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Free Press correspondent Ben Kawaller, a centrist Democrat, recently spoke to a gay GOP group. Here’s what he said.
By Ben Kawaller
06.05.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Last Thursday, I was invited to speak at a mixer hosted by the Los Angeles chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay GOP advocacy group. The planned speaker for the event, the CEO of the Israeli-American Council, had been stymied by weather in Milwaukee, and evidently I, a gay centrist Democrat, was the best shot they had at a last-minute replacemen…

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Ben Kawaller
Ben Kawaller's videos and humor writing have appeared in The Times of London, The New York Post, The Free Press, LA Magazine, Racket News, The American Bystander, The Advocate, and Salon, among others. He lives in New York.
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