Gee W. Bh is Gay!

Contents:

• GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY
• 9 AND 11-MUTE VIOS: .01% PEDOPHILIA, ‘SPIR OKG,’ HIDN E-MAILS AS CLEAR-TO-SEE AS PRINT W. BH BTED 2 YEAR AFFAIR WH GAY MALE PROSTUTE JEFF GANNON ‘CRISIS ACTG’ AS WHE HOE PROFSNAL MEDIA
• GEORGE BUSH: "I'M GAY"
• BH’S DGHTER, A BREAK, ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY BHISMS
• GEE W. BH QUOT ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• BH ON GAY RIGHTS ISSU

GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY

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.

9 AND 11-MUTE VIOS: .01% PEDOPHILIA, ‘SPIR OKG,’ HIDN E-MAILS AS CLEAR-TO-SEE AS PRINT W. BH BTED 2 YEAR AFFAIR WH GAY MALE PROSTUTE JEFF GANNON ‘CRISIS ACTG’ AS WHE HOE PROFSNAL MEDIA

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.

GEORGE BUSH: "I'M GAY"

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.

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. In recent months, I’ve reported extensively on life the closet of the Bh Whe Hoe, and a number of his former ais are quoted on the rerd this story for the first time about their experienc as gay Republins an admistratn that was perhaps the last of the era when stutnalized discrimatn agast gays and lbians was still legal, if creasgly owned upon.

BH’S DGHTER, A BREAK, ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE

At the time, seemed to be great polics for Bh: Comg out agast gay marriage, as Rove bragged his 2010 book, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative the Fight, “benefed my ndidate” and “helped reelect him” 2004.

But sce a Supreme Court cisn last year, 19 stat and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage, jt the oute that Bh and his team fought to prevent, and a clear majory of Amerins—a rerd high of 55 percent this year—now tell pollsters they support this right. In retirement Texas, Bh himself has remaed largely silent about this polil sea change—even as his wife, Lra, exprsed support for same-sex marriage a televisn terview, his dghter Barbara taped a vio  support of legalizg gay marriage New York and even his father, the first Print Bh, served as a wns at a same-sex marriage.

GAY BHISMS

For some of his gay ais, was a stggle to rencile the cency they ually saw up close wh the equent remrs, both large and small, that theirs was a party very publicly mted to the view that they were not entled to the same legal protectns as other Amerins. Mehlman me out publicly 2010 and renounced his past work agast gay marriage; he went on to help the group that sponsored one of last year’s gay rights s the Supreme Court.

GEE W. BH QUOT ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

But for all his public regrets, there rema many gay Republins who rent Mehlman’s failure, as the hight-rankg gay person the Bh Whe Hoe, to speak out at the time he uld have ma a difference.

BH ON GAY RIGHTS ISSU

“He was the only one the room wh the print and Karl [Rove]” when strategi for stokg anti-gay marriage sentiment were oked up, a former RNC staffer told me. Other gay ais told me of siar nflicts between the duty they felt they had to serve the print and their own feelgs of alienatn and betrayal.