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• KEN MEHLMAN, BH CAMPAIGN MANAGER, COM OUT AS GAY
• FORMER RNC CHAIRMAN KEN MEHLMAN COM OUT: I'M GAY
• BH CAMPAIGN CHIEF AND FORMER RNC CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN: I’M GAY
• KEN MEHLMAN: 'I AM SORRY' FOR ROLE IN 2004 ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PH
• BILL MAHER IN 2006: KEN MEHLMAN IS GAY (VIDEO)
• INSI MY COLLECTN: ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN
• KEN MEHLMAN APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY TONE OF 2004 CAMPAIGN

KEN MEHLMAN, BH CAMPAIGN MANAGER, COM OUT AS GAY

Former Republin Natnal Commtee chairman and Bh-Cheney mpaign manager Ken Mehlman has announced publicly that he is gay, CBS News chief polil nsultant and polics edor for The Atlantic Marc Ambr reports. Mehlman told Ambr that he had recently e to the ncln that he is gay and was lookg to bee an advote for gay marriage.

FORMER RNC CHAIRMAN KEN MEHLMAN COM OUT: I'M GAY

He went public part bee he expected to be asked about his sexualy when beme known he was participatg a fundraiser next month for the Amerin Foundatn for Equal Rights (AFER), which is supportg a legal challenge to California's Proposn 8 iative banng gay marriage.

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

Mehlman said Print Bh "is no homophobe" but acknowledged that the Bh admistratn ed antigay iativ for polil ga. (Mehlman regularly nied that he was gay.

) Rogers rpond to the news that Mehlman was g out by awardg him a "Roy Cohn Award" for "managg the most anti-gay printial mpaigns history.

KEN MEHLMAN: 'I AM SORRY' FOR ROLE IN 2004 ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PH

"Ken Mehlman is horridly homophobic and no matter how orchtrated his g out is, our muny should hold him acuntable for his past, " Rogers wrote.

BILL MAHER IN 2006: KEN MEHLMAN IS GAY (VIDEO)

Mehlman told Ambr he unrstands that some people the gay muny will be upset that he did not e out until he was out of ernment. He acknowledged that if he had e to terms wh his sexual orientatn earlier, "I uld have worked agast [the Feral Marriage Amendment]" and "reached out to the gay muny the way I reached out to Ain Amerins.

INSI MY COLLECTN: ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN

But I certaly hope that Republins will make their se on lots of different issu, to all different muni — to the gay muny, and to other muni. At what pot did you ci you were for gay marriage?

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 be asked 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. "Mehlman head the RNC when the Republin Party was phg anti-gay iativ and creasgly speakg out agast marriage equaly.

Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillpie and Mehlman's longtime iend lled Mehlman's g-out "signifint, " but add that he remas opposed to gay marriage. RelatedgayPolics ken mehlmanlgbtRNCPopular the CommunyYou May Like. He out of the closet and talks about gay marriage, Karl Rove, and Jay L.

KEN MEHLMAN APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY TONE OF 2004 CAMPAIGN

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.