Aangirfan: GAY KENNEDYS

Contents:

• MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND
• JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER
• GAY HISTORY: JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A GAY BT FRIEND WHO EVEN HAD HIS OWN ROOM AT THE WHE HOE
• UPDATE: JFK’S GRANDSON JACK DENI HE’S GAY, SAYS TWEET WAS FROM ONLE IMPERSONATOR
• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• EXCLIVE: THE TIMATE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN JFK AND HIS GAY IEND
• GAY KENNEDY

MEMORI OF JFK FROM HIS GAY BT FRIEND

While he was on the urt, Kennedy was the cisive vote for the urt’s 5-4 pro-gay rights lgs. He wrote each of the urt’s landmark gay rights cisns, outlawg bans on same-sex sexual nduct, LGBTQ polil advocy and same-sex marriage at the state and feral level. Havg tracked judicial progrs on gay rights over the last , I’d argue that Kennedy’s retirement puts this doctre, and the movement, jeopardy.

Although his lgs on same-sex relatnships have hered new eedoms for lbian and gay upl, they rt on agile nstutnal arguments. Wh Kennedy’s retirement, there is greater opportuny for anti-gay activists to dismantle the urt’s tenuo legal amework supportg gay rights.

JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER

Kennedy joed the urt 1988 as a Reagan appotee whose only cisn on gay rights, wrten durg his tenure on the 9th Circu Court of Appeals, narrowly upheld ary regulatns prohibg “homosexual nduct.

In 1996, ls than a after his appotment to the urt, Kennedy would thor his first of multiple Supreme Court cisns protectg the rights of lbians and gay men. If upheld, the amendment would have renred any discrimatn agast gays or lbians hog, employment and public acmodatns both legal and untouchable. The state argued that they were protectg the “liberti of landlords or employers who have personal or relig objectns to homosexualy” and were dog “no more than ny[g] homosexuals special rights.

The policy, Kennedy stated, was “born of animosy toward the class of persons affected” and renred members of the gay muny “unequal to everyone else.

GAY HISTORY: JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A GAY BT FRIEND WHO EVEN HAD HIS OWN ROOM AT THE WHE HOE

For the gay muny, Romer marked what New York Tim reporter Lda Greenhoe scribed as a “historic shift the Court’s rponse to anti-gay discrimatn, ” stoppg other stat om followg su. It also provid “a strong statement” agast anti-gay discrimatn, bee was livered by “a nservative member of a basilly nservative Court. While Kennedy’s lgs have stck down important limatns on lbian and gay rights, he has risted treatg the LGBTQ muny as historilly exclud – leavg them wh a far ls certa set of legal protectns.

Bans on same-sex sexual timacy licensed private cizens to treat lbians and gay men as crimal. Free om the prumptn of crimaly, lbians and gay men now had legal leverage to live openly and to fight for full equaly. Kennedy’s gay rights doctre is relatively new and still highly ntted.

UPDATE: JFK’S GRANDSON JACK DENI HE’S GAY, SAYS TWEET WAS FROM ONLE IMPERSONATOR

There is no doubt that Jtice Kennedy’s legacy has brought about an era of unprecented – even unimaged – rights for gays and lbians. 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.

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

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. But Roosevelt's rerd has a few blemish, one of which had a direct impact on gay Amerins.

EXCLIVE: THE TIMATE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN JFK AND HIS GAY IEND

"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. Vannberg Jr., who lost a job Print Eisenhower's admistratn when Hoover told Eisenhower that Vannberg was gay.

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.

GAY KENNEDY

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. " 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.