Gay Republican leader Jimmy LaSalvia has quit the GOP, citing frustration with party leaders for failing to combat anti-homosexual feeling."Today, I joined the ranks of unaffiliated voters," LaSalvia, the co-founder of GOProud wrote on his blog , Monday.LaSalvia said he has worked hard "to create an atmosphere on the right where conservatives can openly support gay Americans and even support same-sex marriage."In that effort, we have won," he said. "But there is more work to do to root out the anti-gay and other forms of bigotry in the party."So I changed my voter registration today — "No Party," he wrote.LaSalvia, 43, has been active in trying to get gay issues raised within the GOP, first with the Log Cabin Republicans — which he left because he thought they had drifted too far to the left — and then with GOProud."I am every bit as conservative as I've always been, but I just can't bring myself to carry the Republican label any longer," he wrote, saying he disagrees with "the big-government 'conservatives' who run the party now."LaSalvia opened his blog-post with the latest report on party affiliation from Gallup, which showed that in 2013 a record high 42 percent of Americans identified as independents.