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>When Evan decided it was time to tell his boyfriend that he voted for Trump, he couldn’t get the words out. “I was stuttering for 20 minutes straight on the phone,” he told Uncloseted Media and GAY TIMES.

>Once he finally worked up the courage, he was met with pushback: “He made fun of me. … He called me a racist and a white supremacist,” says Evan, a 21-year-old math major who lives in Long Island, New York.

>That pushback isn’t unusual: According to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, 83% of queer men typically vote Democrat. One key reason gay men swing left in 2026 is because of the Trump administration and MAGA-aligned politicians’ track record on LGBTQ issues. Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has terminated more than $1 billion worth of grants to HIV-related research, removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument and shut down the LGBTQ-specific option on the 988 youth suicide hotline.

>Because of this, many of the fewer than one in five LGBTQ men who cast their ballot for Trump in 2024 face judgment for their political affiliation.

>“People think that I hate myself for being gay, and that I’m a gay traitor. … I wish there were more gay conservatives or moderates,” says Evan, who requested to use a pseudonym due to fears over retaliation for his political views.

"The connections run deeper than just lobbying. The Atlanta Police Foundation, one of Atlanta’s most powerful law enforcement advocacy organizations, lists both Flock Safety founder Garrett Langley AND Nick Juliano on its board.

Also sitting on that same board: Doug Hertz of United Distributors, one of Chris Carr’s top campaign donors. This is the same organization whose stated mission includes expanding surveillance technology across Atlanta.

Flock’s founder, Flock’s lobbyist, and a top Carr donor, all in the same room."

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock #trending #viral #fyp

> While some took advantage of the US program, growing worries about mass shootings, immigration enforcement, and political instability in the US have prompted many to reconsider and return home.