本月早些时候，保守派男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者组织“小木屋共和党人”在2020年选举中支持唐纳德·特朗普。自批准以来，该组织的一些成员已经辞职，包括该组织的执行主任。
星期五，小木屋共和党的第一位女性领导人杰瑞·安·亨利递交了辞呈，并于星期一正式离开该组织华盛顿刀片据报告的。亨利在该组织主席罗伯特·卡贝尔和副主席吉尔·霍曼发表了一篇评论文章后离开了华盛顿邮报宣布唐纳德·特朗普在2020年总统竞选中获得了木屋共和党人的正式支持。
特朗普帮助该党走出了20世纪90年代和21世纪初主导的文化战争，尤其是从共和党旧剧本中删除了同性恋权利这一楔形问题卡贝尔和霍曼写道。“自上任以来，特朗普总统履行了他对美国的许多承诺，包括采取有益于男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者群体的大胆行动”
事实证明，8月15日的声明在组织内部颇有争议。根据叶片亨利被禁止公开代表小木屋共和党人发言，尽管他是执行董事。
亨利离开的决定是在詹尼弗·霍恩辞职后做出的，詹尼弗·霍恩也因特朗普的支持离开了该集团。在a评论张贴霍恩说她永远不会支持特朗普。
霍恩说:“没有一个世界能让我坐在餐桌旁向我的孩子们解释我刚刚支持唐纳德·特朗普当选总统。”。“这与我教给他们的关于成为一个好的、正派的、有原则的社会成员意味着什么的一切背道而驰。”
在这张2016年的档案照片中，特朗普的支持者举着一面旗，上面写着“LGBTS支持特朗普”木屋共和党人是最著名的同性恋、双性恋和变性者保守团体。
此外，2010年至2013年担任项目总监的凯西·皮克(Casey Pick)表示，她将离开该团队。皮克在她的帖子中说，尽管她从2012年开始就与该组织保持距离，但亨利的聘用让她重新考虑。
挑选在脸书上写道亨利的手从一开始就被董事会和成员绑在一起...越来越符合过去对小木屋共和党人的成见:绝大多数同性恋男子对女性、跨性别美国人或男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者的经历漠不关心，他们缺乏财政或社会资源来保护自己免受他们经常否认甚至存在的歧视。”
皮克在文章的结尾写道:“你可以叫我任何名字——我知道人们会——但是请不要叫我小木屋共和党人。”。
这叶片 还报道称，华盛顿特区分会前主席罗伯特·特纳(Robert Turner)在获得认可后也退出了该组织。此外，该行报道称，董事会成员雷切尔·霍夫(Rachel Hoff)也辞职了。
小木屋共和党人在2016年选举中没有支持特朗普。根据叶片该组织选择不像往常一样等到共和党全国代表大会做出认可，因为一些董事会成员对该组织在2016年没有认可特朗普感到不安。
然而，木屋共和党发言人查尔斯·莫兰告诉记者叶片事实并非如此，他表示，这种认可“是应我们分会领导的要求而做出的”
“在我们的规章制度中，我们被要求调查我们的章节以征求他们的意见，”莫兰说。“结果几乎一致支持特朗普总统连任。我们在2016年拒绝支持，因此我们的分会领导希望确保他们的声音能被清楚地听到，并在2020年考虑到方向。”
LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS LOSE ANOTHER LEADER IN PROTEST AFTER TRUMP ENDORSEMENT
Earlier this month, the Log Cabin Republicans, a conservative LGBT organization, endorsed Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Since the endorsement, a number of members of the organization have resigned, including the group's executive director.
Friday, Jerri Ann Henry, the Log Cabin Republicans' first female leader, tendered her resignation, officially leaving the organization on Monday, the Washington Blade reported. Henry left after Robert Kabel, the chairman of the organization, and Jill Homan, the vice-chair, published an opinion piece in the Washington Post to announce that Donald Trump had received the Log Cabin Republicans' official endorsement in the 2020 presidential race.
"This is the party that Trump has helped make possible by moving past the culture wars that dominated the 1990s and early 2000s, in particular by removing gay rights as a wedge issue from the old Republican playbook," Kabel and Homan wrote. "And since taking office, President Trump has followed through on many of his commitments to the United States, including taking bold actions that benefit the LGBTQ community"
The August 15 announcement proved controversial within the organization. According to the Blade, Henry was banned from speaking publicly for the Log Cabin Republicans despite being the executive director.
Henry's decision to leave follows the resignation of Jennifer Horn, a board member who also left the group over the Trump endorsement. In a comment to the Post, Horn said she'd never endorse Trump.
"There is no world where I can sit down at the dining room table and explain to my children that I just endorsed Donald Trump for president," Horn said. "It is contrary to everything that I have ever taught them about what it means to be a good, decent, principled member of society."
In this file photo from 2016, Trump supporters hold up a flag reading "LGBTS for Trump." The Log Cabin Republicans are the most famous LGBT conservative group.
In addition, Casey Pick, who served as programs director from 2010 to 2013, said she was leaving the group. In her post, Pick said that though she had been distancing herself from the organization beginning in 2012, Henry's hiring had made her reconsider.
Pick wrote in a Facebook post that Henry's "hands have been tied from the beginning by a Board and membership that ... increasingly fulfils the stereotypes that used to be slung at Log Cabin Republicans: overwhelmingly gay men who are indifferent to the experiences of women, transgender Americans, or LGBT people who lack the financial or social resources to protect them from the discrimination that they so often deny even exists."
"Call me any name you please — and I know folks will — but please, don't call me a Log Cabin Republican," Pick wrote at the end of her post.
The Blade also reported that former president of the D.C. chapter, Robert Turner, also quit the organization after the endorsement. In addition, the outlet reported that board member Rachel Hoff resigned as well.
The Log Cabin Republicans did not endorse Trump during the 2016 election. According to the Blade, the organization chose not to wait until the Republican National Convention to make its endorsement as it usually does, because some board members were upset the group hadn't endorsed Trump in 2016.
However, Log Cabin Republican spokesperson Charles Moran told the Blade this was not the case, and said the endorsement "came at the request of our chapter leaders."
"In our bylaws, we are required to survey our chapters to solicit their input," Moran said. "The result was almost unanimous in support of endorsing President Trump for re-election. We declined to endorse in 2016, so our chapter leaders wanted to make sure their voices were heard clearly and direction taken into consideration for 2020."
