John F. Kennedy had a three-s-long iendship wh his former schoolmate Lem Billgs. Print John F. Kennedy may have had an timate relatnship wh a gay iend om his prep school days, claims btsellg thor Jerry Oppenheimer, who has wrten two books about the Kennedys.
Contents:
- JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER
- UPDATE: JFK’S GRANDSON JACK DENI HE’S GAY, SAYS TWEET WAS FROM ONLE IMPERSONATOR
- BILL KENNEDY OUT AS SEND ACTIVE OPENLY GAY NBA OFFICIAL
JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER
Kennedy may have had an timate relatnship wh a gay iend om his prep school days, claims btsellg thor Jerry Oppenheimer, who has wrten two books about the Kennedys. Kennedy and Billgs met 1933 their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclive Connecticut prep school. David Pts, the thor of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship, told him: “Lem was a gay man and he had a 14-year-old, good-lookg kid livg his hoe wh him and there had been mors bee of that.
I did not wre the article and, for the rerd, am not gay. And he’s also gay.
The 21-year-old is edor chief of Yale blog The Bulldog, and this morng he sent his twter followers to an article he’d posted tled Beg Gay At Yale. But Roosevelt's rerd has a few blemish, one of which had a direct impact on gay Amerins. "Hoover thought many left-leang Amerins posed a threat to the natn, and he thought the same of gay people -- even though there's reason to believe Hoover was gay himself and a long-term relatnship wh ai Cly Tolson.
UPDATE: JFK’S GRANDSON JACK DENI HE’S GAY, SAYS TWEET WAS FROM ONLE IMPERSONATOR
Vannberg Jr., who lost a job Print Eisenhower's admistratn when Hoover told Eisenhower that Vannberg was gay. " That fn clud, evably, homosexualy. The ratnale was that gay people were likely to be blackmailed and therefore posed a threat to natnal secury.
"Many loyal Amerins, by reason of stabily, alholism, homosexualy, or prev tennci to associate wh Communist-ont groups, are untentnally secury risks, " Ike himself wrote, although he also admted feelg guilty over his treatment of Vannberg. Civil Service Commissn lifted the orr 1975, and the Department of Defense, which had ed to ny secury clearanc to gays and lbians, gradually ceased s "tensive qutng of gays...
JohnsonKennedy and Johnson may have never thought their civil rights law would be terpreted as protectg LGBT people, but Kennedy, at least, would probably approve -- his bt iend was a gay man, Lem Billgs. Also, the EEOC has held that Tle VII's protectns extend to discrimatn agast gay, lbian, and bisexual employe, if the discrimatn aris out of genr stereotyp.
BILL KENNEDY OUT AS SEND ACTIVE OPENLY GAY NBA OFFICIAL
" Its Office of Civil Rights will therefore vtigate such claims, offerg a means of relief for transgenr and, to some extent, lbian, gay, and bisexual CarterCarter, who intifi as a "born-aga" Christian, is proof that ep relig fah need not go hand hand wh homophobia. In 1976, as a ndidate, he had ma clear he would sign a gay rights bill, and 1977, durg his princy, the first-ever gay and lbian legatn vised the Whe Hoe to discs policy issu wh admistratn officials. The Briggs Iniative, which would have barred gays and lbians om teachg the state's public schools -- and the proposn was ed voted down.
When he ran for reelectn 1980, he agreed to a gay rights plank the Democratic Party platform, a first.
He has famoly said, "I never knew of any word or actn of J Christ that discrimated agast anyone, " and has endorsed marriage ReaganReagan's greatt effect on the gay populatn was undoubtedly his rponse, or lack thereof, to a disease that took the liv of many gay men. Although the former actor was apparently personally fortable wh gay people, he drew much of his support om the antigay relig right, such as Jerry Falwell and his so-lled Moral Majory, and officials his admistratn clud such notor homophob as Gary Ber and Pat Buchanan.