Rachel Maddow on Lack of LGBT Rights, Anti-Gay Republins - Variety

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• HOW RACHEL MADDOW BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO HOST A PRIME TIME NEWS SHOW
• RACHEL MADDOW CONONTS JIM DEMT, RALPH REED OVER GAY MARRIAGE ON 'MEET THE PRS' (VIDEO)
• RACHEL MADDOW: GAY MARRIAGE SAVG MARRIAGE MASSACHETTS
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IN JANUARY 2008, MADDOW SIGNED AN EXCLIVE NTRACT WH MSNBC AS S POLIL ANALYST, AND SHE WENT ON TO EARN A SLEW OF AWARDS THROUGH THE TELEVISED VERSN OF THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW.EARLY LIFERACHEL MADDOW WAS BORN ON APRIL 1, 1973, CASTRO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, TO AN ATTORNEY, ROBERT, AND A SCHOOL ADMISTRATOR, ELAE. MADDOW SHOWED AN TERT JOURNALISM AT AN EARLY AGE. SHE STARTED READG THE NEWSPAPER WHEN SHE WAS ONLY SEVEN, NCLUDG HER VER-TO-VER READG SSNS WH PERTENT QUTNS ABOUT WHAT SHE HAD READ. AS A TEEN, MADDOW PETED ON THE SWIMMG, VOLLEYBALL AND BASKETBALL TEAMS AT CASTRO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, BUT A SHOULR JURY PROMPTED HER TO ABANDON SPORTS. MADDOW VOTED THE OPENG HER SCHLE TO VOLUNTEERG AT A LOL AIDS CLIC, THOUGH SHE OPTED NOT TO TELL HER NSERVATIVE PARENTS, WHO HAD RECENTLY LEARNED SHE WAS GAY.IN 1994, MADDOW RECEIVED A BACHELOR'S GREE PUBLIC POLICY OM STANFORD UNIVERSY. AFTER GRADUATN SHE MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS AND BEME AN ACTIVIST FOR THE AIDS ANIZATN ACT UP. HER WORK EARNED HER A RHOS SCHOLARSHIP, MAKG MADDOW THE FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. RINT TO W THE AWARD. MADDOW APPLIED HER SCHOLARSHIP TOWARD ATTENDG OXFORD UNIVERSY, WHERE SHE OBTAED HER DOCTORATE POLIL SCIENCE.RAD CAREERIN 1999 MADDOW LAND A JOB AS -HOST ON WRNX RAD'S THE DAVE THE MORNG SHOW. HER NEXT JOB WAS A TWO-YEAR STT AS HOST OF WRSI'S MORNG SHOW BIG BREAKFAST. IN 2004, SHE DNED FOR AIR AMERI, A NEWLY FOUND LIBERAL RAD WORK, AND HELD A -HOST POSN UNTIL THE SHOW WAS NCELLED 2005. THE NCELLATN TURNED OUT TO BE A BLSG DISGUISE FOR MADDOW, AS AIR AMERI GAVE HER THE CHANCE TO FLY SOLO WH THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW. IT SERVED AS ONE OF AIR AMERI’S HIGHT-RATED PROGRAMS UNTIL THE WORK FOLD EARLY 2010.TV CAREER: 'THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW'IN 2006, MADDOW MANAGED TO PARLAY HER RAD REER TO BLE TELEVISN WHEN SHE BEME A REGULAR ON THE MSNBC SHOW THE SUATN WH TUCKER CARLSON. SHE WAS ALSO A RECURRG GUT ON CNN’S PLA ZAHN NOW DURG THE 2006 MIDTERM ELECTNS. IN JANUARY 2008, MADDOW SIGNED AN EXCLIVE NTRACT WH MSNBC AS THE STATN’S POLIL ANALYST. THAT SEPTEMBER THE LNCH OF HER NIGHTLY BLE TELEVISN PROGRAM, ALSO LLED THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, MARKED MSNBC’S MOST SUCCSFUL SHOW BUT TO DATE. SHE BEME THE WORK'S MOST PROMENT PUBLIC FIGURE, SERVG AS A CHAMPN OF LIBERAL IALS AS THE PARTISAN DIVI BEME MORE PRONOUNCED ON BLE TV NEWS.IN JUNE 2018, MADDOW DREW ATTENTN WHEN SHE BEME TOO EMOTNAL TO READ A BREAKG NEWS REPORT ABOUT THE SEPARATN OF CHILDREN OM PARENTS WHO ILLEGALLY CROSSED THE MEXI-U.S. BORR, FORCG HER TO PASS ON THE RPONSIBILY TO FELLOW MSNBC BROADSTER LAWRENCE O’DONNELL. MADDOW LATER APOLOGIZED ON TWTER FOR BEG UNABLE TO RELAY THE REPORT, WHICH SCRIBED HOW THREE SHELTERS WERE SET UP SOUTH TEXAS TO HOLD PRCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN.AWARDS AND BOOKMADDOW HAS GARNERED A SLEW OF ACLAS FOR HER NEWS WORK, CLUDG MULTIPLE EMMY AND GRACIE WS, THE WALTER CRONKE FAH & FREEDOM AWARD, THE JOHN STEBECK AWARD OM SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSY AND A GLAAD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDG JOURNALISM.ADDNALLY, MADDOW BEME A BT-SELLG THOR WH THE 2012 PUBLITN OF DRIFT: THE UNMOORG OF AMERIN MILARY POWER, WHICH EXAMED AMERIN POLICY AND LEGISLATN THAT AREA OM RECENT S. PERSONAL LIFEMADDOW ME OUT ABOUT HER HOMOSEXUALY WHEN SHE WAS A 17-YEAR-OLD HMAN AT STANFORD. SHE MET HER PARTNER, ARTIST SAN MIKULA, WHEN MADDOW WAS WORKG ODD JOBS MASSACHETTS WHILE FISHG HER DISSERTATN. IN 1999, THE PAIR MOVED TO A FARMHOE RAL MASSACHETTS. IN RECENT YEARS, MADDOW HAS DIVID HER TIME BETWEEN HER HOM NEW YORK AND MASSACHETTS, WHERE SHE HAS NTUED TO RI WH HER GIRLIEND SAN AND THE UPLE'S LABRADOR {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• RACHEL MADDOW INTERVIEW: QUTNS OBAMA’S RE-ELECTN CHANC, GAY MARRIAGE AND THE TEA PARTY
• WATCH: RACHEL MADDOW AND RALPH REED SPAR OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• RACHEL MADDOW ON HOW REPUBLINS ARE ‘RABIDLY ANTI-GAY, LIKE IT’S 1985’

