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Contents:
- SHE’S GAY AND A REPUBLIN. IS THERE A PLACE FOR HER THE G.O.P.?
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- HOW TO BE GAY AND REPUBLIN
- WHAT IT’S LIKE FOR SOME GAY MEN TO COME OUT AS REPUBLIN
- JENNA LYONS ON BEG OUTED (AND HER FAKE TEETH)SHE OPENED UP ABOUT THE GEIC DISORR THAT LED HER TO G FAKE TEETH, HAIR, AND EYEBROWS. “MY HAIR IS ALSO FAKE, I N TAKE OFF, ’S LIKE A HAT."BY KASE WICKMANJULY 20, 2023FROM NATHAN CONGLETON/NBC VIA GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJENNA LYONS, FORMER HEAD SIGNER AND PRINT OF J. CREW, MAY BE A STYLE IN, BUT, EVEN OVER A LATER, BEG OUTED BEFORE SHE WAS READY TO SHARE HER SEXUALY STILL SMARTS.IN AN TERVIEW WEDNDAY ON THE VIEW, LYONS RELLED BEG PUBLICLY OUTED, THE MIDST OF HER 2011 DIVORCE OM VCENT MAZE. WHEN AN OUTLET LLED AND ASKED FOR NFIRMATN OF WHETHER SHE WAS GAY, SHE SAID, “I WAS SO OVERWHELMED WH EVERYTHG THAT WAS HAPPENG MY LIFE THAT I JT SAID Y.”SHE LLED BEG ASKED BY THE NEW YORK POST TO NFIRM OR NY WHETHER SHE WAS A LBIAN “AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE.”“I DIDN’T EXPECT ANYONE TO RE ABOUT WHAT I WAS DOG MY PERSONAL LIFE, AND ALL OF A SUDN EVERYONE RED,” SHE SAID, RELLG THAT THE STORY WAS MA PUBLIC BEE “SOMEONE LLED THE POST AND SAID LOOKED LIKE I WAS HAVG AN TIMATE DNER WH SOMEONE AT A RTRANT.”“I DON’T KNOW WHY,” SHE SAID, “BUT I JT SAID ‘NFIRM.’”THE NEXT DAY, SHE H THE NEWSSTANDS OF NEW YORK AND SOPED UP ALL THE PI OF THE POST SHE ULD FD. “FOR THE RERD, I WENT AND BOUGHT ALMOST EVERY SGLE ONE MANHATTAN,” SHE SAID.THOUGH THE CIRCUMSTANC SURROUNDG HER OUTG STILL STG, LYONS SAID THAT SHE’S PROUD TO BE A POSIVE REPRENTATN OF QUEER PEOPLE THE WORLD AND RELLED HOW YOUNGER EMPLOYE AT J. CREW WOULD TELL HER, “MY MOM IS SO RELIEVED TO SEE SOMEONE SUCCSFUL WHO’S OPENLY GAY.” NOW, TOO, SHE'S THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ST MEMBER ON THE REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK.DURG THE APPEARANCE, SHE ALSO OPENED UP ABOUT A GEIC DISORR SHE WAS BORN WH, NTENTIA PIGMENTI, THAT VISIBLY IMPACTS A PERSON’S SK, HAIR, TEETH, AND MORE.“ALL MY TEETH ARE FAKE,” SHE SAID, LGHG AT A PLIMENT AND RPONDG THAT “I PAID A LOT OF MONEY FOR THEM.”“MY HAIR IS ALSO FAKE, I N TAKE OFF, ’S LIKE A HAT,” SHE SAID. “MY EYELASH ARE FAKE, I HAVE NO EYEBROWS, I ALSO HAVE SRS ALL OVER MY SK.”HER NDN HAS SPIRED HER: WHEN SHE ULDN’T FD FAKE EYELASH THAT SHE FELT SUED HER, SHE MA HER OWN AND CREATED HER PANY, LOVESEEN. COPG WH HER HEALTH IS ALSO PART OF THE ORIG STORY FOR HER ONGOG, EPIC LIFE FASHN.“IT’S ONE OF THE REASONS I WENT TO FASHN,” SHE SAID, “BEE I WANTED TO LOOK BETTER. I WAS NSTANTLY TRYG TO FD WAYS TO F .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT SER SETBACKBY BS LEVGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEKASE WICKMAN
- TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
- SURPRISE, SURPRISE: GAY REPUBLINS REALLY ARE SELF-LOATHG, STUDY FDS
SHE’S GAY AND A REPUBLIN. IS THERE A PLACE FOR HER THE G.O.P.?
