BUZZFEED – GOProud, the bombastic group for gay conservatives and their allies, is going to be going through some major changes in the coming months, as the two co-founders, executive director Jimmy LaSalvia and senior strategist Chris Barron, plan to step back from their day-to-day roles with the group as a new executive director is selected.
“It’s time. We don’t want it to get stale,” LaSalvia said, who along with Barron founded GOProud four years ago as a more conservative, grassroots alternative to the Log Cabin Republicans.
“The reason why GOProud has been so successful is because we have brought new ideas and new energy to the arena. At some point, what was the outside-the-box thinking all of the sudden becomes the box, and so now, that’s the way that GOProud does things. It’s our box. It seems crazy to everyone else, but, for us, it’s like standard operating procedure. It’s time for someone else to come in and shake things up,” Barron added.
GOProud has become known in that time for its outrageous moves and its in-your-face style. From hosting Ann Coulter at its first Homocon party in New York City to Barron calling prominent conservative DC attorney Cleta Mitchell a “nasty bigot,” GOProud has stayed in the news while making in-roads into the conservative movement in a way that no one had done before.
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