There will never be an openly LGBTQ Republican Presidential nominee in my lifetime.
This is...way too definitive a statement to make on the issue. (especially since it is LGBTQ and LBTQ)
I am a middle-aged gay man and have lived in the United States for my entire life. I have experienced homophobia first hand. And I have had decades to observe the actions of the Republican Party and the attitude of their base. I stand by my statement.
Aren't you a young man in your 20s? You are flat-out saying the GOP will never nominate anyone who is any kind of LGBTI in the time period between now and 2070 (assuming you live to average lifespans for an American, high 70s). Really, I don't think that's a believable statement, especially given the fact SSM is uncontested law of the land now and by that token alone you've removed one very major barrier keeping otherwise R-leaning non-straights from considering the party.
Trump gained heavily among LGBTI relative to 2016, didn't he? (at least in the G part)
LOL, HELL NO. The last election I was a "young man in my 20s," Al Gore and George W. Bush were fighting over butterfly ballots and hanging chads in 2000!
The country has come a long way on gay rights from when I was a young man, but the GOP has not. The 2016 GOP party platform called same-sex marriage "an assault on the foundations of our society." The 2020 GOP party platform language maintained its staunch opposition to same-sex marriage and sympathetic language for conversion therapy.
Our laws and our government’s regulations should recognize marriage as the union of one man and one woman and actively promote married family life as the basis of a stable and prosperous society
The platform also supports “the right of parents to determine the proper medical treatment and therapy for their minor children,”
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/richard-grenell-addresses-rnc-gop-platform-still-opposes-gay-marriage-n1238272This is not much different from the crap they were saying about us when I was a young man in 1996 and 2000. So no, I don't see the GOP nominating an openly LGBTQ person in my lifetime. The idea is laughable.
Also, the idea that Trump made gains among LGBTQ in 2020 is questionable.
The National Exit Poll reported that 64 percent of LGBT voters favored Biden and 27 percent supported Trump. If that’s true, Trump received the highest percentage of LGBT support any Republican presidential candidate has ever received — and LGBT support for Trump doubled since 2016. However, AP VoteCast found that 73 percent of LGBT voters supported Biden and 25 percent Trump, more in line with years past.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/01/had-lgbt-voters-stayed-home-trump-might-have-won-2020-presidential-election/