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Chadwick Moore, a gay conservative writer who has written for Out, The New York Times and The New York Post, said liberals have created histrionic, myopic narratives about a nefarious Trump administration that dont comport with reality. People on the left are really truly convinced that there is some sort of fascist element in power right now, he said.

I think theres just such little understanding. I do believe that most rank-and-file lefties, most comrades, are really truly convinced that there is some sort of fascist element in power right now,

And I do think theyre fighting for peoples lives. Its the just the level of misinformation and misunderstanding and the lack of inquisitiveness of wanting to learn more, its so much easier to be emotional and to react, rather than to learn, Moore said in a Salon Talks interview. Most people dont ever leave their politics that they sort of develop when theyre starting to think about these sort of things. And to do it really takes reason and thinking and criticizing and looking at whats going on. That happens less and less these days, it seems.

An Illinois native who came out at age 15, Mooresaid theremany similarities between coming out in past generations and announcing conservative leanings today, particularly in a deeply liberal place like New York City.

You know when I came out as gay, I suddenly had this whole support network, he said. Of course, the liberals come to you and all these new friends and it sort of becomes this political issue. I got all new friends and it was just a really wonderful, lovely experience. Coming out as conservative has been both that, but initially it was scary because you know, much like being gay 50 years ago, you face employment discrimination if you come out as a Trump supporter, you lose friends and family members, people get angry with you. Politics are so violent at the moment. So that was really, really scary, and I wasnt sure what was going to happen to me when I decided to make this announcement.

Moore talked about how the conservative community welcomed him. He also mentioned that he sees conservatives as inclusive and tolerant.

[S]imilar to coming out gay, Ive had this whole new world thats opened up to me, all these wonderful people coming forward. Also that same sense of newness and excitement for things that are ahead, Moore said. And not all conservative are going to agree with me on this, but the way I see it, I like the term conservative as this umbrella term for essentially a very diverse coalition of political thought: the religious right, the Tea Party and the establishment republicans, and libertarians and classical liberals.

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Gay conservative: Liberals are misguided in thinking there's some sort of fascist element in power - Salon