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Rachel Maddow has hosted MSNBC’s Emmy award-wng “Rachel Maddow Show” sce 2008. She is the first openly gay news anchor the U.S. Maddow talked to Variety about the shaky stat of the LGBT muny's civil rights earlier this month, before Friday's landmark Supreme Court cisn that...

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RACHEL MADDOW ON HOW REPUBLINS ARE ‘RABIDLY ANTI-GAY, LIKE IT’S 1985’

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I am acceptg applitns now om other stat that want me to relote, sce apparently I am to send-class gay cizenship what Sat Patrick was to snak.

Marriag for lbian and gay upl California start this week, although that state now fac a ballot iative that may take all away. The anti-gay-marriage movement California, as was Massachetts, is iologilly spltered, poorly anized, unpopular, experienced, tellectually herent and therefore fundamentally vulnerable. She is the first openly gay news anchor the U.

Maddow talked to Variety about the shaky stat of the LGBT muny’s civil rights earlier this month, before Friday’s landmark Supreme Court cisn that legalized gay marriage.

HOW RACHEL MADDOW BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO HOST A PRIME TIME NEWS SHOW

But the fact remas that many plac, you n still get fired or evicted if your boss or landlord knows you’re gay — or even thks you’re gay.

Basic discrimatn issu n have a material impact on the liv of many gay people; a lot of those fights will rema. There’s been a self-ngratulatory, easy narrative — how gay rights have won, the issue is settled, the battle is over.

MADDOW: GAY MUNY US 'FED FIRE'

But we have a 50-50 divid polil system, and one party is rabidly anti-gay, like ’s 1985.

None of them thks will be a liabily to be anti-gay 2016. And some of them are anti-gay on every civil-rights issue. Stt Walker wants to amend the Constutn to ny gay rights.

RACHEL MADDOW: THE NAME OF EXTREMIST GROUP PROUD BOYS SOUNDS ‘REALLY GAY’

There’s a lot of anti-gay anizg happeng the Republin party; they’re still passg legislatn all over the untry, even though we are supposedly a more tolerant time. Much of this anti-gay movement fli unr the radar, bee the Big Picture is that the untry is beg more acceptg. When MSNBC and (work print) Phil Griff cid to give me a show, they were hirg the first openly gay anchor primetime the U.

