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Vice Print Dick Cheney, whose dghter Mary is a lbian, drew cricism om both proponents and fo of gay marriage Tuday after he distanced himself om Print Bh’s ll for a nstutnal amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

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BH’S DGHTER, A BREAK, ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE

Barbara Bh, Former Print Gee W. Bh&#039;s Dghter, Lends Support To Gay Marriage * george bush gay daughter *

Bh, will endorse same-sex marriage on Tuday, publicly breakg ranks wh a father who, as print, phed for a nstutnal amendment banng such Bh, 29, has taped a vio llg on New York to legalize gay marriage.

EX-PRINT BH'S DGHTER SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

Barbara Bh films a spot for the Human Rights Campaign supportg gay marriage. * george bush gay daughter *

Gay rights advot have been quick to seize on the generatnal spl as evince that the acceptance of same-sex marriage is bld to party affiliatn and fay valu.

But for years, those close to her say, she has surround herself wh gay iends — at Yale, where she was an unrgraduate, and New York Cy, where she worked the sign world.

Bh habed was filled wh openly gay stunts and unbothered by qutns about sexualy. The Human Rights Campaign, a natnal gay rights group that ma the vio, plans to show Saturday at an annual gala New York Cy.

BH DGHTER BARBARA COM OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

What was like to be gay and Republin at a time of gay-bashg polics? * george bush gay daughter *

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 14 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dghter Of Bh Endors Gay Marriage. Bh's dghter Barbara has announced her support for gay marriage, breakg wh her father on a key social issue but jog her mother and other proment Republins who back same-sex Human Rights Campaign, a natnal gay rights anizatn, released a vio Tuday featurg the 29-year old Bh, a New York rint who ns Global Health Corps, a nonprof public health anizatn.

A bill legalizg gay marriage passed the New York state Assembly 2009 but was feated the state Senate that year.

GEE W. BH’S DGHTER BARBARA ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE

Barbara Bh: The Human Rights Campaign, a natnal gay rights anizatn, released a vio Tuday featurg Bh, a New York rint who ns Global Health Corps, a nonprof public health anizatn. * george bush gay daughter *

Barbara Bh's advocy for gay marriage is a sharp parture om her father's posn on the former print was an opponent of same-sex marriage and 2004 announced his support for a proposed nstutnal amendment to outlaw . But his wife, former first lady Lra Bh, has said she supports gay marriage as do former Vice Print Dick Cheney, whose dghter Mary is gay.

GEE BH'S DGHTER, BARBARA, SPEAKS OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE

Advot say they approached Bh to appear the vio after she attend a fundraiser for the Amerin Foundatn for Equal Rights, an anizatn created to challenge California's Proposn 8, a 2008 ballot iative that stck down gay marriage that state.

Barbara Bh's tw sister, Jenna Bh Hager, has not dited her posn on gay marriage.

"Barbara Bh has close ti to the gay muny through her work the sign world, The New York Tim reports:Barbara Bh, who started a nonprof group foced on global health, rarely speaks out on Amerin polil issu, makg her foray to the same-sex marriage bate so strikg. But for years, those close to her say, she has surround herself wh gay iends -- at Yale, where she was an unrgraduate, and New York Cy, where she worked the sign world. "Wh her statement, Barbara Bh jos high-profile polil dghter Meghan McCa as a voice agast the sort of gay marriage bans advoted Print Bh and Sen.

BARBARA BH, DGHTER OF EX-PRINT GEE W. BH, SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

) so dog, she is exprsg the valu of her generatn, HRC noted; 58 percent of Amerins 18-29 support gay marriage, acrdg to a 2010 survey by the Pew Fom on Relign and Public Life. Barbara Bh typilly keeps a relatively low polil profile — but her advocy around gay rights may have been fomented through her iendships wh several gay stunts while at Yale.

ArticlBarbara Bh films a spot for the Human Rights Campaign supportg gay Clendaniel02. Bh, has ma a vio for the Human Rights Campaign supportg gay marriage New York.

BARBARA BH, DGHTER OF PRINT GEE W. BH, ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE

Bh's wife, Lra, has already gone on rerd as disagreeg wh her hband's posn on gay rights, and now his dghter, who was "loved by the gay muny at Yale, " is gettg on the actn. He was gay and workg for a Republin and nvced was possible to be both at the same time.

Like dozens of other gay lleagu the Bh Whe Hoe, many of them closeted, Leve had been sure that Bh himself was personally tolerant even if the GOP was not—and unfortable wh gay-bashg as a way to w electns.

But this was also the print who had ma batg AIDS Ai a personal e (later, at Leve’s urgg, he would even rate the Whe Hoe North Porti wh a giant red ribbon to mark World AIDS Day), who had met wh prevly ostracized gay Republin lears and whose hard-le nservative vice print had an openly gay dghter. And bis, opposg gay marriage jt “wasn’t a centerpiece of the mpaign to date, ” Leve relled when we talked recently.

GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY

A few months later, one of his gay iends who had also worked the Whe Hoe sat down ont of Facebook and unted the Bh Whe Hoe staffers he knew to be gay.

CHENEY AT ODDS WH BH ON GAY MARRIAGE

Alberto Gonzal, the former Bh Whe Hoe unsel and attorney general, for example, says he never knew dozens of gays had served on the Whe Hoe staff. “I, of urse—jt by the law of statistics—knew that there were other gay people the Whe Hoe, ” he says. Evertz says Bh’s polil gu, Karl Rove, for a time would only give him clearance for public appearanc if he promised not to be billed as the first openly gay appotee a Republin admistratn.

It was only much later that Evertz learned Hernanz, who had been wh Bh sce servg as his driver and personal ai the early 1990s, was gay. The hug had been a quiet statement of support om a member of the Whe Hoe’s gay unrground.

” says one former senr official the Bh Whe Hoe whose office clud at least three gay staffers.

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