. To register, visit www.TimeToThrive.org. 

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When a Mormon Teen Comes Out: Holden

Photographer Maxwell Poth photographed and gathered the stories of Mormon teens coming out in Utah. This is Holden’s story.

www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/2/16/when-mormon-teen-comes-out-holden

Why everyone's talking about last night's trans representation on TV

www.glaad.org/blog/why-everyones-talking-about-last-nights-trans-representation-tv

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Journalist Cancels Appearance on 'Real Time' with Bill Maher Because of Milo (Video)

HBO had to find someone else for its live panel discussion Friday night after Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept backed out, over his objection to the booking of the controversial out Breitbart editor. 

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