Is Jack Kemp Gay? Quarterback and Republin Congrsman

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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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• THE GAY CHILD LEFT BEHD
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• KEMP WASN’T GAY RG, EX-REAGAN AI SAYS

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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.

FBI PURSUED JACK KEMP GAY MORS

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! * 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).

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

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. 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). The FBI also terviewed an edor at the San Diego Unn newspaper who said his paper had vtigated the gay mors and found no evince to support them.

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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. “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. 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.

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” 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. 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.

THE GAY CHILD LEFT BEHD

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?... 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.

The mor that would follow Kemp for the rt of his life had been acrdg to the people the FBI talked to, none of this gay Jack Kemp stuff happened. Here’s a 1996 story wrten by Peter O’Shea back 1996 focg on the former vice-printial ndidate’s mored ’S MATE KEMP: THE STORIES ABOUND by Peter O’SheaJack Kemp Gay Past. Jack Kemp, the man chosen by Republin Bob Dole to be his nng mate the November US printial electns, has a gay past – at least that’s the speculatn rurrected by numero news reports the US this the natn’s two largt gay lobby groups, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force (NGLTF), issued a jot statement nmng Kemp’s anti-gay rerd polics, others were speculatg that Kemp’s rerd bed is anythg but anti-gay.

Associated Prs this week ran a story which one of Kemp’s former mpaign managers was asked about a report datg back nearly 30 years that Kemp participated a wild gay party at a ski b, which he partly owned wh several gay men, Lake story, which Charl Black who managed Kemp’s mpaign 1988 dismissed as “totally unfound”, dat back to 1967 when Kemp worked for then-California Governor, Ronald the party the New York Tim ran an article reportg that a “homosexual rg” was nng Reagan’s office. Later, the mid-1980s, Newsweek ran a report which Kemp mataed his vtment the b was strictly a bs 1986 the San Diego Unn-Tribune reported that an terview the week before on NBC’s Today Show, which Kemp was asked whether he had ever had a homosexual experience, had prompted his handlers to screen future terviews and “bar any that go to the old slanrs agast him” told AP this week the Lake Tahoe story was “a piece of poison”.

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The San Francis Inpennt and the New York gay newspaper LGNY also reported this week that Kemp, 53, who is married wh four children, is mored to be reporter Andy Humm explaed that “when someone beg hailed as supposedly tolerant and mted to civil rights is realy someone who shuts the door fac of gay people on every sgle issue, be relevant if he is homosexual” addn, at least a dozen reports om US gay journalists and activists on Kemp’s supposed gay past have been passed onto Capal Q. Capal Q has, however, been unable to substantiate reports e amid a mood of overwhelmg disappotment on the behalf of gay groups that Dole has picked a right-wg, populist, anti-gay, pro-life ndidate who opposed sanctns on apartheid South Ai, as his choice of nng HRC and the NGLTF last Friday scribed the would-be US Vice-Print as “not as acerbic as some of his lleagu” but nohels someone wh a “solid anti-gay rerd” May this year, mentg on the US Supreme Court’s cisn overturng an anti-gay nstutnal amendment Colorado, Kemp told CNN one judge “was wrong suggtg that the people of Colorado had an animosy toward gay people.

What they were basilly sayg, they shouldn’t get special rights” 1990 he also opposed a non-discrimatn policy and limed fay benefs for gay ernment employe, tellg the unn, acrdg to a Washgton Post report March 1992, he would not approve the ntract “bee the clse has been wily viewed as extendg domtic partnership benefs to gay and lbian employe”, who is a Distguished Fellow of the arch-nservative, right wg policy thk-tank, the Herage Foundatn, also favours firg gay teachers. Also, he played the AFL champnship game five tim and set many of the league’s reer passg leavg the NFL, he reprented wtern New York for ne terms as a ngrsman and left the Hoe 1988 an unsuccsful bid for Jack Kemp Gay: Quarterback and Republin Congrsman.

Secretary of Edutn Margaret Spellgs slammed Bter, an animated rabb, for visg a Vermont girl wh same-sex parents; Print Bh renewed his ll for an anti-gay amendment to the Constutn; and a adly new stra of H. Key (or Randall Terry, the anti-abortn-turned-antigay-rights csar whose son revealed last sprg he is gay) has a gay relative is nothg new.

KEMP WASN’T GAY RG, EX-REAGAN AI SAYS

But for gays and lbians there's somethg particularly satisfyg about watchg a proment antigay nservative learn that his or her own child is homosexual.