Billy Eichner: Mike Pence is a closeted gay man
Billy on the Street’s Billy Eichner took to Twitter this past weekend to express his belief that Vice President Mike Pence is a homosexual, as right-wing website Heat Street none-too-fondly reports:
Pence is a closeted gay man who turned his self loathing into a political agenda 2 punish the part of himself he hates most. Enjoy the game!
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) February 5, 2017
Then there’s this equally unsubtle Tweet:
Mike Pence is gay.
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) January 26, 2017
Definitely succinct stuff.
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By this point, Pence is probably used to being trolled on Twitter. He’s already been lampooned by the likes of Mike Hot-Pence:
Supporting @PPMW_DC is the next best thing to being at #PinkBall. Text the code “pinkball” to 41444 to Donate! ? pic.twitter.com/lqYm1Ao1Gu
— Mike Hot-Pence (@MikeHotPence) January 21, 2017
He was also compared (unfavorably) to adult film star Brad Patton in memes such as this:
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Right now, there’s an ongoing Reddit thread in which community members are weighing in on what exactly to do with the antigay politician and “best defend ourselves from losing the rights we worked so hard to get.”
John2Nhoj writes:
None of Pence’s attempts at making laws against gays survived here in Indiana, because large businesses that make up a great deal of the state’s economy threatened to move out of the state.
Also: unless one announces that they are gay to every business they enter the business would have to prove they are gay. It would surely generate a lot of law suits if business only guessed that people were gay, refused to serve them and they weren’t gay.
Lastly: one could and still can be fired for being gay in Indiana long before Pence was in office here.
You can join that discussion here.
NBC News clip “LGBT Community Worries What Will Happen for Them in Trump Presidency” shares the fears of LGBTQ individuals across the country and in the South facing a Trump administration. The segment “North Carolina and Georgia Anti-LGBTQ Laws” on Late Night with Seth Meyers puts a spotlight on anti-LGBTQ discrimination bills and their consequences in Southern states. Elizabeth Leland’s article “Permission to Hate,” published in the Charlotte Observer, documents the fear felt by the queer community in North Carolina following HB2. “After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos,” a New Yorker piece by Daniel Wenger, details the impact of the Pulse Nightclub shooting on the queer Latinx community in Orlando, FL.
