It seems like the gay is a wedge issue everywhere:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/pedro-sanchez-spain-general-election-hard-right“In this most recent campaign he skillfully played the anti-fascist card, harnessing the shock of the far-right Vox party’s entry into a series of municipal and regional coalition governments to mobilise progressive voters. As pride flags were being removed from city halls across the country and gender equality initiatives suppressed, Sánchez framed the vote as a binary choice between a similar hard-right coalition at a national level and his own brand of moderate social democracy.”
Unless it’s Russia or Serbia or Hungary, messing with the gay is bad for your political health it seems (here’s looking at you, DeSantis). Praise Jesus.