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This article presents a multimodal critical discourse analysis of #GaysForTrump on Twitter as a discursive
formation within Trumpism with distinct subject positions connected to specific acts of identification, libidinal investments, and
a homonationalist allegiance to the United States, constructed as a homotopia for cisgender, white gay men. Trumpism is a
political formation with its own discursive and structural dynamics that we argue have bred a specific strain of homonationalism
worth unpacking in its specificity. Our main objective was to understand how identifying as gay was articulated as commensurate
with Donald Trump’s particular brand of transgressive and masculinist white nationalism. We identified three overarching
discursive strategies: the appropriation of the “coming out” narrative to validate the #GaysForTrump victimization experience; the
construction of conservative gay masculinity as desirable; and the articulation of a sexual geopolitics that legitimates the
extreme xenophobia of Trumpism.