Print John F. Kennedy was killed Dallas 50 years ago, leavg behd a mourng natn and his gay bt iend, Lem Billgs.
Contents:
- ETHEL KENNEDY ABANDONED BOBBY JR. AND TURNED TO JFK'S GAY BT IEND LEM BILLGS
- MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND
- INSI JFK’S INTIMATE RELATNSHIP WH GAY BT FRIEND WHO HAD HIS OWN ROOM IN THE WHE HOE
ETHEL KENNEDY ABANDONED BOBBY JR. AND TURNED TO JFK'S GAY BT IEND LEM BILLGS
While he was on the urt, Kennedy was the cisive vote for the urt’s 5-4 pro-gay rights lgs. He wrote each of the urt’s landmark gay rights cisns, outlawg bans on same-sex sexual nduct, LGBTQ polil advocy and same-sex marriage at the state and feral level. Kennedy is the voice of the urt’s gay rights doctre.
Havg tracked judicial progrs on gay rights over the last , I’d argue that Kennedy’s retirement puts this doctre, and the movement, jeopardy. Although his lgs on same-sex relatnships have hered new eedoms for lbian and gay upl, they rt on agile nstutnal arguments.
MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND
Wh Kennedy’s retirement, there is greater opportuny for anti-gay activists to dismantle the urt’s tenuo legal amework supportg gay rights. Kennedy joed the urt 1988 as a Reagan appotee whose only cisn on gay rights, wrten durg his tenure on the 9th Circu Court of Appeals, narrowly upheld ary regulatns prohibg “homosexual nduct.
INSI JFK’S INTIMATE RELATNSHIP WH GAY BT FRIEND WHO HAD HIS OWN ROOM IN THE WHE HOE
In 1996, ls than a after his appotment to the urt, Kennedy would thor his first of multiple Supreme Court cisns protectg the rights of lbians and gay men. If upheld, the amendment would have renred any discrimatn agast gays or lbians hog, employment and public acmodatns both legal and untouchable. The state argued that they were protectg the “liberti of landlords or employers who have personal or relig objectns to homosexualy” and were dog “no more than ny[g] homosexuals special rights.
The policy, Kennedy stated, was “born of animosy toward the class of persons affected” and renred members of the gay muny “unequal to everyone else. For the gay muny, Romer marked what New York Tim reporter Lda Greenhoe scribed as a “historic shift the Court’s rponse to anti-gay discrimatn, ” stoppg other stat om followg su.