Ron Jr. on the rerd: the son of Ronald Reagan breaks his silence regardg the whisper mpaign that he is gay. - Free Onle Library

Contents:

• RON JR. ON THE RERD: THE SON OF RONALD REAGAN BREAKS HIS SILENCE REGARDG THE WHISPER MPAIGN THAT HE IS GAY.
• RONALD REAGAN FEARED SON WAS GAY WHEN HE BEME BALLET DANCER
• OP-ED: THE GAY TTH ABOUT RONALD REAGAN
• THE REAL RERD OF THE REAGANS ON GAYS AND AIDS
• RONALD REAGAN WORRIED HIS SON WAS GAY
• RONALD REAGAN WAS NCERNED HIS SON MIGHT BE GAY

RON JR. ON THE RERD: THE SON OF RONALD REAGAN BREAKS HIS SILENCE REGARDG THE WHISPER MPAIGN THAT HE IS GAY.

Pretty good for a gay guy, " lghs Ron Reagan over iced tea recently Los Angel. Gay buzz has surround the reed-th son of former print Ronald Reagan sce he dropped out of Yale Universy his hman year 1976 to dance wh New York Cy's Jofey Ballet.

It follows him still, even though he and his longtime wife, clil psychologist Dorta Reagan, appear to be happily married, ensnced Seattle wh their three typed as gay "has never bothered me, " says Reagan, 46, a polil mentator for MSNBC and dog show host for Animal Pla.

"Over the years, Reagan says he's been attacked by the gay prs "for not g out. " Also, beg portrayed as a closeted gay man "n be ed as a weapon agast my father, even posthumoly.

RONALD REAGAN FEARED SON WAS GAY WHEN HE BEME BALLET DANCER

" He plans to vote for John outspoken cric of Bh, Reagan ma headl July when he addrsed the Democratic Natnal Conventn support of feral fundg for stem cell is equally passnate about gay marriage.

There's no [clse statg] 'unls you're gay. Ronald Reagan feared his son was gay when he dropped out of Yale to bee a ballet dancerThe 40th print's son went on to marry wife Doria 1980, and the two are still together livg Seattle wh their ts Published: 21:14 BST, 3 June 2014 | Updated: 22:52 BST, 3 June 2014 It has been revealed that Ronald Reagan secretly feared his son was gay when the younger Ron dropped out of Yale 1976 to bee a ballet dancer.

'My dad ventured the opn that all people the arts might not be gay, but there wasn’t much he uld really say about this, and, of urse, we now know Ron’s not gay. ' Worri: Ronald Reagan (left) allegedly feared his son Ron (right) was gay when he dropped out of Yale 1976 to bee a ballet dancer. The Reagan admistratn was blamed for their slow rponse to the AIDs epimic, which pated the print as homophobic sce many believed his son was a closeted gay man.

OP-ED: THE GAY TTH ABOUT RONALD REAGAN

'I'm gay and I'm rich, ' Ron joked to the Seattle Tim an 2011 terview. 'Ron Reagan - rich gay man unacuntably married to the same woman for 30 years. It really gets new members, ” said foundatn -Print Annie Lrie Gaylor of Madison, Wis.

This narrative was further rerced recently the HBO film The Normal Heart, which Reagan is basilly held personally acuntable for the lack of progrs fightg the disease durg his picture that people like to pat of Reagan the LGBT muny is that he was a ferocly antigay zealot who believed that AIDS was a punishment brought down by God upon the gay muny. Now, don't get me wrong: I am not by any means argug that Reagan was perfect when me to gay rights. I know I'm gog to be torn apart by many of the rears of this article, nsirg that I am a young gay progrsive Democrat who wouldn't ordarily e to the fense of a nservative Republin, but ultimately the ntext matters.

On a personal level, those who knew him say Reagan was certaly not any way antigay. Ed Mee, Reagan's attorney general, has said that pictns of Reagan as antigay are "totally unfair and totally unreprentative of his views or anythg he ever said. " Reagan speechwrer Peter Robson said that "the notn that he was somehow llo or had a cel or cynil attu towards homosexuals or AIDS victims is jt ridiculo.

THE REAL RERD OF THE REAGANS ON GAYS AND AIDS

The Reagans had close gay iends throughout their liv, cludg their years some, however, this means nothg. You n be personally pro-gay, many argue, but that don't mean anythg if you're still antigay when to your polici.

Bh, who 2004, regardls of however he may have felt about gays privately, ed his proposed marriage ban as a polil tool wng reelectn.

But Reagan's se, I don't thk the argument mak sense, nsirg his polil rerd was at tim pro-gay too. Believe or not, Reagan was one of the first major policians history to e out for gay rights. Jt a year before he announced his ndidacy for print, he me out forcefully agast Proposn 6 California, which would've barred gay people om teachg public schools.

RONALD REAGAN WORRIED HIS SON WAS GAY

Before that statement, The Advote had lled out Reagan for referrg to gay people as "sick unfortunat" and for stallg repeal of antisodomy laws the state the early '70s. Whatever his mistak were when me to HIV and AIDS, she suggts that the former print kept a live-and-let-live attu when me to gay people, le wh the broar pro-eedom prcipl he poed for father once said that Reagan was "the most thentic man" he'd ever met and that "he didn't have a mean-spired bone his body.

“I’m gay and I’m rich, ” Ron says exaggerated, mock news-anchor voice.

RONALD REAGAN WAS NCERNED HIS SON MIGHT BE GAY

“Ron Reagan — rich gay man unacuntably married to the same woman for 30 years. Of urse he was gay, people thought. There were snickers om the right, but the prsure me om the left: Larry Kramer, one of the earlit and most proment AIDS activists, was one of the lour voic, sayg publicly that Ron was gay.