GOProud: "I understand I won't have equal rights, but I also want to be filthy rich, and I think the
Republican ticket can get me there."
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They're gay, conservative and fearless. They're GOProud, the tea party activists who put economics ahead of same-sex marriage.
"I understand I won't have equal rights," Robert Stevens said. "But I also want to be filthy rich, and I think the Republican ticket can get me there."
GOProud dipped into the convention social scene Tuesday with Homocon 2012, a dance party for gay conservatives and supporters. Hundreds of guests — including Grover Norquist, Roger Stone, Breitbart's Dana Loesch, Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer and former congressman Mark Foley — packed into the Honey Pot nightclub, where dancers sported "Freedom Is Fabulous" T-shirts and Romney buttons were the accessory du jour.
Founded in 2009, GOProud is the only gay organization to endorse Romney. No problem with the convention platform opposing same-sex marriage?
"We'll have more people at our party tonight than who will read the Republican Party platform," Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia told us. "The left wants you to believe that conservatives hate gay people. But we invited the leaders of the conservative moment and the Republican Party to a gay bar tonight — and they're coming. This is the reality."
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