Insi Leonard Bernste’s ‘slow creep toward overt gayns’

Contents:

• INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
• AUTHOR OF SELF-HELP BOOK FOR GAY MEN STUNS FRIENDS WH SUICI
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: IS HE GAY?SAMUEL BART GAY, BOYIEND, MARRIED: DIRK GENTLY SHIRTLS UNRWEAR
• JEREMY BERNARD APPOTED FIRST GAY, MALE SOCIAL SECRETARY OBAMA’S NEW SOCIAL SECRETARY—THE FIRST MAN AND GAY PERSON TO HOLD THE JOB—IS A BOLD PICK. JAB BERNSTE ON JEREMY BERNARD’S CLIMB UP THE SOCIAL LADR AND WHAT THIS MEANS FOR GAY RIGHTS.JAB BERNSTEUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 1:19PM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 25, 2011 7:38PM EST JEREMY BERNARD, LEFT, WH HIS FORMER PARTNER RUF GIFFORD, 2009. (PHOTO: LDA DAVIDSON, THE WASHGTON POST / GETTY IMAG)IN OCTOBER OF 2009, TENS OF THOANDS OF LGBT PEOPLE MARCHED ON WASHGTON, LAMBASTG PRINT OBAMA FOR WHAT THEY SAW TO BE A TOTALLY UNRWHELMG AGENDA ON GAY RIGHTS.WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR AND A HALF N MAKE. SCE THAT TIME, WHEN ANDREW SULLIVAN LOUDLY CLARED THAT OBAMA’S SPEECH AT A GAY RIGHTS EVENT WAS LTLE MORE THAN “BULLSH…MPAIGN BOILERPLATE,” THE PRINT HAS SIGNED A MAJOR HATE CRIM PREVENTN ACT, REPEALED DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL, REFED TO SUPPORT THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, AND NOW THE LATT: APPOTED JEREMY BERNARD AS THE FIRST MAN AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO BE THE WHE HOE SOCIAL SECRETARY, REPLACG JULIANNA SMOOT, WHO’S LEAVG TO GO WORK ON THE PRINT’S RE-ELECTN MPAIGN. “IT’S A BIG WEEK FOR GAY RIGHTS,” SAID COREY JOHNSON, THE POLIL DIRECTOR FOR TOWLEROAD, THE FLUENTIAL GAY BLOG.FURTHER, BERNARD’S ASCENSN IS A SIGN THAT NEHER THE “SHELLACKG” OBAMA TOOK THE MID-TERM ELECTNS NOR THE CCIFIXN OF HIS EX-SOCIAL SECRETARY DIREE ROGERS BACK 2009 ARE GOG TO KEEP THE PRINT OM MAKG BOLD, OCSNALLY EYEBROW-RAISG CHOIC—WHICH SOME WAY, BERNARD IS. TALK TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE PRINT’S NEW PICK AND THE WORDS THAT E UP DITE AN EXTROVERTED QUALY THAT’S SOMEWHAT AT ODDS WH WHAT’S ORDARILY EXPECTED OM THOSE AROUND OBAMA. BERNARD, WHO IS 49 AND MOST RECENTLY SERVED AS THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE, IS “GREGAR” AND “ELECTRIC,” THEY SAY. HE RRI HIMSELF WH “FLOURISH” AND “PANACHE.” HE MAY NOT CUT AS WI A SWATH AS ROGERS, BUT HE’S PROBABLY CLOSER TO HER THAN HIS IMMEDIATE PRECSOR, SMOOT.AT THE TIME BERNARD GOT VOLVED WH THE OBAMA MPAIGN, WAS BY NO MEANS FASHNABLE GAY CIRCL."JEREMY IS NOT A SAFE CHOICE IF SAFE CHOIC MEAN HAVG SOMEONE LIKE MAMIE EISENHOWER’S SOCIAL SECRETARY, SOMEBODY THE TRADNAL REPUBLIN SENSE," SAID MARC NATHANSON, THE BILLNAIRE BSMAN OM CALIFORNIA WHOM BERNARD WORKED FOR THROUGH MUCH OF THE NETI. "HE’S A PERSON WH ENERGY, DRIVE, AND CREATIVY. HE IS NOT GOG TO FA TO THE BACKGROUND." EVEN BERNARD'S CLOTH ARE BOLR THAN WHAT YOU'D EXPECT OM A WASHGTON SIR, NATHANSON SAID. “I’M A BROOKS BROTHERS ’S MORE VERSACE.” (“HE’S NOT THAT SLICK,” ANOTHER IEND, HILARY ROSEN, UTNED MOMENTS