Republican Jeff Gunter, a dermatologist, candidate for U.S. Senate in Nevada and the previous ambassador to Iceland beneath the Trump administration, is touting his previous help for a Delight group recognized to advertise radical gender ideology and bash regulation enforcement as a part of its help for the Black Lives Matter Motion (BLM).
In line with Gunter’s marketing campaign web site, he lists as “triumphs” his participation within the 2019 Reykjavik Delight Parade, an $11,000 grant awarded by the U.S. authorities to the Reykjavik Delight group that very same yr “to advertise equal rights,” and mentioned that he “demonstrated U.S. dedication to LGBTI+ rights in the course of the 2020 Reykjavik Delight occasion.”
Reykjavik Delight’s historical past with radical gender ideology contains what one native Iceland media outlet reported was the group’s planning lectures about transphobia and LGBTQ college kids as a part of its Delight 2020 celebration, along with the president of the group boasting about marching in drag throughout that yr’s parade and provoking a buddy’s baby to cross gown.
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College of Iceland college students participate within the Reykjavík Delight parade on August 17, 2019 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Sophia Groves/Getty Pictures)
Images posted on social media by Reykjavik Delight present that on plenty of different events, the group included drag queens as a part of its celebrations that had kids in attendance. A kind of celebrations, the 2022 “household Rainbow Competition,” concerned kids dancing with drag queens in entrance of the group.
Different images additionally included sexually express performances at occasions over time.
Moreover, the group’s 2020 Delight celebration, held within the wake of the loss of life of George Floyd within the U.S., included lectures calling to defund the police and expressed help for BLM.
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When reached for remark, Gunter instructed Fox Information Digital that his participation within the Reykjavik Delight occasions was inside his capability as U.S. ambassador, that it was in help of former President Donald Trump’s “marketing campaign to decriminalize homosexuality world wide and to face towards brutal regimes like Iran who proceed to criminalize gays.”
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iceland and Republican Nevada Senate candidate Jeff Gunter. (U.S. Embassy Iceland)
“Clearly, marching in a pleasure parade doesn’t represent an endorsement of something and all the pieces that somebody could also be saying or doing in parades throughout the globe,” Gunter mentioned.
“To make clear, I by no means gave the group cash, in reality it was licensed earlier than I arrived. As well as, I declined to offer cash to them in 2020 and gave it as a substitute to an advocacy group to help those that are disabled. I additionally formally requested the Icelandic Ambassador to the U.S. to take away the BLM endorsement from the official Icelandic Authorities Web site,” he added.
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When requested whether or not the Icelandic authorities complied with the request, a spokesperson for Gunter mentioned they didn’t.
Gunter additionally took a jab at fellow Republican Sam Brown, considered one of his opponents within the Nevada GOP Senate main, whom he known as “Rip-off Brown.”
Brown is “extra in step with Iran than Donald Trump on this challenge,” he added. “It’s simply one of many many causes that he refuses to endorse Donald Trump for 2024 and can barely say his title.”
Contributors wave flags in the course of the Reykjavík Delight parade on August 17, 2019 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Sophia Groves/Getty Pictures)
“I’m happy with my work supporting the Trump agenda overseas. And I’m 110% supporting Donald Trump in 2024,” he added.
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Gunter is considered one of eight candidates vying for the Republican nomination in Nevada’s Senate race, which is predicted to be probably the most carefully watched of the 2024 election cycle and will decide which get together controls the chamber.
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