Was Phyllis Schlafly’s son really gay? We break down “Betty,” about Schlafly’s bate wh Betty Friedan.
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
In September 1992, John Schlafly, the son of nservative csar Phyllis Schlafly, nfirmed he was gay to the San Francis Examer. On the most recent episo of Hulu's Mrs. Ameri, though, ’s still only 1974. * john schlafly gay *
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.
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.
HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
Did anti-gay activist and Equal Rights Amendment opposer Phyllis Schlafly have a gay son? Pl, how did they get along wh opposg views? * john schlafly gay *
"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. Prr to the terview he gave to the Examer, he was outed by QW, a gay magaze published New York Cy. “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.
ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY WAS CLOSE TO HER HOMOSEXUAL SON
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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. 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? 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.
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.
SON OF CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REVEALS HE’S GAY
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.
Prr to this terview, John was outed by a New York-based weekly journal lled QW, an fensible and misguid attempt to unmask the hypocrisy of Phyllis’ arguments agast gay rights.
But even if was a lculated move, did ltle to soften her stance agast gay rights, or her relatnship wh her son. If anythg, John doubled down on supportg his mother’s msage of "fay valu, " and took shots at lears of the gay agenda llg them “a band of screechy gay activists. ”Article ntu below advertisementSource: gettyHe fend his mother an terview wh the Washgton Post, sayg, “Fay valu people, of which my mother is a part, are not out to bash gay people, ” addg that they were beg unfairly stigated by the media and the opposn party.
FROM THE ARCHIV: AT 2004 NVENTN, SCHLAFLY MAK HER POT ON GAY MARRIAGE — UNABASHEDLY
It remas unclear about when exactly Phyllis found out that her son was gay sce both of them refed to ment on the matter. At 92, stnch nservative Phyllis Schlafly -- who ma a name for herself the 1960s and '70s for foundg the Eagle Fom and opposg the Equal Rights Amendment, tegratn, and gay rights -- is makg headl for high-profile battl that uld unravel her nservative latt disappotment is the loss of a legal battle wh her nephew, Tom Schlafly, who wants to tramark his pany, Schlafly Beer. (UPDATE: Phyllis Schlafly, One of History's Worst Homophob, Di at 92)"In nnectn wh s age as a surname, has the nnotatn of nservative valu, which to lns of Amerins (such as Baptists and Mormons) means abstence om alhol, " Phyllis Schlafly's filg wh the tramark office stated, acrdg to a report the St.
The board end up posg Mart, though Phyllis said s actns were not approved by her and therefore null and Schlafly Cori and other board members sued Mart and John Schlafly, Anne's gay brother and one of Phyllis's sons, for nyg them ntrol of Eagle Fom.
"The su is still though she has a gay son who has stood by her for s, Schlafly has never been shy about voicg her opposn to LGBT rights. "The gays have their argument about evabily, " Schlafly told Michaelangelo Signorile last year, while promotg her book Who Killed the Amerin Fay?
HOW ACCURATE IS 'MRS. AMERI'S' PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
TIMES STAFF WRITER A son of nservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has publicly revealed that he is homosexual, while at the same time fendg his mother’s polil views and the Republin Party’s “fay valu” mpaign theme.
”He add that he “didn’t agree wh everythg” he heard at the GOP nventn but sisted that “efforts to nvey the (Republin) Conventn and the platform and speakers as bigots and gay bashers is pletely accurate. ”Schlafly was “outed, ” or revealed to be gay, by QW, a magaze published New York, two weeks ago. ” She cled to say when she learned her son is gay and add that homosexualy “is not a big subject around (the Schlafly fay).
”As for her stand on gay rights, Phyllis Schlafly said: “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. ”While John Schlafly said he did not thk was right for someone to be fired based on sexual orientatn, he said he did “not support the so-lled gay-rights agenda” and was not sure what he thought of the ary’s ban on his remarks to the Examer, he disagreed wh one mon ntentn of the relig right, that homosexualy is a choice.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S SON IS GAY
”He also objected “to anyone sayg that beg gay nstut not havg good moral character. At the GOP nventn Hoton last month she supported the party platform's nmnatn of same sex marriag and gay civil rights. In an terview wh the San Francis Examer, Schlafly's son acknowledged that he was gay.
However, John Schlafly, an attorney who liv wh his parents Alton, Ill., emerged om the closet wh dignatn not for nservativ but for other gays. " He told The Washgton Post that "a band of screechy gay activists and Washgton based prsure groups" had hysterilly overreacted to events Hoton. "The tth is: fay-valu people, of which my mother is a part, are not out to bash gay people, " said Schlafly, who was "outed" earlier this month by QW, a New York-based gay weekly.
"While his is an important step, I have to rpectfully disagree wh his fense of the fensible, " says Urvashi Vaid, print of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.