Calyn Jenner on Gay Marriage: “Everyone Should Be Able to Marry” – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• KUWTK: FANS BLAST CALYN JENNER FOR HYPOCRISY REGARDG GAY RIGHTS
• CALYN JENNER CLARIFI GAY MARRIAGE MENTS
• CALYN JENNER TELLS ELLEN WHY SHE WAS OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE, TALKS ‘STEALTHY’ CROSS-DRSG AS BCE
• CALYN JENNER CONFS SHE USED TO BE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE, HAD “TRADNALIST” VIEWS
• CALYN JENNER IS LEWARM ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CALYN JENNER CLARIFI STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARRY”
• CALYN JENNER’S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE CONF ELLEN
• CALYN JENNER IS STILL LEWARM ON GAY MARRIAGE. THAT SAYS A LOT.

KUWTK: FANS BLAST CALYN JENNER FOR HYPOCRISY REGARDG GAY RIGHTS

Calyn Jenner is unr fire over her past ntroversial remarks on gay rights amid the Keepg Up Wh the Kardashians alum's n for office. Wh Calyn Jenner's current n for office, was only a matter of time before the public rurfaced her past ntroversial ments on gay rights.

To make matters worse, a Twter er recently rurfaced Calyn's past opposn to same-sex marriage and appeared to open the floodgat on the realy star's ntroversial views on gay rights.

Back 2015, Calyn nfed Ellen DeGener on her show after explag her "tradnal" view on gay marriage, Billboard reports. "She still has a judgment about gay marriage, " DeGener said of Jenner. "And I said, 'You're wantg people to unrstand and accept you … and you still have a judgment about gay people and marriage.

CALYN JENNER CLARIFI GAY MARRIAGE MENTS

Still feelg the heat om ments she ma about same-sex marriage to Ellen DeGener, the realy star reerated to Diane Sawyer a pre-taped terview for 20/20, "I am 100 percent behd gay marriage. And you still have a judgment about gay people and marriage, '" DeGener explaed.

" Jenner later released a statement on her webse, statg, "Like many people, there was a time when I didn't realize how important is for gay upl to have the right to get married.

CALYN JENNER TELLS ELLEN WHY SHE WAS OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE, TALKS ‘STEALTHY’ CROSS-DRSG AS BCE

But after hearg om my gay iends and learng more about the hardships they faced bee of discrimatn, beme clear to me that everyone should be able to marry the person they love. “I have to adm that I remember 15 years ago, 20 years ago, whenever was that the whole gay marriage issue me up, at first, I was not for .

"She still has a judgment about gay marriage, " Ellen DeGener told Howard Stern on Tuday's stallment of his SiriXM admted on The Ellen DeGener Show that she prevly had not supported gay marriage. "I said, 'You're wantg people to unrstand and accept you - this is like, really nfg to people, and you still have a judgment about gay people and marriage, '" she said. 8, that she ed to hold rather nservative views about gay marriage when the issue was surfacg 15 to 20 years ago.

CALYN JENNER CONFS SHE USED TO BE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE, HAD “TRADNALIST” VIEWS

But the former Olympic athlete — who is a Republin — admted that her views about gay marriage have evolved over the years. World-famo Olympian and realy star told Ellen DeGener that as a Republin, she holds more nservative views, and when the topic of gay marriage me up 20 years ago, she was not a supporter.

“She still has a judgement about gay marriage.... And you still have a judgement about gay people and marriage, ’” the talk-show host said. Photo / Getty ImagTransgenr realy TV star Calyn Jenner has stunned fans by revealg she wasn't always an advote for gay a taped appearance on Ellen DeGener' US daytime talk show, the former Olympian, who is transng om male to female, nfsed she was ially opposed to same-sex marriage when gays and lbians began fightg for the right to marry.

Calyn Jenner‘s changg her tune on gay marriage. In a new blog post tled “What I’ve Learned, ” the 65-year-old addrsed ments she’d ma about gay marriage on The Ellen DeGener Show last week, when she said she didn’t “que get” the ia of marriage between members of the same sex. “Like many people, ” Jenner wr the post, “there was a time when I didn’t realize how important is for gay upl to have the right to get married.

CALYN JENNER IS LEWARM ON GAY MARRIAGE

Jenner, who nsirs herself a Republin, was cricized for the way she phrased her support for gay marriage on Ellen, which some tractors viewed as reluctant. “She still has a judgment about gay marriage, ” DeGener told Stern.

“And I said, ‘You’re wantg people to unrstand and accept you…and you still have a judgment about gay people and marriage. The woman who is arguably the world's hight-profile transgenr voice is somewhat iffy on whether gay upl should be allowed to an terview wh Ellen DeGener that airs Tuday, Calyn Jenner appears to have trouble rencilg her nservative iology wh supportg same-sex 's what the recently transned head of the Kardashian clan said:At first, I was not for .

"Jenner's equivotn on gay marriage is -- perhaps not surprisgly -- unual for an LGBT Amerin: For the vast majory of LGBT adults, there's ltle iffy-ns when  to marriage, acrdg to a 2013 Pew Rearch Center survey.

CALYN JENNER CLARIFI STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARRY”

Fully 93 percent supported gay marriage, but while 74 percent agreed wh that statement "strongly, " another 18 percent were ls adamant, sayg merely that they favored gay 7 percent of LGBT adults said they opposed same-sex marriage. Opposn to gay marriage LGBT circl was heavily centered on the bisexual muny, who should be noted wouldn't necsarily be prevented om marryg if were still outlawed, and among Republins.

Jt 2 and 4 percent of lbians and gays opposed .

CALYN JENNER’S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE CONF ELLEN

Have voted an entire realy TV seri, "I Am Ca, " to the, the Supreme Court clared  June that gay people have the right to be legally married.

Y, public opn had already long sce cid that gay marriage was the fact that one of the LGBT movement's lears don't feel pletely fortable wh gay marriage suggts the issue isn't always as cut-and-dry as appears.

CALYN JENNER IS STILL LEWARM ON GAY MARRIAGE. THAT SAYS A LOT.

It jt isn't fair, and we have to protect girls' sports our schools, " she brand Jenner the "Phyllis Schlafly of the trans muny, " a reference to the anti-femist, anti-gay rights, and anti-abortn nservative activist who famoly worked to stop the Equal Rights Amendment, the Mercury News reported at the time. Calyn Jenner's tweet enuragg her followers to "fight discrimatn" agast the LGBTQ muny saw her labelled a "disgrace" and a "hypocre" due to her polics and prev ments agast gay marriage and transgenr girls petg sports.

In a 2015 terview wh Ellen DeGener, Jenner said she was a "tradnalist" when me to the subject of gay marriage, tellg the talk show host: "I kda like tradn and 's always been a man and a woman. Jenner later clarified her ments a statement that admted "there was a time when she didn't realise how important is for gay upl to have the right to get married" but she now believed . ' And I said, 'No, I jt said I'm for gay marriage.

And says I was agast gay marriage and absolutely burnt my ass. '"DeGener then told Stern that Calyn "still has a judgment about gay marriage.