* can you be gay and republican *
In orr to better unrstand the relatnship between sexual mory and polil inti, we examed five ditors that scribe the relatnship people have wh their lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) inty and their nnectn wh the LGBT muny. Internalized Homophobia. One signal — Jtice Clarence Thomas wrote a ncurrg opn that, alongsi abortn, lgs protectg same-sex relatnships and marriage should also be Ann Henry n remember a moment jt a few years ago when she felt there might be a possibily that the Republin uld actually move forward on gay rights.
And wh a half e —lulu garcia-navarroI image that that environment there weren’t a lot out gay and lbian people around you. I thk there was a gay male uple our neighborhood that everybody jt sort of referred to as “The Boys” and didn’t want to say what they were.
But we don’t do garcia-navarroDo you remember when you might have first heard the word gay or lbian, what you thought about those words and people who are associated wh them? The word lbian — I thk I had — maybe more than the word gay, the word lbian was maybe almost ed as a rogatory term.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
<b>Gay nservativ expla their support for both Mt Romney and marriage between gay upl.</b> * can you be gay and republican *
Whether she plays for our team, the gay ’t the bisexuals have their own team? And we’re all stg around talkg about datg and whatnot, and one of my iends who was gay and out said somethg. You said there were two ann henryThe send story was, I was on an email thread wh a ton of people, and they were batg — there was a ton of people, nsultants and otherwise, Republin staffers at many different levels on a number of different projects, talkg back and forth about how to navigate some tough polil issu related to gay dividuals.
Everybody had an opn about, oh, well, we n’t say this bee the gays would thk that. Or what about the gays here? And was like this cliche “the gays, ” “the gays, ” “the gays, ” jt very broad I jt replied to all, and I was like as a lbian who n wear high heels but also manage power tools, I thk you guys are all a ltle b garcia-navarroYou did reply all?
None of them are prumably openly gay? There were many people that I knew that I worked wh that — they may have accepted me and loved me personally but did not support homosexualy for relig reasons or whatever, and I knew that.
HOW TO BE GAY AND REPUBLIN
This is a moment where the Republin Party is still really phg back agast gay rights.
I wonr, as you nsired whether would be possible to be out wh the reer you had chosen, how you sort of unrstood that dichotomy of the posn, though, polilly on gay rights? Archived rerdgWh rpect to the issue of whether gays and lbians should be able to get married, I stggle wh this. As a nservative, didn’t really give me pse bee I learned so early on and still hold as my own belief, dividual liberty is so herent to what mak, I thk, Ameri different and what we should be supportg and should be much of what I saw as issue was not jt bee of my personal tert as a gay Amerin but bee I felt was ntrary to that belief.
WHAT IT’S LIKE FOR SOME GAY MEN TO COME OUT AS REPUBLIN
Issu for ann garcia-navarroAnd gay marriage is the ma thg on the agenda. It has to do wh gay upl’ opportuny to ann henryWe had — at the time, members of Congrs started to e forward, not all the time, but we did have right-of-center Rob Portman, others put themselv on the le bee they believed this was a big enough al, too. Archived rerdg (rob portman)My son me to Jane, my wife, and I, told that he was gay, and that was not a choice, and that he that’s jt part of who he is, and he’d been that way ever sce he uld remember.
It was marriage, if you thk about , we are at the water’s edge of the argument that mastream Christian teachg is hate speech bee today we’ve reached the pot our society where if you do not support same-sex marriage you are labeled a homophobe and a hater. [MUSIC]Annual Gay Pri paras took on new meang on Sunday as people poured to the cy streets to celebrate the Supreme Court’s lg legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi.
