Gays for Trump founder Peter Boykin files to run for North Carolina House seat

Peter Boykin, founder of Gays for Trump, speaks at the Old State Capitol in Raleigh in June 2017 as members of Identity Evropa and 3 Percenters film an approaching group of counter-protesters. (photo by McCausland)


Gays for Trump founder Peter Boykin is challenging an African-American Democrat in a bid to represent a Democratic-leaning NC House district in Greensboro.

An outspoken, gay Trump supporter and proprietor of MagaOneRadio.net, Boykin filed on Monday as a Republican in House District 58.

Amos Quick, a former Guilford County School Board member who is serving his first term, filed for the seat two weeks ago. A former Boys and Girls Club executive director, Quick now serves as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in High Point. Quick also faces a Democratic challenger in Kate Flippen, who is pursuing a master’s degree in public health at UNCG, according to an article in the News & Record.

“I’ve been telling people that in order to make change in the GOP and make sure we are making America great again we have to get involved,” Boykin told Triad City Beat. “It’s important that we get involved in midterms when voting is so low.”

Boykin and his husband David Smith, who is black, became fixtures on the 2016 campaign trail by showing up at Trump rallies wearing red MAGA hats and “Gays for Trump” shirts featuring a rainbow-themed stars and bars motif that flipped the assumption about who Trump supporters were supposed to be.

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