Karl Rove And His Gay Dad - The Atlantic

Contents:

• KARL ROVE AND HIS GAY DAD
• KARL ROVE AND HIS GAY DAD
• BH CAMPAIGN CHIEF AND FORMER RNC CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN: I’M GAY
• WHY I OUTED GAY REPUBLINS

KARL ROVE AND HIS GAY DAD

It's not exactly startlg to see that Karl Rove has nied he was aware his own father was gay, even as he guid the GOP to anti-gay wedge polics the last (the Christianists, he olly lculated, had potentially way more vot for the GOP than gays and their fai). But is important to note that is unte that he had no ia his dad was gay or that he was unaware was the reason for his parents' divorce. But Rove's cynil attempts to wage culture war agast gay upl, servicemembers and our fai surely make this a legimate nnot try to stroy gay upl' marriag while claimg privacy as soon as you face your own divorce or are asked unfortable qutns about squarg your policy posns and your father's fact, Rove's experience is as good an argument as any for gettg over nial and for embracg marriage equaly as any.

KARL ROVE AND HIS GAY DAD

His own fay was torn apart by nial of homosexualy. His experience shows that supprsg, stigmatizg and preventg solid gay relatnships is anti-fay, not pro-fay. Bh's personal ease and faiary and empathy wh the actual gay and transgenr people he knew and worked people should not be monized.

BH CAMPAIGN CHIEF AND FORMER RNC CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN: I’M GAY

He out of the closet and talks about gay marriage, Karl Rove, and Jay L.

WHY I OUTED GAY REPUBLINS

Clenn-Pool/GettyKen Mehlman, Print Bh’s mpaign manager 2004 and a former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee, has told fay and associat that he is gay. He agreed to answer a reporter’s qutns, he said, bee, now private life, he wants to bee an advote for gay marriage and anticipated that qutns would arise about his participatn a late-September fundraiser for the Amerin Foundatn for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California’s ballot iative agast gay marriage, Proposn 8.