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IN JANUARY 2008, MADDOW SIGNED AN EXCLIVE NTRACT WH MSNBC AS S POLIL ANALYST, AND SHE WENT ON TO EARN A SLEW OF AWARDS THROUGH THE TELEVISED VERSN OF THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW.EARLY LIFERACHEL MADDOW WAS BORN ON APRIL 1, 1973, CASTRO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, TO AN ATTORNEY, ROBERT, AND A SCHOOL ADMISTRATOR, ELAE. MADDOW SHOWED AN TERT JOURNALISM AT AN EARLY AGE. SHE STARTED READG THE NEWSPAPER WHEN SHE WAS ONLY SEVEN, NCLUDG HER VER-TO-VER READG SSNS WH PERTENT QUTNS ABOUT WHAT SHE HAD READ. AS A TEEN, MADDOW PETED ON THE SWIMMG, VOLLEYBALL AND BASKETBALL TEAMS AT CASTRO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, BUT A SHOULR JURY PROMPTED HER TO ABANDON SPORTS. MADDOW VOTED THE OPENG HER SCHLE TO VOLUNTEERG AT A LOL AIDS CLIC, THOUGH SHE OPTED NOT TO TELL HER NSERVATIVE PARENTS, WHO HAD RECENTLY LEARNED SHE WAS GAY.IN 1994, MADDOW RECEIVED A BACHELOR'S GREE PUBLIC POLICY OM STANFORD UNIVERSY. AFTER GRADUATN SHE MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS AND BEME AN ACTIVIST FOR THE AIDS ANIZATN ACT UP. HER WORK EARNED HER A RHOS SCHOLARSHIP, MAKG MADDOW THE FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. RINT TO W THE AWARD. MADDOW APPLIED HER SCHOLARSHIP TOWARD ATTENDG OXFORD UNIVERSY, WHERE SHE OBTAED HER DOCTORATE POLIL SCIENCE.RAD CAREERIN 1999 MADDOW LAND A JOB AS -HOST ON WRNX RAD'S THE DAVE THE MORNG SHOW. HER NEXT JOB WAS A TWO-YEAR STT AS HOST OF WRSI'S MORNG SHOW BIG BREAKFAST. IN 2004, SHE DNED FOR AIR AMERI, A NEWLY FOUND LIBERAL RAD WORK, AND HELD A -HOST POSN UNTIL THE SHOW WAS NCELLED 2005. THE NCELLATN TURNED OUT TO BE A BLSG DISGUISE FOR MADDOW, AS AIR AMERI GAVE HER THE CHANCE TO FLY SOLO WH THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW. IT SERVED AS ONE OF AIR AMERI’S HIGHT-RATED PROGRAMS UNTIL THE WORK FOLD EARLY 2010.TV CAREER: 'THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW'IN 2006, MADDOW MANAGED TO PARLAY HER RAD REER TO BLE TELEVISN WHEN SHE BEME A REGULAR ON THE MSNBC SHOW THE SUATN WH TUCKER CARLSON. SHE WAS ALSO A RECURRG GUT ON CNN’S PLA ZAHN NOW DURG THE 2006 MIDTERM ELECTNS. IN JANUARY 2008, MADDOW SIGNED AN EXCLIVE NTRACT WH MSNBC AS THE STATN’S POLIL ANALYST. THAT SEPTEMBER THE LNCH OF HER NIGHTLY BLE TELEVISN PROGRAM, ALSO LLED THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, MARKED MSNBC’S MOST SUCCSFUL SHOW BUT TO DATE. SHE BEME THE WORK'S MOST PROMENT PUBLIC FIGURE, SERVG AS A CHAMPN OF LIBERAL IALS AS THE PARTISAN DIVI BEME MORE PRONOUNCED ON BLE TV NEWS.IN JUNE 2018, MADDOW DREW ATTENTN WHEN SHE BEME TOO EMOTNAL TO READ A BREAKG NEWS REPORT ABOUT THE SEPARATN OF CHILDREN OM PARENTS WHO ILLEGALLY CROSSED THE MEXI-U.S. BORR, FORCG HER TO PASS ON THE RPONSIBILY TO FELLOW MSNBC BROADSTER LAWRENCE O’DONNELL. MADDOW LATER APOLOGIZED ON TWTER FOR BEG UNABLE TO RELAY THE REPORT, WHICH SCRIBED HOW THREE SHELTERS WERE SET UP SOUTH TEXAS TO HOLD PRCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN.AWARDS AND BOOKMADDOW HAS GARNERED A SLEW OF ACLAS FOR HER NEWS WORK, CLUDG MULTIPLE EMMY AND GRACIE WS, THE WALTER CRONKE FAH & FREEDOM AWARD, THE JOHN STEBECK AWARD OM SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSY AND A GLAAD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDG JOURNALISM.ADDNALLY, MADDOW BEME A BT-SELLG THOR WH THE 2012 PUBLITN OF DRIFT: THE UNMOORG OF AMERIN MILARY POWER, WHICH EXAMED AMERIN POLICY AND LEGISLATN THAT AREA OM RECENT S. PERSONAL LIFEMADDOW ME OUT ABOUT HER HOMOSEXUALY WHEN SHE WAS A 17-YEAR-OLD HMAN AT STANFORD. SHE MET HER PARTNER, ARTIST SAN MIKULA, WHEN MADDOW WAS WORKG ODD JOBS MASSACHETTS WHILE FISHG HER DISSERTATN. IN 1999, THE PAIR MOVED TO A FARMHOE RAL MASSACHETTS. IN RECENT YEARS, MADDOW HAS DIVID HER TIME BETWEEN HER HOM NEW YORK AND MASSACHETTS, WHERE SHE HAS NTUED TO RI WH HER GIRLIEND SAN AND THE UPLE'S LABRADOR {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

And the longer I’m on the air, and the more people e out — there are a lot more openly gay anchors now — ’s beg ls the fg issue about what I do.

I don’t want the fact that I’m gay to be the only important thg you n absorb about me.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Those numbers are nice and fortg, but they don’t reflect the legal stat of gay people this untry, which is tenuo. It’s an ongog fight, and there is still a long way to go on basic civil-rights protectn for gay people this untry.

As he wrapped up his party’s printial nomatn, the New York Tim ran an article wh a headle that read, “Donald Tmp’s More Acceptg Views on Gay Issu Set Him Apart G. Years before TV host Rachel Maddow climbed to the top of prime time news charts as the first openly gay woman host, she worked her fair share of odd jobs and me out by postg flyers her Stanford dorm. Rachel Maddow, 46, is the first openly gay woman to host a prime time news show wh the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Maddow creds her voted partner of 20 years, artist San Mikula, wh pullg her out of the suicidal feelgs as she stggl wh prsn (pictured together)'Maddow has taken a tly unorthodox path to stardom and never apologized or changed who she is to get to where she is today, ' the thor wr.

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Maddow: Gay muny US 'fed fire' .

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