An inside look at the International LGBT Leaders Conference and what really goes on
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 10, 2017 — Walmart, AT&T, and Comcast were among the major corporate sponsors of the International LGBT Leaders Conference held December 8-10 to promote homosexual- and transgender-affirming laws, abortion, illegal immigration, and other “progressive” Democratic agendas.
The conference, put on by the Gay and Lesbian
Victory Institute — also known simply as the Victory Institute — was first
envisioned as a recruiting event and strategy session to help place
LGBTQ activists in a sympathetic Hillary Clinton administration.
But with Donald Trump's surprise victory on
November 8, the event turned into a series of panel discussions on how to
resist a Trump presidency and GOP-controlled Congress. The conference was
hosted by the Washington Hilton Hotel, where President Ronald Reagan and three
other men were shot in an assassination attempt in 1981.
LifeSiteNews attended the Victory Institute
conference, which drew more than 500 homosexual, bisexual and “transgendered”
lawmakers as well as allied political and corporate activists from across the
globe. This is the first of several articles on the conference, which
offered a glimpse into President Obama’s success in pushing his LGBTQ policies
in the United States and abroad and how difficult it will be to
overturn them if President-elect Trump is so inclined.
Victory Institute is associated with the Gay and
Lesbian Victory Fund, a political action committee
that works to elect openly homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered individuals
to public office.
Among Victory
Fund’s co-founders in
1991 is homosexual activist and major Democratic Party fundraiser Terry Bean,
who in 2014 at age 66 was arrested by Portland, Oregon, police along with his
25-year-old ex-boyfriend, Kiah Lawson, on charges of sodomizing a 15-year-old
boy. As LifeSiteNews reported, Bean, who is also a co-founder
of the LGBTQ lobby group Human Rights Campaign,
was charged with two felony charges of third-degree sodomy and one count of
third-degree sex abuse.
The sex abuse charges against Bean were
dropped after
the boy fled and refused to testify following “an offer by Bean to end the case
with a so-called 'civil compromise' in which Bean would pay the young man
$225,000 and avoid a criminal trial,” Willamette
Week reported.
A transcript of
a police interview with Lawson reveals that Bean reportedly knew the boy he was
“hooking up” with sexually was underage and tried to coach him to say he was
18.
A corporate-funded
"gay insiders" army
Far more than on the abortion issue, in the
LGBTQ "culture war" the homosexual-transgender lobby has a huge
advantage over its pro-family opponents in both funding and the number of
fully engaged activists.
As homosexual power grew especially through
two Obama terms, these conferences have gained more and more funding and
sponsorships from large corporations, which have embraced the LGBTQ movement’s
paradigm of viewing homosexualism and transgenderism strictly from a “civil
rights” perspective.
The Victory Institute conference was no
exception. Most speaker panels were sponsored by a major corporation whose
representative gave opening remarks touting that company's commitment to LGBTQ
issues.
Here are some of the themes observed at the
International LGBT Leaders conference:
- Openly “gay” and
homosexually “married” American ambassadors — all men — discuss how living
"out" proudly and publicly with their same-sex “husband” changes
minds in the foreign nations in which they serve. They understand their
role in normalizing “gay marriage” and the immoral homosexual lifestyle
abroad.
- LGBTQ activists in the
military discuss how they pushed for open homosexuality and then open
transgenderism in the Armed Forces, and how transgender activists used key
meetings with the Pentagon’s top brass to advance their gender-confusion
agenda (without Congress).
- Why homosexual and
transgender activists think it will be difficult to “roll back” many
pro-LGBT policies enacted by President Obama — even transgenderism in the
military.
- Representatives of major
corporations (all conference sponsors) discuss how they are crucial to
stopping “religious freedom” legislation at the state level. Corporate
power is now central to LGBTQ lobbying nationwide.
- Homosexual (illegal)
“immigration” activists apply homosexual activist “coming out” and
victimhood tactics to their push for amnesty — comparing coming out as “gay”
or “transgender” to coming out as an “undocumented” immigrant.
