Jimmy LaSalvia

The first time he attended, he was invited as the guest of a far right gay group.

Trump is doing something no one expects a Republican president to do: he’s governing like a Republican!

The founders of GOProud, the now defunct gay conservative Republican group, are publicly expressing regret that they gave Trump legitimacy as a candidate.

Jimmy LaSalvia, the co-founder and former executive director of GOProud, a U.S. political action group representing gay conservatives, announced Tuesday he was leaving the Republican party due in part to the “tolerance of bigotry in the GOP.”

The founding members of the gay conservatives group GoProud said Friday that are stepping away from their day-to-day roles at the organization they started four years ago as a grassroots alternative to the Log Cabin Republicans.

The Board of Directors of “GOProud,” the national organization of gay conservatives, voted Tuesday to endorse presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and said it was “prepared to commit significant resources” to ensure his victory.