The book “Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billgs: The Untold Story of an Extraordary Friendship,” tails the extraordary relatnship between two unlikely iends. JFK, or ‘Jack’ as he was known by his close iends and fay, had a gay bt iend named Lem Billgs, who he met prep school when Kennedy…
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
Print John F. Kennedy was killed Dallas 50 years ago, leavg behd a mourng natn and his gay bt iend, Lem Billgs. * gay kennedys *
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.
JFK MAY HAVE HAD GAY EXPERIENC WH IEND CLAIMS BGRAPHER
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. * gay kennedys *
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.
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.
GAY HISTORY: JOHN F. KENNEDY HAD A GAY BT FRIEND WHO EVEN HAD HIS OWN ROOM AT THE WHE HOE
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * gay kennedys *
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. 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.
UPDATE: JFK’S GRANDSON JACK DENI HE’S GAY, SAYS TWEET WAS FROM ONLE IMPERSONATOR
* gay kennedys *
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.
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
One of his clost relatnships was wh his gay bt iend and prep school roommate. * gay kennedys *
Free om the prumptn of crimaly, lbians and gay men now had legal leverage to live openly and to fight for full equaly.
EXCLIVE: THE TIMATE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN JFK AND HIS GAY IEND
Kennedy’s gay rights doctre is relatively new and still highly ntted. There is no doubt that Jtice Kennedy’s legacy has brought about an era of unprecented – even unimaged – rights for gays and lbians.
GAY KENNEDY
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. 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.