LATER. “BUT HE’S BEEN PARIS FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS AND I’M SURE HE’S UPGRAD.”)GROWG UP SAN ANTON, TEXAS, BERNARD’S FATHER WAS A LAWYER WHO DID EXTENSIVE CIVIL RIGHTS WORK. THOUGH HE MATRICULATED AT HUNTER COLLEGE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, BERNARD NEVER GRADUATED—AN TERTG TIDB THAT DID NOT GO UNMENTNED WHEN OBAMA APPOTED HIM TO THE NATNAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANI TWO YEARS AGO.OUT OF THE CLOSET OM A FAIRLY YOUNG AGE, HE EARNED HIS STRIP WORKG FOR DAVID MIXNER, WHO WENT OM BEG CLTON’S GAY NSIGLIERE TO ONE OF HIS FIERCT CRICS ON DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL. “IT WAS JEREMY WHO BAILED ME OUT OF JAIL WHEN I GOT ARRTED PROTTG AT THE WHE HOE,” MIXNER RELLED.IN THE MID-90S, BERNARD HEAD WT, WHERE HE WENT TO WORK FOR NATHANSON. RUNNG A LARGE BLE PANY VOLVED EXTENSIVE WORK LOBBYG ERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND BERNARD BEME THE GO-TO GUY CHARGE OF THOSE EFFORTS, SAID NATHANSON, WHO SCRIBED HIS PROTéGé AS “EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE AND HARDWORKG.”FROM THERE, BERNARD MOVED FURTHER TO DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISG, A NATURAL F FOR A GUY WHO BY ALL ACUNTS LOVED GOG TO PARTI AND LOVED TO ENTERTA. “JEREMY IS VERY SOCIAL,” SAID NATHANSON. “THERE WAS NEVER A PARTY HE DID NOT LIKE TO GO TO.”AND, AS ANDY SPAHN, THE MAN CHARGE OF PHILANTHROPY EFFORTS FOR HOLLYWOOD HEAVYWEIGHTS LIKE STEVEN SPIELBERG AND JEFEY KATZENBERG, PUT , BERNARD WAS ALSO THE KD OF PERSON WHO REGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVG ALLI ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT PLAC. “HE MA A LOT OF IENDS LOS ANGEL AND CUT ACROSS TOWN, OM THE ENTERTAMENT MUNY TO THE BS MUNY TO THE GAY MUNY TO THE POLIL MUNY.”THIS POSNED HIM WELL THE WORK HE DID FOR THE CLTONS, AL GORE, HOWARD DEAN, AND JOHN KERRY. THEN, THE LAST PRINTIAL ELECTN, HE WORKED PROMENTLY AS A CALIFORNIA FUNDRAISER FOR OBAMA, WORKG WH HIS THEN-BOYIEND, RUF GIFFORD (NOW THE FANCE DIRECTOR FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NATNAL COMMTEE).AT THE TIME BERNARD GOT VOLVED WH THE OBAMA MPAIGN, SAID ELIZABETH BIRCH, THE FORMER HEAD OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, A GAY RIGHTS GROUP, WAS BY NO MEANS FASHNABLE GAY CIRCL TO BE PRO-OBAMA. “HE SIGNED ON REALLY EARLY, WHICH MAK HIM DIFFERENT THAN A LOT OF GAY LEARS. JEREMY WAS THERE EARLY AND WAS DITED AND LOYAL AND UNWAVERG.”AFTER THE PRINT WAS ELECTED, BERNARD AND GIFFORD MOVED TO D.C, WHERE THEY LAND POWER JOBS—BERNARD AS THE WHE HOE LIAISON AT THE NATNAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANI, GIFFORD AS THE FANCE DIRECTOR FOR THE DNC—AND SLOTS ON VIP LISTS.IN AN ARTICLE THE WASHGTON POST, GIFFORD ADMTED THAT HE AND BERNARD ETTED OVER WHETHER THEIR NEW DIGS WERE BIG ENOUGH TO HOST . “WE HAD THAT NVERSATN,” HE SAID. “IS BIG ENOUGH TO ENTERTA?” (THOUGH THEY TERMED THAT WAS, THE RELATNSHIP SOON SOURED).BERNARD HAD HIS TRACTORS D.C., WHO OCSNALLY GMBLED THAT HE LACKED A BACKGROUND THE ARTS TO JTIFY