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- IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- WHO ARE THE 10 CLOSETED GAY REPUBLINS CONGRS?
- TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, NONTED MAR RUB ABOUT LLG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE A ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’
- THE ARE THE REPUBLIN SENATORS WHO WILL VOTE TO CODIFY GAY MARRIAGE AS A RIGHT
IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
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He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. Joe Ziegler, a special agent wh the tax agency for 13 years, scribed himself as a "gay Democrat married to a man" and said he cid to e forward spe his personal polics bee he believ "no one should be above the law regardls of your polil affiliatn.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
"I equate this to the experience and feelgs I enuntered when g out [as gay], " said Ziegler. In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job.
“People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. "The gays, they're tryg to n my senate office, " the meme reads, along wh an image of actor Jennifer Coolidge, who starred the namake h HBO seri and whose character famoly said, "The gays, they're tryg to murr me!
Ziegler, whose name was whheld closed-door terview transcripts released last month by Republins, said Wednday that he cid to e forward publicly “not as a hero or a victim, ” but as a married, gay Democrat “pelled to disclose the tth. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBehd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G. 11, 2022WASHINGTON — When the Senate passed landmark legislatn last month to mandate feral regnn for same-sex marriag, the vote was ld as a rare moment of bipartisanship at a time of ep polil polarizatn the the narrow aln of 12 Republins that joed every Democrat support of the measure — which cleared Congrs on Thursday wh fal passage the Hoe, sendg to Print Bin — did not sprg up spontaneoly a groundswell of cross-party the scen, a group of fluential Republin donors and operativ, cludg some of the party’s most proment gay lears wh long experience proddg their party to embrace L.
WHO ARE THE 10 CLOSETED GAY REPUBLINS CONGRS?
Senators that backg would give them a polil quiet work helps expla how a bill to ensure regnn of same-sex marriag across the untry went om beg the subject of an electn-season polil manver that few expected to be enacted to an iative embraced by a cisive majory of senators, and an unexpected victory for the gay rights movement that will be one of the fal acts of the Democratic-ntrolled Congrs. Bh’s mpaign manager 2004 and a former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee who me out as gay 2010, and Centerle Actn, a centrist nonprof fund by him and Regald Brown, a lawyer Mr. ImageKen Mehlman, seen 2010, has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly Heisler/The New York TimMr.
Mehlman, who has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly polici, also leaned on a work of Republins that he enlisted 2019 to urge the Supreme Court to clare that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicly prohibs discrimatn agast gay men, lbians and transgenr people the workplace. Tmp; Ben Gsberg, the proment Republin lawyer; Mary Cheney, the openly gay and married dghter of former Vice Print Dick Cheney; Tom Ridge, the former homeland secury secretary unr Mr. More about Annie KarniA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 28 of the New York edn wh the headle: Proment Gay Republins Helped Smooth Way for the Marriage Bill.
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TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, NONTED MAR RUB ABOUT LLG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE A ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’
Loose on the 'til then unmolted gay muny, the first time-- though not the last-- they would be spegoated by an amb and crooked headg over to the Library I saw a New York Tim story about a ls socially divisive reactn to gay people, not California, where we are currently burned by a rpt and Neanrthal Republin ernor, but om Massachetts, where the state legislature stck down attempts by right-wg loons driven sane by hollow terpretatns of Bronze Age superstns, to outlaw same-sex marriage.
I gus isn't a cince that Massachetts also boasts one of only two openly gay members of Congrs, Barney Frank (whose district, by the way, has a smaller percentage of gay people than the state general) their May issue OUT Magaze featured "The Power 50" (they're obssed wh ane lists) and as part of that they terviewed Barney: "Out On The Hill-- Comg Out Didn't Stop Barney Frank From Beg One of Ameri's Most Powerful Policians. Mike's web se, blogActive, mak a hab of exposg the worst of the hypocr, the on wh the nsistently homophobic votg rerds who also participate closeted gay sex, the only kd Republins approve is ultra ut. He wants multiple sworn statements om participants and clear pictur before he'll out anyone, no matter how vicly anti-gay they are.
THE ARE THE REPUBLIN SENATORS WHO WILL VOTE TO CODIFY GAY MARRIAGE AS A RIGHT
'Shocked': Gay senator nonted Rub as he lled bill 'stupid waste of time' elevator. Tammy Baldw, the Wisns Democrat who is also the first known gay polician elected to the US Senate.
One has a gay son.
They were lobbied by their lleagu, by proment gay donors and operativ their party, and by relig groups who secured stronger relig liberty Jiang/The New York TimSenator Roy Blunt of MissouriOne of only two Republins learship to vote for the bill, Mr. Burr voted to repeal the policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” which barred openly gay and bisexual people om servg the ary, llg the policy “outdated.