Jtice Kennedy’s legacy the gay rights cisns | Constutn Center

Contents:

• MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND
• JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER
• EXCLIVE: THE TIMATE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN JFK AND HIS GAY IEND
• IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?
• JFK GRANDSON JACK SCHLOSSBERG DID NOT COME OUT AS GAY
• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• JTICE KENNEDY’S LEGACY THE GAY RIGHTS CISNS
• INSI JFK’S INTIMATE RELATNSHIP WH GAY BT FRIEND WHO HAD HIS OWN ROOM IN THE WHE HOE
• JASON KENNEDY SWERVED ANDY COHEN'S "GAY SPECTM" QUTN IN VERY AWKWARD INTERVIEW

MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND

Kennedy may have had an timate relatnship wh a gay iend om his prep school days, claims btsellg thor Jerry Oppenheimer, who has wrten two books about the Kennedys.

Kennedy and Billgs met 1933 their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclive Connecticut prep school. David Pts, the thor of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship, told him: “Lem was a gay man and he had a 14-year-old, good-lookg kid livg his hoe wh him and there had been mors bee of that. Kennedy up close and personal wh a woman other than Jackie shows him and his attorney general brother, Robert, g on to curvaceo Marilyn Monroe at a party, reports Daily the photo of Kennedy zyg up to Monroe is the bt known of him wh one of his purported lovers, other far ls public snapshots show the flip si of Kennedy's timate the snapshots is one that shows a handsome pre-printial Kennedy sunng himself, sprawled on a chaise at Patriarch Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach seated close to Kennedy is his shirtls, tanned and oiled bt iend forever, his very gay chum, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" JFK is legendarily known as a master womanizer who equently cheated on his first lady, his cur three-s long timate iendship wh Billgs suggts more than a simple met 1933 their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, the exclive Connecticut prep school, when both were teenagers, workg together on their class's yearbook, and Billgs stantly beme attracted sexually and otherwise to the handsome scn of Ameri's self-styled royal very timate relatnship would last om those school days to Billgs even havg a room the Kennedy Whe Hoe - distrsg for the first lady - to the day of Kennedy's of the most credible acunts of the Kennedy-Billgs relatnship was told by David Pts, who I terviewed extensively for my book, Robert F.

JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER

"Billgs, who was a year olr than Jack Kennedy, ma his sire known while the two were still at Choate a bizarre love note, penned on a piece of toilet paper that uld be disposed of easily to avoid crimatn at a time when homosexualy was Billgs' missive is long gone, a startled Kennedy rpond, "Please don't wre to me on toilet paper anymore.

"But Kennedy's reactn to Billgs gay e-on soon changed and he beme more amenable to his iend's advanc, acrdg to the wrer Lawrence J.

EXCLIVE: THE TIMATE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN JFK AND HIS GAY IEND

Photo / Getty ImagQuirk immediately pegged Billgs as gay, notg his "high, screechy lgh, " and "high nasal whe of a voice. Photo / Getty ImagWhen their brother Bobby married Ethel Skakel a royal-like weddg Greenwich, Connecticut, the stnchly nservative republin and seemgly homophobic Skakels let their feelgs about Billgs' gayns be 's alholic, philanrg brother, Gee Skakel Jr., actually booted Billgs the a** at the church, knockg him to the Gee Terrian, the alholic hband of Ethel Kennedy's alholic, pill-poppg sister, Geeann, told me terviews for my book "The Other Mrs.

IS ANTHONY KENNEDY ‘THE FIRST GAY JTICE’?

Knowg the kd of timate relatnship that he had wh the print, advisers were ncerned about polil repercsns, and even Cold War was still ragg, and there was fear Rsian agents might e the iendship agast Vidal, the wrer who claimed he viewed homosexualy as normal as heterosexualy, disparaged the JFK-Billgs relatnship durg the Kennedy once lled Billgs the "chief f****t at Camelot.

" As for Kennedy himself, Vidal asserted that the print "felt que fortable the pany of homosexuals as long as they were smart enough to hold his tert.

"After the assassatn of RFK 1968, the flamboyant Billgs transferred his obssive affectn for Jack, to handsome teenager Bobby Pts, the thor of "Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship, " told me, "Lem was a gay man and he had a 14-year-old, good-lookg kid livg his hoe wh him and there had been mors bee of that.

JFK GRANDSON JACK SCHLOSSBERG DID NOT COME OUT AS GAY

As his gay Svengali who guid and lerally tried to ntrol every aspect of Bobby Jr. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- For wrer John Aravosis, Edward "Ted" Kennedy's early support for gay rights was very important to a muny that has faced a history steeped discrimatn.

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

"On gay rights, he was absurdly helpful for a straight senator back before gay rights were popular, " he said. Aravosis, who ns AmeriBlog -- a polil se that often foc on gay rights issu -- said was Kennedy who sparked his tert the movement.

"For me was particularly personal sce he gave me my start gay rights, " he said. " Unabashedly liberal, Kennedy had a long track rerd support of gay rights. Jarrett Barrs -- and g Print of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn praised the Democratic senator's work.

JTICE KENNEDY’S LEGACY THE GAY RIGHTS CISNS

"In those early years, his support may have turned heads but [that] didn't dampen his support -- and eventually helped change hearts and mds about LGBT [Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr] equaly the Senate and around the untry, " he said a statement.

" Sce his ath warm wish and remembranc have poured om the gay muny around the untry.

INSI JFK’S INTIMATE RELATNSHIP WH GAY BT FRIEND WHO HAD HIS OWN ROOM IN THE WHE HOE

Solmone's group has repeatedly given Kennedy a 100 percent on s ngrsnal srerds for supportg gay rights. Kennedy was a key sponsor of the 2009 Matthew Shepard Hate Crim Preventn Act, named after young gay man who was killed. The policy, which is still place, end the ary's practice of askg potential service members if they were gay, but required the dismissal of openly gay service members.

In 2004, Kennedy lent his voice to the gay marriage bate 2004 when the Massachetts Supreme Court approved of same-sex marriage. There was ltle doubt that later that morng, this quietly powerful jtice would be havg a major say the legal, polil, and social path of gay rights movg forward. M., Kennedy kicked off the public ssn wh his eloquent majory lg strikg down a key part of a feral law that blocks a range of benefs for legally married gay and lbian upl.

“If Bill Clton was ‘the first black print, ’ Anthony Kennedy has now firmly secured his place history as ‘the first gay jtice, ’” said Michael Dorf, a law profsor at Cornell Universy and a former Kennedy law clerk.

JASON KENNEDY SWERVED ANDY COHEN'S "GAY SPECTM" QUTN IN VERY AWKWARD INTERVIEW

“Jtice Kennedy mak clear that he not only accepts, but wel the task of wrg majtic opns affirmg the digny of gay persons and upl. He has wrten majory cisns upholdg rights to homosexual upl, unrage killers, and foreign fighters held by the U.