HIS POSN, OR THAT HE GOT THE JOB AS A THANK-YOU FOR HIS FUNDRAISG EFFORTS. BUT AS BIRCH SAW , NEHER OF THE THGS IS NOTEWORTHY. “HOW DO YOU BEE AN EXPERT THE HUMANI?” SHE SAID. “IT’S A PRETTY BROAD AREA, YOU DON’T NECSARILY GET A GREE …IF JEREMY GOT AN APPOTMENT PART BEE HE WAS LOYAL TO OBAMA, THAT’S HARDLY UNPRECENTED.”NOW, AS HE ASCENDS TO THIS MORE HIGH-PROFILE POSN, RRYG WH HIM SOME ROGERS-QUE GLZ, SOME OF THE TRACTORS WILL VARIABLY EMERGE.STILL, FEW THK HE’LL WD UP THE SAME POSN AS HIS PRECSOR, HUNG OUT TO DRY WHEN A REALY TV WANNABE CRASH AN EVENT.BEFORE GETTG OFF THE PHONE WH ME, HIS FORMER BOSS, NATHANSON, RELLED A FUNDRAISER HE AND BERNARD DID FOR BILL CLTON, WHICH HE SAID ILLTRAT BERNARD’S SUPERR SCREENG SKILLS. “EVEN THOUGH I WAS THE CHAIR OF THE EVENT, THE CLTON PEOPLE WANTED TO BE CHARGE OF SCREENG ALL THE DONORS. WE WERE PUT THE BACKGROUND, WHICH WE WEREN’T ED TO. SO AT THE EVENT, WE WERE LOOKG AT THE GUTS, AND JEREMY SAID, ‘I N’T BELIEVE THEY LET SUCH AND SUCH .’ BUT THE MPAIGN STAFF HAD TAKEN THEIR MONEY AND LET THEM . SO WE WENT OVER TO THE MPAIGN STAFF, AND SAID ‘WHO ARE THOSE PEOPLE?’ AND THEY SAID, ‘IT’S A MAN OM SAN DIEGO AND HIS NEPHEW.’ AND JEREMY SNICKERED AND SAID, ‘NO. THAT’S A GAY PORN PRODUCER AND ONE OF HIS STARS.’ SO OBVLY THE MPAIGN STAFF WH ALL THEIR SECURY AND PREPARATN DID NOT KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT THE POTENTIAL DONORS AS JEREMY BERNARD DID.”JAB BERNSTE IS A SENR REPORTER AT THE DAILY BEAST. HE HAS ALSO WRTEN FOR NEW YORK MAGAZE, PAPER, AND THE HUFFGTON POST. JAB BERNSTE

INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’

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AUTHOR OF SELF-HELP BOOK FOR GAY MEN STUNS FRIENDS WH SUICI

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JEREMY BERNARD APPOTED FIRST GAY, MALE SOCIAL SECRETARY OBAMA’S NEW SOCIAL SECRETARY—THE FIRST MAN AND GAY PERSON TO HOLD THE JOB—IS A BOLD PICK. JAB BERNSTE ON JEREMY BERNARD’S CLIMB UP THE SOCIAL LADR AND WHAT THIS MEANS FOR GAY RIGHTS.JAB BERNSTEUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 1:19PM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 25, 2011 7:38PM EST JEREMY BERNARD, LEFT, WH HIS FORMER PARTNER RUF GIFFORD, 2009. (PHOTO: LDA DAVIDSON, THE WASHGTON POST / GETTY IMAG)IN OCTOBER OF 2009, TENS OF THOANDS OF LGBT PEOPLE MARCHED ON WASHGTON, LAMBASTG PRINT OBAMA FOR WHAT THEY SAW TO BE A TOTALLY UNRWHELMG AGENDA ON GAY RIGHTS.WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR AND A HALF N MAKE. SCE THAT TIME, WHEN ANDREW SULLIVAN LOUDLY CLARED THAT OBAMA’S SPEECH AT A GAY RIGHTS EVENT WAS LTLE MORE THAN “BULLSH…MPAIGN BOILERPLATE,” THE PRINT HAS SIGNED A MAJOR HATE CRIM PREVENTN ACT, REPEALED DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL, REFED TO SUPPORT THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, AND NOW THE LATT: APPOTED JEREMY BERNARD AS THE FIRST MAN AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO BE THE WHE HOE SOCIAL SECRETARY, REPLACG JULIANNA SMOOT, WHO’S LEAVG TO GO WORK ON THE PRINT’S RE-ELECTN MPAIGN. “IT’S A