- How LGBTQ activists work
hand-in-hand with other “progressive” agendas including
abortion-on-demand, amnesty/“rights” for illegal immigrants, gun control
and radical feminism — almost exclusively working with Democrats. When
corporate America funds the LGBTQ movement, it mostly finances the left.
- LGBTQ activists adore
President Obama for so aggressively pushing homosexual, bisexual and
transgender policies at all levels of the federal government — and across
the world by leveraging American power and his bully pulpit. Obama gave
LGBTQ activists almost everything they wanted. He is a big part of the
success of the “gay” and “transgender” revolution in the United States.
But will Trump and the Republicans coming to power in Washington have the
will to reverse it in any significant way?
“Gender-Neutral
Restrooms” at Hosting Hotel
As if to serve as a bizarre testimony to the
wider LGBTQ lobby’s commitment to “transgenderism” — dubbed “gender confusion”
by pro-family critics — Victory Institute organizers turned the two public
restrooms nearest the main speaking venues at the Washington Hilton into
“Gender-Neutral Restrooms.”
Outside on a set of doors to the main
conference venue and 10 feet from the main ground-floor restroom stood a white
sign with black letters reading “GENDER NEUTURAL [sic] RESTROOMS” with
“neutral” misspelled. Next to that was a large, hanging Victory Institute
banner with the word “Restrooms” atop the name of the conference (see photo
above). Interestingly, the same misspelled version of the word “Neutral” was
also displayed on a sign outside another smaller restroom nearby designated as
“Gender Neutural” [sic].
To confirm the contrived genderlessness of the
conference bathrooms, the hotel covered up the familiar “male” and “female”
signs that normally adjoin the entrances to each restroom, leaving two blank
squares instead. This allowed male and female attendees (or anyone) to use any
restroom they wanted. (Other LGBTQ organizations like the National LGBTQ Task
Force use similar “bathroom activism” at their events, as observed by this
reporter.)
As a “cisgender” (normally
“gendered”) heterosexual man needing to use the facilities, I wondered which
“gender neutral” restroom to use, hoping to end up in the one with standing
urinals for men. I nervously veered to the restroom on the left, but seeing
someone in a dress exiting, quickly turned around and went into the restroom on
the right. The curious thing is that, judging by “his” (?) appearance and
big-boned frame, it might well have been an actual man underneath that dress.
Corporate Sponsors
On Sunday, a day after the Victory Institute
conference was over, a visit to the same Washington Hilton Hotel restroom found
the traditional “male” and “female” signs restored to their proper places
adjoining the entrances of each sex’s bathroom.
Corporate Sponsors
The following were major corporate sponsors of
the International LGBT Leaders Conference 2016: AARP, AT&T, Altria
(cigarette and tobacco products), Coca-Cola, Comcast, Dow, Gilead (drug
manufacturer), Pfizer, PG&E, Southwest Airlines, State Farm, Toyota, Union
Pacific, Walmart, and Xylem (water technology).
A future article will report on how so many
major corporations are pushing LGBTQ policies to the point of becoming
culture-war power players in stopping social conservative legislation. That
includes laws designed to protect the freedom of citizens and small businesses
not to participate in homosexual "marriages" and other aspects of the
gay-trans agenda, according to the dictates of their conscience.
As the reader will observe from these reports,
homosexual and transgender activists lean heavily left and toward the
Democratic Party. No panelists were seen speaking in support of Donald Trump or
the Republican Party, and no homosexual Republicans, much less traditional GOP
conservatives, were represented.
Two days after Trump’s electoral win, Victory
Fund President & CEO Aisha C. Moodie-Mills issued a statement that
read in part, “Today I am heartbroken that racist, xenophobic, sexist and
transphobic demagoguery won last night’s presidential election.” Time will
tell whether major corporations ostensibly serving consumers of all persuasions
— from far-left progressives to tea party conservatives — will pay a price for
financing and aligning so closely with leftist LGBTQ politics of this sort.
