1977-09-01

On this date the present-day LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS organization is founded as the “Gay Republicans” club, a group of assimilationist Lesbians and Gays within the United States’ Republican Party. Like Jews for Jesus it remains a mystery what could possibly motivate these people other than very limited and narrowly defined self-interest. It has only grown worse, as can be seen in a recent New York Times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/style/gay-men-trump-administration-republicans.html