Interesting side note to tonight’s RNC Convention speaker roster.
CNN is reporting that tech billionaire Peter Thiel plans to declare openly to the Convention audience that he is proud to be gay. And….
He plans to warn the party against fighting unnecessary culture wars, the source said, and tell Republicans to let people use whichever bathroom they want to use.
(emphasis mine)
I find Mr. Thiel and his political leanings to be horrible, overall, from what I know about the guy. But, good on him for speaking directly on LGBT issues to the Republicans on live TV with an unusually big national audience. In an arena that is chock full of homophobes, including Trump’s VP pick.
I don’t believe anyone has ever done this before, at the Republicans’ convention. It’ll be interesting to see what the audience does. If they boo him or get nasty in some other way, well... the Democrats’ convention next week is a welcoming space.