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    MAGA gays feel left out of LGBT movement

    By Jon Levine, Doree Lewak,

    6 hours ago

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    They’re here, they’re queer — and they’re not invited.

    Trump-loving LGBT conservatives say they are marching to the tune of their own drum after finding themselves ostracized by the increasingly left leaning gay rights movement.

    Mark Dorman, a retired teacher from Hell’s Kitchen, said he has been all but blacklisted from the Atlas Social Club, his local gay bar, since he spoke positively about the former president there last summer.

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    Brave pals John McGuigan, left, and Anthony Tolve, right, at the 2024 LGBT Pride parade in New York City. Jon Levine
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    Atlas Social Club did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.

    “I’m almost anti-gay,” a frustrated Dorman, 64, told The Post. “It’s an embarrassment to see this kind of behavior… I’d really invite them to go to Iran or Gaza. See what that does for you. See how fast they throw you in prison or kill you.”

    “It feels like the Soviet Union, Marxist environment now,” he said. “With the gay community, they feel that Republicans on the far right have an anti-gay thing. Yes, they have a certain religious belief. They have a right to say they don’t like that lifestyle.

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    The signs were clearly evident years ago — when his politics nearly got him kicked to the curb by his own hubby, Dorman said.

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    LGBT conservatives say they don’t have a place in the gay rights movement today. Getty Images

    “When Trump won, my husband was so upset he wanted me out of our apartment. The rage was unexplainable — I mean honest rage. I could not understand this emotion in him and why anyone would let a political vote destroy or nearly destroy a marriage,” he said.

    The marriage survived … “but we don’t talk politics,” Dorman said.

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    Brave pals Anthony Tolve and John McGuigan hit the chaotic New York City’s Pride Parade June 30 with rainbow Trump flags, earning them deathly cold stares and jeers from revelers, one who flipped them the bird, they said.

    “There was definitely a lot of hate,” said Tolve, 45. “A lot of rich white women with children who feel inclined to come up to you and face off with you.”

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    In recent years the LGBT movement has embraced many causes alien to their original mission, critics say. Getty Images

    “I was at the beach the other day and I was booed off the beach, a guy started kicking sand on me. This was at Riis Park,” Tolve added.

    The community has always leaned liberal, but the movement has increasingly embraced causes unrelated to gay rights, further alienating conservatives. The rainbow flag, a decades long symbol of gay rights, has increasingly been supplanted by the “Progress Flag” — which ads a menagerie of new colors paying homage to the movement.

    “It’s an aesthetic and design monstrosity that no gay man should approve of. It’s a disgrace to our sexual orientation,” said Andrew Sullivan, a longtime gay cultural critic who now runs a popular substack said of the new banner.

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