Washgton, D.C.'s hidn gay history is unvered 'Secret Cy'

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• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: SPORTS IS SO GAYGAY NFL PLAYERS: OUT OR RUMORED GAY AMERIN FOOTBALL JOCKS
• FBI PURSUED JACK KEMP GAY MORS
• WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
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• ADAPTED OM SECRET CITY: THE HIDN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON BY JAM KIRCHICK. PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY. COPYRIGHT © 2022 BY JAM KIRCHICK. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: IS HE GAY?IS JACK KEMP GAY?
• KEMP WASN’T GAY RG, EX-REAGAN AI SAYS
• THE GAY CHILD LEFT BEHD

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He revealed that he had a relatnship wh fellow footballer Jerry currently serv as a board member the Gay and Lbian Athletics Foundatn and is an ambassador for the Feratn of Gay Gam. He wrote an tobgraphy, Alone In The Trench: My Life As A Gay Man In The NFL, which was published 2006 and has worked wh the NFL to fight homophobia the Frankl Simmons: Roy is an offensive leman who played for both the New York Giants and the Washgton Redsks.

He me out as a gay man when he guted at the Phil Donahue Show footballers who are mored to belong to our gay NFL players list clu the followg:Kwame Harris. The two ma the news recently after Kwame allegedly beat his om Yahoo Sports:The NFL has no current players and startlgly few ex-players who are known to be gay, but appears ex-49ers and Rairs offensive tackle Kwame Harris, a former first-round pick, has voluntarily been add to the list as a rult of the legal fallout om a fight at a rtrant. Like their ternatnal footballer unterparts, the men of Amerin football sometim fd themselv very gay suatns — like the pic below — which leav no choice but to shout, “Hey, Amerin football is so gay!

FBI PURSUED JACK KEMP GAY MORS

* To be fair, the study which stated that 30% of Amerin footballers are gay is very very flawed and, although was ed published a reputable journal, don’t pass the smell tt at NFL Players: Rumored or Confirmed Gay Amerin Football Jocks. The FBI looked to mors that Jack Kemp, then a long-servg Republin member of Congrs, was gay as a potential source of ncern durg a 1989 background check. But the FBI fil show the agents had another, more unual area of tert: Was there anythg to the mors, datg om an episo California the 1960s, that the married Kemp was gay?

The lumnists Jack Anrson and Drew Pearson broke the news 1967 that what they lled "a homosexual rg" had been "operatg" Ronald Reagan's California gubernatorial admistratn. In a Republin Party that was hostile to gay people, the mor beme a major liabily for Kemp (even as he built up a nventnal GOP rerd of opposg gay rights). In the most stunng -- and unr-reported -- example, a top ai to Reagan told the journalist Robert Novak that Reagan passed over Kemp for the vice-printial nomatn 1980 bee of "that homosexual thg.

WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'

In early 1986, Kemp was preparg an '88 printial n of his own when an terviewer on NBC's "Today" asked him to say "tegorilly" that he had never been volved a "homosexual cint" (as one news story put at the time).

Ultimately, a letter to the office of Print-elect Bh, an FBI official summarizg the background check said the gay "allegatns were unsubstantiated. In 1996, Newsweek reported that the hours before Bob Dole's selectn of Kemp as his nng mate, Elizabeth Dole voiced ncerns about the gay mors (along wh reports of a separate, unspecified "personal discretn"). One edian at a gay rights rally durg the Republin nventn 1996 tnted: "Jack Kemp prov that Republins believe that gay men n marry -- as long as they marry a woman.

Kemp's immediate boss was one of the group, and Kemp had had some fancial algs wh him that clud the purchase of a lodge where, pletely unknown to Kemp, gay parti were held. “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds. “I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick said.

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Those stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially. “It was the specter of homosexualy that provoked the first and only suici by a member of Congrs his Capol Hill office, ed Lyndon Johnson to et that his historil lead would evaporate, and seized the paranoid md of Richard Nixon send only to the plots of his ever-expandg enemi list, ” Kirchick wr. ” Rumors of homosexualy were tastrophic to those who were acced of , but Kirchick also asks the rear to nsir the broar human and societal impact of such wch hunts on gay Amerins workg ernment.

“To asss the full sle of the damage that the fear of homosexualy wrought on the Amerin polil landspe, one mt take to acunt not only the reers ed and the liv cut short, but somethg vaster and unquantifiable: the possibili thwarted, ” Kirchick wr.

Although openly LGBTQ people have ma their way to the hight ranks of ernment today, was not long ago that spected homosexuals workg for the feral ernment were hunted down, publicly huiated and termated wh the full force of the ernment. There were whispers that Reagan was possibly participatg “homosexual nduct, ” and some Republins saw Reagan’s potential nomatn as a “danger to the Republin Party and the untry.