JENNA LYONS ON BEG OUTED (AND HER FAKE TEETH)SHE OPENED UP ABOUT THE GEIC DISORR THAT LED HER TO G FAKE TEETH, HAIR, AND EYEBROWS. “MY HAIR IS ALSO FAKE, I N TAKE OFF, ’S LIKE A HAT."BY KASE WICKMANJULY 20, 2023FROM NATHAN CONGLETON/NBC VIA GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJENNA LYONS, FORMER HEAD SIGNER AND PRINT OF J. CREW, MAY BE A STYLE IN, BUT, EVEN OVER A LATER, BEG OUTED BEFORE SHE WAS READY TO SHARE HER SEXUALY STILL SMARTS.IN AN TERVIEW WEDNDAY ON THE VIEW, LYONS RELLED BEG PUBLICLY OUTED, THE MIDST OF HER 2011 DIVORCE OM VCENT MAZE. WHEN AN OUTLET LLED AND ASKED FOR NFIRMATN OF WHETHER SHE WAS GAY, SHE SAID, “I WAS SO OVERWHELMED WH EVERYTHG THAT WAS HAPPENG MY LIFE THAT I JT SAID Y.”SHE LLED BEG ASKED BY THE NEW YORK POST TO NFIRM OR NY WHETHER SHE WAS A LBIAN “AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE.”“I DIDN’T EXPECT ANYONE TO RE ABOUT WHAT I WAS DOG MY PERSONAL LIFE, AND ALL OF A SUDN EVERYONE RED,” SHE SAID, RELLG THAT THE STORY WAS MA PUBLIC BEE “SOMEONE LLED THE POST AND SAID LOOKED LIKE I WAS HAVG AN TIMATE DNER WH SOMEONE AT A RTRANT.”“I DON’T KNOW WHY,” SHE SAID, “BUT I JT SAID ‘NFIRM.’”THE NEXT DAY, SHE H THE NEWSSTANDS OF NEW YORK AND SOPED UP ALL THE PI OF THE POST SHE ULD FD. “FOR THE RERD, I WENT AND BOUGHT ALMOST EVERY SGLE ONE MANHATTAN,” SHE SAID.THOUGH THE CIRCUMSTANC SURROUNDG HER OUTG STILL STG, LYONS SAID THAT SHE’S PROUD TO BE A POSIVE REPRENTATN OF QUEER PEOPLE THE WORLD AND RELLED HOW YOUNGER EMPLOYE AT J. CREW WOULD TELL HER, “MY MOM IS SO RELIEVED TO SEE SOMEONE SUCCSFUL WHO’S OPENLY GAY.” NOW, TOO, SHE'S THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ST MEMBER ON THE REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK.DURG THE APPEARANCE, SHE ALSO OPENED UP ABOUT A GEIC DISORR SHE WAS BORN WH, NTENTIA PIGMENTI, THAT VISIBLY IMPACTS A PERSON’S SK, HAIR, TEETH, AND MORE.“ALL MY TEETH ARE FAKE,” SHE SAID, LGHG AT A PLIMENT AND RPONDG THAT “I PAID A LOT OF MONEY FOR THEM.”“MY HAIR IS ALSO FAKE, I N TAKE OFF, ’S LIKE A HAT,” SHE SAID. “MY EYELASH ARE FAKE, I HAVE NO EYEBROWS, I ALSO HAVE SRS ALL OVER MY SK.”HER NDN HAS SPIRED HER: WHEN SHE ULDN’T FD FAKE EYELASH THAT SHE FELT SUED HER, SHE MA HER OWN AND CREATED HER PANY, LOVESEEN. COPG WH HER HEALTH IS ALSO PART OF THE ORIG STORY FOR HER ONGOG, EPIC LIFE FASHN.“IT’S ONE OF THE REASONS I WENT TO FASHN,” SHE SAID, “BEE I WANTED TO LOOK BETTER. I WAS NSTANTLY TRYG TO FD WAYS TO F .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT SER SETBACKBY BS LEVGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEKASE WICKMAN
Didn’t so much accept gay rights or embrace this cultural change, but kd of reached this pot of — I thk the word I’m lookg for I gus is acquicence ann garcia-navarroBut they do start to turn stead to look at trans rights, and that be the next cultural battleground. Wh the Obergefell cisn and marriage equaly, I believe there were a lot of people — and I will jt say, among Log Cab, wr large, so gay Republins the Republin Party — I thk there were a lot of people who sort of felt like, OK, we won. But we do have to make sure he knows the full picture of what’s happeng and do better tn so that he n protect his child and know that a trans person the bathroom wh his child is not a safety ’s a different way that you uld view the anizatn, and that is that we are an extensn of the Republin Party ma up of gay dividuals, so not necsarily advotg for L.
