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    LZ Granderson: Republican hate for LGBTQ+ people fueled Mike Johnson's rise to be House speaker

    The older I get, the more reminders I see that Maya Angelou was right: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Take the new House speaker, Mike Johnson, for instance. He's been showing who he is since 1998, when he graduated from law school and started going after the LGBTQ+ community every chance he could. And I'm not just talking about trying to stop same-sex ...
    by LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times Oct 29, 2023 3 minutes
    Mike Johnson, surrounded by House Republicans, speaks after being elected as the speaker nominee during a GOP conference meeting in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in Washington, D.C..

    The older I get, the more reminders I see that Maya Angelou was right: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

    Take the new House speaker, Mike Johnson, for instance.

    He's been showing who he is since 1998, when he graduated from law school and started going after the LGBTQ+ community every chance he could. And I'm not just talking about trying to stop same-sex marriage, because let's

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