The Texas Republican Party has rejected the LGBT group’s application for a booth at the convention at least since 1998.

The notoriously anti-LGBT Texas Republican Party has once again denied the state’s Log Cabin Republicans chapter a booth at the Texas GOP convention, as it has for at least two decades.

The State Republican Executive Committee voted Saturday to exclude the LGBT group from this summer’s convention, the Austin American-Statesman reports. It has denied the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas’s request to participate at least since 1998, according to the paper. Log Cabin was the only applicant rejected this year.

“Nothing happens overnight,” Log Cabin state chairman Michael Baker told the American-Statesman. “I’d hoped by 2018 we could have been a lot further than we are, but here we are.” He said he was “disappointed but not surprised.”

The Texas Republican Party has been even more intense in its anti-LGBT rhetoric than the national party. In 1998, in rejecting the Log Cabin request, “a party spokesman said the group was as unwelcome as the Ku Klux Klan,” the American-Statesman reports. In recent years, the party platform has condemned homosexuality and endorsed “ex-gay” therapy.

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