BIG WEEK FOR GAY RIGHTS,” SAID COREY JOHNSON, THE POLIL DIRECTOR FOR TOWLEROAD, THE FLUENTIAL GAY BLOG.FURTHER, BERNARD’S ASCENSN IS A SIGN THAT NEHER THE “SHELLACKG” OBAMA TOOK THE MID-TERM ELECTNS NOR THE CCIFIXN OF HIS EX-SOCIAL SECRETARY DIREE ROGERS BACK 2009 ARE GOG TO KEEP THE PRINT OM MAKG BOLD, OCSNALLY EYEBROW-RAISG CHOIC—WHICH SOME WAY, BERNARD IS. TALK TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE PRINT’S NEW PICK AND THE WORDS THAT E UP DITE AN EXTROVERTED QUALY THAT’S SOMEWHAT AT ODDS WH WHAT’S ORDARILY EXPECTED OM THOSE AROUND OBAMA. BERNARD, WHO IS 49 AND MOST RECENTLY SERVED AS THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE, IS “GREGAR” AND “ELECTRIC,” THEY SAY. HE RRI HIMSELF WH “FLOURISH” AND “PANACHE.” HE MAY NOT CUT AS WI A SWATH AS ROGERS, BUT HE’S PROBABLY CLOSER TO HER THAN HIS IMMEDIATE PRECSOR, SMOOT.AT THE TIME BERNARD GOT VOLVED WH THE OBAMA MPAIGN, WAS BY NO MEANS FASHNABLE GAY CIRCL."JEREMY IS NOT A SAFE CHOICE IF SAFE CHOIC MEAN HAVG SOMEONE LIKE MAMIE EISENHOWER’S SOCIAL SECRETARY, SOMEBODY THE TRADNAL REPUBLIN SENSE," SAID MARC NATHANSON, THE BILLNAIRE BSMAN OM CALIFORNIA WHOM BERNARD WORKED FOR THROUGH MUCH OF THE NETI. "HE’S A PERSON WH ENERGY, DRIVE, AND CREATIVY. HE IS NOT GOG TO FA TO THE BACKGROUND." EVEN BERNARD'S CLOTH ARE BOLR THAN WHAT YOU'D EXPECT OM A WASHGTON SIR, NATHANSON SAID. “I’M A BROOKS BROTHERS ’S MORE VERSACE.” (“HE’S NOT THAT SLICK,” ANOTHER IEND, HILARY ROSEN, UTNED MOMENTS LATER. “BUT HE’S BEEN PARIS FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS AND I’M SURE HE’S UPGRAD.”)GROWG UP SAN ANTON, TEXAS, BERNARD’S FATHER WAS A LAWYER WHO DID EXTENSIVE CIVIL RIGHTS WORK. THOUGH HE MATRICULATED AT HUNTER COLLEGE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, BERNARD NEVER GRADUATED—AN TERTG TIDB THAT DID NOT GO UNMENTNED WHEN OBAMA APPOTED HIM TO THE NATNAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANI TWO YEARS AGO.OUT OF THE CLOSET OM A FAIRLY YOUNG AGE, HE EARNED HIS STRIP WORKG FOR DAVID MIXNER, WHO WENT OM BEG CLTON’S GAY NSIGLIERE TO ONE OF HIS FIERCT CRICS ON DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL. “IT WAS JEREMY WHO BAILED ME OUT OF JAIL WHEN I GOT ARRTED PROTTG AT THE WHE HOE,” MIXNER RELLED.IN THE MID-90S, BERNARD HEAD WT, WHERE HE WENT TO WORK FOR NATHANSON. RUNNG A LARGE BLE PANY VOLVED EXTENSIVE WORK LOBBYG ERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND BERNARD BEME THE GO-TO GUY CHARGE OF THOSE EFFORTS, SAID NATHANSON, WHO SCRIBED HIS PROTéGé AS “EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE AND HARDWORKG.”FROM THERE, BERNARD MOVED FURTHER TO DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISG, A NATURAL F FOR A GUY WHO BY ALL ACUNTS LOVED GOG TO PARTI AND LOVED TO ENTERTA. “JEREMY IS VERY SOCIAL,” SAID NATHANSON. “THERE WAS NEVER A PARTY HE DID NOT LIKE TO GO TO.”AND, AS ANDY SPAHN, THE MAN CHARGE OF PHILANTHROPY EFFORTS FOR HOLLYWOOD HEAVYWEIGHTS LIKE STEVEN SPIELBERG AND JEFEY KATZENBERG, PUT , BERNARD WAS ALSO THE KD OF PERSON WHO REGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVG