It was a time when we were still agog over how much of Trump’s cabinet was openly homophobic.
This happened few days after new information emerged about the Trump administration’s plans to draw very narrow lines regarding sex and gender, and in the same time period as Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers. The queer community, he complained, is an unwelcoming place because his fellow gays are turned off when they find out he’s a Republican. As always, the snapshot was accompanied by the subject’s bio, which in this case included a quotation about how hard it was to be a gay Republican. In 2019, Queer Kentucky’s Instagram featured a snapshot of a young gay Kentuckian enjoying a drink on a Churchill Downs balcony.