Gee Bh's Dghter Com out For Gay Marriage Barbara Bh's Gay Rights Vio - GOOD

Contents:

• BH’S DGHTER, A BREAK, ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE
• BH DGHTER BARBARA COM OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY
• BH'S DGHTER THROWS SUPPORT BEHD GAY MARRIAGE
• BARBARA BH, DGHTER OF EX-PRINT GEE W. BH, SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
• EX-PRINT BH'S DGHTER SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
• GEE W. BH’S DGHTER BARBARA ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE
• BARBARA BH, DGHTER OF PRINT GEE W. BH, ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE
• BH DGHTER ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE NEW VIO
• BH ON GAY RIGHTS ISSU

BH’S DGHTER, A BREAK, ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE

Bh, will endorse same-sex marriage on Tuday, publicly breakg ranks wh a father who, as print, phed for a nstutnal amendment banng such Bh, 29, has taped a vio llg on New York to legalize gay marriage. Gay rights advot have been quick to seize on the generatnal spl as evince that the acceptance of same-sex marriage is bld to party affiliatn and fay valu. But for years, those close to her say, she has surround herself wh gay iends — at Yale, where she was an unrgraduate, and New York Cy, where she worked the sign world.

The Human Rights Campaign, a natnal gay rights group that ma the vio, plans to show Saturday at an annual gala New York Cy.

BH DGHTER BARBARA COM OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 14 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dghter Of Bh Endors Gay Marriage. 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.

GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY

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. 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.

BH'S DGHTER THROWS SUPPORT BEHD GAY MARRIAGE

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.

BARBARA BH, DGHTER OF EX-PRINT GEE W. BH, SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

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.

EX-PRINT BH'S DGHTER SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

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.

GEE W. BH’S DGHTER BARBARA 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.

BARBARA BH, DGHTER OF PRINT GEE W. BH, ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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.

“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.

BH DGHTER ENDORS GAY MARRIAGE NEW VIO

Bh started out as perhaps the most gay-iendly Republin print ever, an astonishg fact when you nsir that, his first year office, 71 percent of Republins thought homosexual behavr was morally wrong, acrdg to Gallup.

BH ON GAY RIGHTS ISSU

” The party’s platform that year might have talked about the sancty of tradnal marriage as a foundatn of Amerin mocracy, but this was nohels a print who, a few months before nailg down his party’s nomatn 2000, met At wh a dozen gay Republin lears, proclaimg afterward, “I am a better person for the meetg. And even when his own reelectn was on the le four years later, he went out of his way to endorse civil unns—though he omted the fact when mpaigng agast gay marriage. “When you say, ‘I don’t re if you’re gay, ’ you’re basilly sayg, ‘I don’t re about somethg you are or the sence of who you are, ’” Bh was told, acrdg to Evertz.

The group also told Bh that the Texas Republin Party was latg s anti-gay rhetoric and that he should avoid s nventn that year.