ALLI ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT PLAC. “HE MA A LOT OF IENDS LOS ANGEL AND CUT ACROSS TOWN, OM THE ENTERTAMENT MUNY TO THE BS MUNY TO THE GAY MUNY TO THE POLIL MUNY.”THIS POSNED HIM WELL THE WORK HE DID FOR THE CLTONS, AL GORE, HOWARD DEAN, AND JOHN KERRY. THEN, THE LAST PRINTIAL ELECTN, HE WORKED PROMENTLY AS A CALIFORNIA FUNDRAISER FOR OBAMA, WORKG WH HIS THEN-BOYIEND, RUF GIFFORD (NOW THE FANCE DIRECTOR FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NATNAL COMMTEE).AT THE TIME BERNARD GOT VOLVED WH THE OBAMA MPAIGN, SAID ELIZABETH BIRCH, THE FORMER HEAD OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, A GAY RIGHTS GROUP, WAS BY NO MEANS FASHNABLE GAY CIRCL TO BE PRO-OBAMA. “HE SIGNED ON REALLY EARLY, WHICH MAK HIM DIFFERENT THAN A LOT OF GAY LEARS. JEREMY WAS THERE EARLY AND WAS DITED AND LOYAL AND UNWAVERG.”AFTER THE PRINT WAS ELECTED, BERNARD AND GIFFORD MOVED TO D.C, WHERE THEY LAND POWER JOBS—BERNARD AS THE WHE HOE LIAISON AT THE NATNAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANI, GIFFORD AS THE FANCE DIRECTOR FOR THE DNC—AND SLOTS ON VIP LISTS.IN AN ARTICLE THE WASHGTON POST, GIFFORD ADMTED THAT HE AND BERNARD ETTED OVER WHETHER THEIR NEW DIGS WERE BIG ENOUGH TO HOST . “WE HAD THAT NVERSATN,” HE SAID. “IS BIG ENOUGH TO ENTERTA?” (THOUGH THEY TERMED THAT WAS, THE RELATNSHIP SOON SOURED).BERNARD HAD HIS TRACTORS D.C., WHO OCSNALLY GMBLED THAT HE LACKED A BACKGROUND THE ARTS TO JTIFY HIS POSN, OR THAT HE GOT THE JOB AS A THANK-YOU FOR HIS FUNDRAISG EFFORTS. BUT AS BIRCH SAW , NEHER OF THE THGS IS NOTEWORTHY. “HOW DO YOU BEE AN EXPERT THE HUMANI?” SHE SAID. “IT’S A PRETTY BROAD AREA, YOU DON’T NECSARILY GET A GREE …IF JEREMY GOT AN APPOTMENT PART BEE HE WAS LOYAL TO OBAMA, THAT’S HARDLY UNPRECENTED.”NOW, AS HE ASCENDS TO THIS MORE HIGH-PROFILE POSN, RRYG WH HIM SOME ROGERS-QUE GLZ, SOME OF THE TRACTORS WILL VARIABLY EMERGE.STILL, FEW THK HE’LL WD UP THE SAME POSN AS HIS PRECSOR, HUNG OUT TO DRY WHEN A REALY TV WANNABE CRASH AN EVENT.BEFORE GETTG OFF THE PHONE WH ME, HIS FORMER BOSS, NATHANSON, RELLED A FUNDRAISER HE AND BERNARD DID FOR BILL CLTON, WHICH HE SAID ILLTRAT BERNARD’S SUPERR SCREENG SKILLS. “EVEN THOUGH I WAS THE CHAIR OF THE EVENT, THE CLTON PEOPLE WANTED TO BE CHARGE OF SCREENG ALL THE DONORS. WE WERE PUT THE BACKGROUND, WHICH WE WEREN’T ED TO. SO AT THE EVENT, WE WERE LOOKG AT THE GUTS, AND JEREMY SAID, ‘I N’T BELIEVE THEY LET SUCH AND SUCH .’ BUT THE MPAIGN STAFF HAD TAKEN THEIR MONEY AND LET THEM . SO WE WENT OVER TO THE MPAIGN STAFF, AND SAID ‘WHO ARE THOSE PEOPLE?’ AND THEY SAID, ‘IT’S A MAN OM SAN DIEGO AND HIS NEPHEW.’ AND JEREMY SNICKERED AND SAID, ‘NO. THAT’S A GAY PORN PRODUCER AND ONE OF HIS STARS.’ SO OBVLY THE MPAIGN STAFF WH ALL THEIR SECURY AND PREPARATN DID NOT KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT THE POTENTIAL DONORS AS JEREMY BERNARD DID.”JAB BERNSTE IS A SENR REPORTER AT THE DAILY BEAST. HE HAS ALSO WRTEN FOR NEW YORK MAGAZE, PAPER, AND THE HUFFGTON POST. JAB BERNSTE

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