Son of Conservative Activist Phyllis Schlafly Reveals He's Gay - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• MRS. AMERI: THE TTH ABOUT JOHN, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON
• HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
• ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY WAS CLOSE TO HER HOMOSEXUAL SON
• SON OF CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REVEALS HE’S GAY
• FROM THE ARCHIV: AT 2004 NVENTN, SCHLAFLY MAK HER POT ON GAY MARRIAGE — UNABASHEDLY
• HOW ACCURATE IS 'MRS. AMERI'S' PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
• PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S SON IS GAY

MRS. AMERI: THE TTH ABOUT JOHN, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON

Ameri has retroduced John Schlafly (Ben Rosenfield), the gay son of Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett), the right-wg activist who waged war agast the Equal Rights Amendment.

HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED

While John is gay, he did not acknowledge publicly until September 1992, when the gay New York Cy magaze Queer World, also known as QW, outed him shortly after the Republin Natnal Conventn, which was phg a "fay valu", a supporter of the homophobic ndidate Pat Buchanan, nfirmed his inty shortly afterward. "The fay valu movement is not antigay, " John, 41 at the time, told the Los Angel Tim. " "There's nothg about my posn on gay rights that should be offensive to a gay unls he's seekg some kd of preferential stat, " she the L.

(Related: The Sad Last Days of Homo-Hate Queen Phyllis Schlafly)"The gays have their argument about evabily, " Schlafly said of the fight for marriage equaly. In September 1992, John Schlafly, the son of nservative csar Phyllis Schlafly, nfirmed he was gay to the San Francis Examer.

ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY WAS CLOSE TO HER HOMOSEXUAL SON

Prr to the terview he gave to the Examer, he was outed by QW, a gay magaze published New York Cy.

SON OF CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REVEALS HE’S GAY

“The fay valu movement is not anti-gay, ” he said to The Los Angel Tim, which noted that his mother’s polil anizatn, the Eagle Fom, was John's client and that John still lived at home.

”In several terviews, Phyllis cled to nfirm when she learned her son was gay, clarg ’s “not a big subject” around the hoe. In this episo, Phyllis gradually realiz that her elst son, John, is gay and nonts him about his sexualy an direct but unmistakable way, tellg him how she was able to qu smokg bee “the md is stronger than the body. ”While the particulars of the nversatn — and the circumstanc that spired — have almost certaly been imaged by the wrers, is te that John Schlafly is gay.

FROM THE ARCHIV: AT 2004 NVENTN, SCHLAFLY MAK HER POT ON GAY MARRIAGE — UNABASHEDLY

He was outed by Queer World, a New York gay magaze, jt after the Republin Natnal Conventn 1992 — where cultural nservativ like Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson tmpeted the importance of “fay valu” and nounced Bill Clon’s support for gay rights. ”In a 1993 terview, Schlafly said she’d known for a long time that her child was gay, but they did not discs until the Queer World article me out. Anti-Gay Activist Phyllis Schlafly Was Close to Her Homosexual SonDid anti-gay activist and Equal Rights Amendment opposer Phyllis Schlafly have a gay son?

HOW ACCURATE IS 'MRS. AMERI'S' PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON? WE REARCHED

Throughout her many years polics, Phyllis Schlafly advoted agast the Equal Rights Amendment, abortn, sex tn public schools, same-sex marriage, and gay civil rights.

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S SON IS GAY

Not only did she build a very succsful reer on the argument that a woman’s place is the home, her stance on gay rights was plited by the fact that her own son was a latt episos of Mrs. Ameri explore Phyllis’ relatnship wh her son and how she mataed her opposn to gay rights even wh him by her si.

Keep scrollg for everythg you need to know about Phyllis Schafly’s gay son, John F. In September 1992, John Schlafly nfirmed to the San Francis Examer that he was gay.