[orionsbelt]

Hilary Clinton was quoted as saying a marriage is always between a man and a woman and did not support gay marriage until like 2013.

Supposedly liberal California overturned the courts ruling on this issue with prop 8 in 2008.

I think Republicans, being conservatives, definitely took longer to move on this issue than Democrats, but I think this is an area where the country as a whole shifted a lot over the recent past.

[varelse]

Not that I like either party particularly much (and I might even hate the democrats more for being supposedly aligned with my views, but mostly seemingly into disagreeing with each other No True Scotsman style), but even as a straight dude, the Democrats are unambiguously better than the republicans on gay rights IMO.

What is funny (at least to me) though is the huge peak in activity on Grindr during republican conventions. To be fair, the republicans as a group are way better on nuclear power despite denying climate change.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9aeen8/cleveland-was-bomb...

[CydeWeys]

Yeah, but then she did end up actually supporting it (and that statement was a pathetic triangulation on her part, which is part of why I never liked her all that much anyway). Most of today's Republicans never supported it and just went along with it begrudgingly after the Supreme Court case was lost. Some are still fighting it.

It's very clear that the modern Democratic party overall was in favor of legalizing gay marriage and that the modern Republican party overall was against it. And that, to this day, Democrats are still much better on LGBT issues than Republicans.