Rights but advotg for Republin programs, and polici, and ndidat as gay garcia-navarroWhat I’m hearg you say, I thk, is that there’s two different terpretatns of the role of the Log Cab Republins. But we’re also seeg signs that the party is once aga takg up the issue of gay rights.
TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
I’m thkg of the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn Florida.
The Log Cab Republins, the group you disagreed wh on trans issu but which exists and was found to support gay rights, is actually now supportg the “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn. And I was hopg that you’d help me unrstand why they would support somethg that the wir gay muny se as ann henrySo I thk the bate there and where there’s — and by the way, I haven’t — I rigned several years ago, so there’s a lot of time that’s passed, and they will do what they I thk there’s a group of people on, I would say, the more right-of-center si who believe that the quote, unquote “Don’t Say Gay” bill don’t apply to actually not sayg gay. That’s do create an environment that mak impossible for, say, gay teachers or gay parents to be part of that muny, and we know, historilly, how thgs like this turn out.
Only 41% of Republins a new Gallup poll said gay or lbian relatns were morally acceptable. The right-wg mpaign to tar LGBTQ people wh false allegatns of pedophilia appears to be havg an impact on Republins, a majory of whom said a recent poll that same-sex relatns were the poll last month, the latt edn of a survey that Gallup nducts annually, jt 41% of Republins said gay or lbian relatns were morally acceptable, a 15-percentage-pot drop om 2022.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE: GAY REPUBLINS REALLY ARE SELF-LOATHG, STUDY FDS
Democratic approval also fell to 79% om share of pennts sayg same-sex relatns are morally acceptable has remaed steady the Gallup poll recent years, wh 73% exprsg approval 2023 pared wh 72% the year sharp drop support among some Amerins follows an pecially aggrsive year of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and the past year, right-wg activists and policians have creasgly attacked LGBTQ muni, claimg that public-school teachers are "groomg" stunts by acknowledgg the existence of gay or transgenr attacks have led school districts across the untry to pull books om librari over claims that pictns of gay or transgenr relatnships are "pornographic. Overall, 64% of Amerins the latt Gallup poll said gay or lbian relatns were "morally acceptable, " still a nsirable difference om 2001, when jt 40% of rponnts to the same poll exprsed approval of "homosexual behavr, " as the qutn was word at the time. Approval of gay and lbian relatns the Gallup poll h a rerd high last year, when 71% of Amerins said such relatns were morally permissible — cludg 56% of Republins.
Correctn: June 21, 2023 — An earlier versn of this story misstated the change sce 2022 the share of Republins who told Gallup that gay or lbian relatns were morally acceptable. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBehd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G.
11, 2022WASHINGTON — When the Senate passed landmark legislatn last month to mandate feral regnn for same-sex marriag, the vote was ld as a rare moment of bipartisanship at a time of ep polil polarizatn the the narrow aln of 12 Republins that joed every Democrat support of the measure — which cleared Congrs on Thursday wh fal passage the Hoe, sendg to Print Bin — did not sprg up spontaneoly a groundswell of cross-party the scen, a group of fluential Republin donors and operativ, cludg some of the party’s most proment gay lears wh long experience proddg their party to embrace L. Senators that backg would give them a polil quiet work helps expla how a bill to ensure regnn of same-sex marriag across the untry went om beg the subject of an electn-season polil manver that few expected to be enacted to an iative embraced by a cisive majory of senators, and an unexpected victory for the gay rights movement that will be one of the fal acts of the Democratic-ntrolled Congrs.