Bob Harper Com Out as Gay on The Biggt Loser

Contents:

• BOB GREEN, ANTI-GAY BIGOT, DI AS RENTFUL AS HE LIVED
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• DID GAYLE KG JT E OUT? OPRAH WEY’S BTIE SAYS ‘I’M GAY’ ON CBS THIS MORNG
• BOB HARPER COM OUT AS GAY ON THE BIGGT LOSER
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• BOB GREEN, ANA BRYANT’S EX-HBAND DIED FULL OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND BLAMG THE GAYS TILL THE BTER END

BOB GREEN, ANTI-GAY BIGOT, DI AS RENTFUL AS HE LIVED

Behd the scen, however, he played an important role creatg the "culture war" that still plagu this Bryant, the anti-gay csar, was his wife. Her mercials hawkg orange juice ma her a faiar face Amerin livg rooms, somethg she ed to her advantage 1977 when she and Bob lnched their anti-gay mpaign. The uple trotted out all the ual anti-gay stereotyp, right down to namg their anizatn Save Our mpaign rulted numero pyts workg to repeal anti-discrimatn laws around the untry -- but only those anti-discrimatn laws that protected the LGBT muny.

Jerry Falwell shed to Miami to support her but stole the lucrative anti-gay issue om unr her by formg his Moral addn to phg the ual stereotyp, Bryant even claimed that her "mistry" was pable of "curg" gay people through prayer. Save Our Children origated most of the talkg pots still ed by the relig right regard to gay people. Some rried prott signs mandg that gay people be executed.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Others serly told me that the prence of homosexuals ed droughts. I jokgly asked if were possible to ntrol floodg by bg homosexuals, and one person serly told me would had a ncert/rally schled South Bend on the Oct. He blamed gays, sayg, "Blame gay people?

He enuraged the csa that lost her the spokwoman reer, and they uldn't out-pete Falwell the anti-gay The Miami Herald Steve Roths wrote, "For more than 30 years, Mr.

DID GAYLE KG JT E OUT? OPRAH WEY’S BTIE SAYS ‘I’M GAY’ ON CBS THIS MORNG

He nvced himself that was all the flt of "the gays" and his ex-wife. Is the olst son of famo anti-gay csars Ana Bryant and Bob Green, who battled the Da County, Fla., ordance banng discrimatn agast gay people and won 1977.

He wants his father to be remembered for more than the fiercely anti-gay stance that me to fe his fay, but Green Jr.

He also has a number of gay iends, a fact he discs unremarkably.

BOB HARPER COM OUT AS GAY ON THE BIGGT LOSER

: He blamed gay and lbian people for the disappotments that followed the aftermath of that for wreckg my mom's reer, which of urse my dad at the time had been very much a part of as her manager as well as her hband. I thk he blamed gay and lbian people some parts for my parent's divorce and the difficulty that my dad had fdg other work. WCT: So, you don't share your parents views on gay rights?

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

: I thk of the four of kids of Bob Green and Ana Bryant, I am probably the most sympathetic towards gay and lbian rights and probably a lot of ways more socially, polilly, religly left of certaly where my parents were at that time. Was your sense that he followg your mom's lead on gay issu? I thk he followed her lead the cisn to fight gay rights.

WCT: Do you thk their battle agast gay rights, as some have suggted, ed the end of their marriage and reers?

It is unfortunate that most people only had gotten to see them through the lens of their posn agast gay rights. WCT: Do you remember when you started actually teractg wh gay people?

BOB GREEN, ANA BRYANT’S EX-HBAND DIED FULL OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND BLAMG THE GAYS TILL THE BTER END

It's not like I sought out this strange forbidn tribe, but I was very open to meetg and talkg wh gays and lbians. Sce then, I've ma iends wh a lot of people, some of whom I didn't know were gay or lbian.

WCT: Were your gay iends aaid to e out to you bee you are the son of Ana Bryant? She's about 70, and she's still amazgly energetic, and she would be puttg a lot more energy to fightg gay rights if she still felt as strongly. "Everybody knows Gayle [Kg].

There's Gayle, there's Maria, there's Bob [Greene]. Gayle and Maria, I met around the same time; Gayle and I [have been iends for] 42 years, Maria and I [have also been iends for] 42 years.