What was like to be gay and Republin at a time of gay-bashg polics?
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
He out of the closet and talks about gay marriage, Karl Rove, and more. * karl rove gay *
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).
KARL ROVE AND HIS GAY DAD
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.
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. 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.
He sisted, too, that Print Bh “was no homophobe. ” Mehlman often wonred why gay voters never formed mon e wh Republin opponents of Islamic jihad, which he lled “the greatt anti-gay force the world right now.
WHY I OUTED GAY REPUBLINS
”Mehlman’s learship posns the GOP me at a time when the party was steppg up s anti-gay activi—such as the 2006 distributn Wt Virgia of lerature lkg homosexualy to atheism, or the ls-than-subtle, d language the party’s platform (“Attempts to refe marriage a sgle state or cy uld have ser nsequenc throughout the untry … ”).