This Incoming Gay Congressman Is Coming for Marjorie Taylor Greene

If he has it his way, incoming Congressman-elect Robert Garcia of California will be prancing his way ideal past Georgia’s U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and leaving a single of the most anti-LGBTQ+ customers of Congress in his wake. Which is the information Garcia despatched when he posted a well-liked reaction video clip of NeNe Leakes stepping out to Saucy Santana’s tune “Stroll.”

“As a reminder, this will be me when I wander by Marjorie Taylor Greene in the Capitol future 7 days at orientation,” Garcia, the very first out homosexual immigrant elected to Congress, tweeted Friday afternoon.

On Saturday, soon after the tweet acquired a lot more than 100,000 likes and some ideal-wing dislike, Garcia tweeted, “Evidently, I’ve now began agitating the homophobic MAGA / Marjorie Taylor Greene stans. Y’all ain’t ready for the [confident attitude].”

The latest Extended Seaside, Calif., mayor has demonstrated to be a learn of the meme.

Monday, as the 1st 7 days of new member orientation kicked off, earlier mentioned a gif of a hunky Superman who winks at the digicam, Garcia tweeted, “Me conference all the new Republican freshman at orientation this morning.”

Garcia’s on the web self esteem in currently being a homosexual man is by structure since he’s very pleased of who he is.

Garcia spoke with The Advocate Monday from the noisy halls of Congress between new member orientation sessions. 

“[“Marjorie Taylor Greene] is any individual that has zero fascination in enabling gay men and women to live comprehensive life, so I feel she shouldn’t be in Congress,” Garcia says. “I imagine she represents just what is actually wrong in our state.”

He adds, “I am absolutely sure she’s not going to like me extremely substantially.”

Simply because Greene has exhibited hatred towards immigrants (he immigrated from Peru as a child) and the LGBTQ+ group, and Garcia signifies the two, he says her mind-set toward him will be a reflection upon herself.

“I am very pleased of who I am and appear ahead to uplifting those people difficulties, and she has received to be termed out each solitary day for her bullshit and for the lies she tells about our neighborhood and for the hurt she does towards gay people and immigrants,” he says.

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He provides that it can be the occupation of Democrats like him to be trustworthy with men and women and force forward favourable ideas and legislative proposals to reward the country.

For example, he states, Democrats must be intense in getting on disinformation, misinformation, and science denialism by Republicans on matters from COVID-19 vaccines to local climate transform.

“We have to be intense in having on the severe right wing that is not genuinely concentrated on fact. We have got to uplift the real truth and be truthful all the time,” he suggests.

“I am fully commited to creating positive that we phone out the extreme Republicans, the severe much-suitable conservatives that are intent on reworking our nation into some Trump authoritarian put that is not welcoming for most of the individuals of the place.”

Garcia suggests that as any individual who was not born with American citizenship but who earned it, he understands what patriotism and love of state suggest.

“It is really about serving to people today in your country, about loving your place so a great deal that you basically want to assist some others and do fantastic. It can be not about ‘America first’ or individualism,” he says. “It really is about aiding men and women.”

A person detail he’s grateful for enable with as he will get acquainted with his new D.C. digs is a pleasurable group with whom to view RuPaul’s Drag Race.

The self-explained RuPaul uber-lover states that even though one particular of the highlights of his life was earning the ability to stand for his group in Congress, an additional bit of enjoyment came a close 2nd.

The day soon after the election, Garcia tweeted a display shot of a tweet about him that RuPaul had retweeted.

“So @RuPaul just retweeted me and I’m having a moderate worry assault,” he wrote. He adopted that tweet up with “[Please] never decide me when I’m at drag brunch and drag race check out functions in D.C.”

Garcia suggests that the tweet obtained him invited to many watch events, which he appreciates.

“One particular, they [invitations] are welcome,” he claims. “I have had some invitations which I am enthusiastic about. I am a massive RuPaul lover and drag stan in common, so I am enthusiastic about that.”