Owner of Advocate and OUT Magazine Donates to Anti-LGBTQ GOP Campaigns
Adam Levin, owner of Pride Media — the parent company that produces LGBTQ publications such as the Advocate and OUT Magazine — has broken a 2018 pledge to not make campaign donations to anti-LGBTQ candidates, The Wrap reports.
As first reported by LGBTQ Nation, Levin made donations of $2800 each to Senate Republican incumbents Thom Tillis (North Carolina) and Stave Daines (Montana). Both senators have staunchly anti-LGBTQ records — including votes to approve Trump-appointed anti-LGBTQ judges to the judiciary.
Levin, who isn't gay, was criticized in 2018 for donations to similarly — and much more virulently — anti-LGBTQ candidates such as House Rep. Devin Nunes (California), former House Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (California), and more. At that time, Nathan Coyle, the since-departed CEO of Pride Media, explained that Levin's donations were to candidate who were pro-Israel. But that such donations would stop if these candidates were also anti-LGBTQ. Coyle — an out gay man — left Pride Media in 2019. Pride Media has yet to comment on their owner's most recent anti-LGBTQ donations.