ADAPTED OM SECRET CITY: THE HIDN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON BY JAM KIRCHICK. PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY. COPYRIGHT © 2022 BY JAM KIRCHICK. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.

The possibily that Kemp uld jo the ticket was evince that there was a “homosexual rg” around Reagan and that he was “the ventriloquized pawn of shadowy and sister forc, ” Kirchick wr. When a ngrsman later asked Reagan’s munitns ai about the loss of the nomatn for Kemp, he reportedly said, “It was that homosexual thg, ” Kirchick wr. “Secret Cy” ends wh the princy of Bill Clton, who said a mpaign speech ont of a largely gay dience Los Angel 1992, “I have a visn, and you are a part of .

” Wh those words, Clton would do somethg that would have seemed unfathomable to most, if not all, of his precsors: make an explic appeal to gay Amerins for their support a printial electn. Acrdg to "fil obtaed by Salon, " 1996 Republin vice-printial ndidate Jack Kemp was vtigated by the FBI bee everyone thought he was really, really gay. And what they were able to dig up about Jack Kemp's gay ndo and gay Ronald Reagan sex parti will have a major impact on this ad man's reer, now that the documents are out.

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It was 3:15 on the morng of June 26, 1980, and Congrsman Bob Livgston was extraordarily dnk, hidg the ngrsnal gym beneath the Rayburn Hoe Office Buildg, petrified that a team of highly traed right-wg homosexual assasss workg on behalf of Ronald Reagan was about to kill him. While public attus have bee far more open, the suatn that someone is gay — whether te or not — remas a potent weapon (as elements of the mpaign agast North Carola Republin Rep. This acunt of the alleged “homosexual rg” that ntrolled Ronald Reagan, and the efforts to expose on the eve of the 1980 Republin Natnal Conventn that nomated him for the princy, is piled om terviews wh several of the survivg participants and documents unvered the papers of former Washgton Post Executive Edor Ben Bradlee.

KEMP WASN’T GAY RG, EX-REAGAN AI SAYS

“That stuff, ” or what Kemp adviser Ju Wanniski termed “the homosexual thg, ” had dogged the upstate New York ngrsman and former profsnal football player sce the fall of 1967, when the syndited newspaper lumnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anrson published a piece lkg Kemp to a “homosexual rg” operatg wh Reagan’s gubernatorial office. ” The “slanr” and “old lumny” that the virile ex-football pro and father of four might be gay, journalists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak wrote at the time, was a “vic nard, ” the sort of “poisono” “garbage” one found “submerged the polil sewers” and other “gutter munitns” that “not only do gross jtice to their victims but also mean and pollute mocratic ernment. Behd those closed doors, McCloskey suggted strongly that the possibily of Kemp as a nng mate was proof that the “homosexual rg” around Reagan, long dismissed as mor, might be somethg all too real.

Bt began llg him antilly to report that “homosexual people were very close to Reagan’s mpaign learship, ” that they were “nng” Reagan’s mpaign, and that “the suatn is absolutely out of ntrol. ” It was not until a boozy lunch wh a man claimg to have been a “long time Reagan associate, ” however, that Bt found what he believed to be the “smokg gun” provg that Reagan was ntrolled by homosexuals. ” After hearg om Bt, McCloskey agreed that a Kemp nomatn would revive the 1967 “Sndal Sacramento, ” possibly leadg to revelatns about the other homosexuals Reagan’s orb and thereby imperilg the GOP ticket.

An Eisenhower-era executive orr barrg gay people om holdg feral ernment jobs (on the grounds that they were supposedly more sceptible to blackmail) had led to a purge of thoands of workers, and while the civil service lifted s ban 1975, gays were still prohibed om holdg secury clearanc (a rtrictn that would not be lifted until 1995). “There is nothg herently wrong wh [homosexualy], ” McCloskey was later to wre, wh a veat, “ any office which do not have natnal secury rponsibili. Over dner at The Palm, some five weeks after the exchange McCloskey’s office, Livgston apparently uld not get the salac stori volvg Kemp and the homosexual Reagan ais out of his md.

THE GAY CHILD LEFT BEHD

Livgston’s md began to procs the jumble of thgs he had seen and heard over the past few weeks: the long-standg mors about Kemp; the supposed gay work encirclg Reagan; McCloskey’s ntact who claimed that he, too, had been h on by gay Reagan; Bouchey’s ti to var Lat Amerin juntas and paraari.

” He “has the pacy to ‘h’ people both Lat Ameri and here” the Uned Stat, and he “dited to me durg the eveng that Kemp was certaly a participant homosexual nduct and that he thought possible Reagan was also.