Jerri Ann Henry and the Republican Rollback of L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
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Being gay and Republican never felt like identities that were at odds to Jerri Ann Henry. She grew up in a conservative Christian family in Texas and was door-knocking for local politicians from the time she could walk. Later, she became a loud voice in the fight for marriage equality as the head of the group Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry and led the Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing gay conservatives. It seemed to her at the time that the party was moving toward acceptance of gay rights. But in recent years, with G.O.P. legislators backing anti-L.G.T.B.Q. laws in several states and the constitutional right to same-sex marriage potentially threatened after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Henry has found herself wondering whether she still has a place in the Republican Party — or any party. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)
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