Mike Pence's New Chief of Staff Once Called Gay Sex "Repugnant"
Old tweets are out — it’s all about old college newspaper columns now!
Marc Short, Mike Pence’s incoming chief of staff, has a history of of disparaging queer people, especially those living with HIV, the Daily Beast reports. In an early 1990s column for his college newspaper, Short called gay sex “repugnant” and blamed it for the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Short wrote the column in response to an interview in the school’s newspaper, The Ring-Tum Phi, with an HIV-positive alumnus of his school, Washington & Lee University in Lexington City, Virginia. Short wrote that while he felt “sympathy” for the alumnus, “that does not mean that we glorify homosexuals' repugnant practices of frequent anal intercourse nor should we consider them brave for coming out of the closet.”
He then said that gay men who who “pursue unhealthy lifestyles and engage in high risk sexual behavior, specifically anal intercourse, may very well end up like Mr. Wright.”
In the column, Short also called LGBTQ+ activism around HIV/AIDS a “propaganda campaign ignited by gay activists and carelessly perpetuated by journalists whose intent is to scare all heterosexuals into believing they are prime targets for contraction of the disease.”
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