HOW RACHEL MADDOW BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO HOST A PRIME TIME NEWS SHOW

Years before TV host Rachel Maddow climbed to the top of prime time news charts as the first openly gay woman host, she worked her fair share of odd jobs and me out by postg flyers her Stanford dorm. Rachel Maddow, 46, is the first openly gay woman to host a prime time news show wh the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Maddow creds her voted partner of 20 years, artist San Mikula, wh pullg her out of the suicidal feelgs as she stggl wh prsn (pictured together)'Maddow has taken a tly unorthodox path to stardom and never apologized or changed who she is to get to where she is today, ' the thor wr. ' Growg up a Catholic fay near Oakland, California, Maddow said she bldsid her parents when she me out as gay (pictured a 1990 high school yearbook photo) The book reveals her battle wh prsn.

It's like beg paid to eat, ' Maddow left the statn for a year to plete her dissertatn and then went back and stayed until 2004 when she was hired to host a show on the newly lnched Air Ameri, a work that specialized progrsive talk was jt the begng of a succsful reer for Maddow who said, 'I have a face ma for rad if ever there was one' gig segued to beg a foil for the nservative Tucker Carlson's Show on MSNBC three years she was a gut mentator on Carlson's show, Pla Zahn's and Larry Kg's and then segued to gut-hostg for Keh Olbermann for his MSNBC show, were llg her a cross-drsg lbian and a 'transgenred kg' there was always the danger that a homophobic person would ci to threaten vlence or ath.

Maddow me out at Stanford when she posted a letter every bathroom her dorm that she was gay.

RACHEL MADDOW CONONTS JIM DEMT, RALPH REED OVER GAY MARRIAGE ON 'MEET THE PRS' (VIDEO)

That h the llege newspaper (pictured) Maddow says she don't remember readg children's books growg up but stead paged through lol newspapers and her father's law-school books People have lled her a cross-drsg lbian and a 'transgenred kg', and the thor reveals there was always the danger that a homophobic person would ci to threaten vlence or athIt was Olbermann who got Maddow her own show on that work 2008 and spe ocsnal bouts wh prsn that evaporated when she was on the air bee 'oh, hey, this is excg', she lghs off people who thk she's ol, sayg: 'I'm such an old man! Maddow's parents (pictured) were very strict Catholics who monored their dghter closely, but didn't realize she was gay The TV host is a lover of fishg, monster tck ralli and scrib herself as an amatr mixologist of classic cktails Maddow met San when she ran out of money and me back to the U. Me out at Stanford when she posted a letter every bathroom her dorm that she was gay.

That h the llege parents were shocked and huiated but never ught on to her genr wh her closely cropped blue hair, her Doc Martens, baggy jeans wh chas hangg om her belt and her oh-so cky, nontatnal was tough as nails but very funny and the first openly gay Rhos scholar.

RACHEL MADDOW: GAY MARRIAGE SAVG MARRIAGE MASSACHETTS

Maddow me out about her homosexualy when she was a 17-year-old hman at Stanford Universy. They bated gay marriage and joked about banng divorce. "The phemism here is the whole ia that gay marriage is somehow more dangero to marriage than divorce is, right?

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IN JANUARY 2008, MADDOW SIGNED AN EXCLIVE NTRACT WH MSNBC AS S POLIL ANALYST, AND SHE WENT ON TO EARN A SLEW OF AWARDS THROUGH THE TELEVISED VERSN OF THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW.EARLY LIFERACHEL MADDOW WAS BORN ON APRIL 1, 1973, CASTRO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, TO AN ATTORNEY, ROBERT, AND A SCHOOL ADMISTRATOR, ELAE. MADDOW SHOWED AN TERT JOURNALISM AT AN EARLY AGE. SHE STARTED READG THE NEWSPAPER WHEN SHE WAS ONLY SEVEN, NCLUDG HER VER-TO-VER READG SSNS WH PERTENT QUTNS ABOUT WHAT SHE HAD READ. AS A TEEN, MADDOW PETED ON THE SWIMMG, VOLLEYBALL AND BASKETBALL TEAMS AT CASTRO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, BUT A SHOULR JURY PROMPTED HER TO ABANDON SPORTS. MADDOW VOTED THE OPENG HER SCHLE TO VOLUNTEERG AT A LOL AIDS CLIC, THOUGH SHE OPTED NOT TO TELL HER NSERVATIVE PARENTS, WHO HAD RECENTLY LEARNED SHE WAS GAY.IN 1994, MADDOW RECEIVED A BACHELOR'S GREE PUBLIC POLICY OM STANFORD UNIVERSY. AFTER GRADUATN SHE MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS AND BEME AN ACTIVIST FOR THE AIDS ANIZATN ACT UP. HER WORK EARNED HER A RHOS SCHOLARSHIP, MAKG MADDOW THE FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. RINT TO W THE AWARD. MADDOW APPLIED HER SCHOLARSHIP TOWARD ATTENDG OXFORD UNIVERSY, WHERE SHE OBTAED HER DOCTORATE POLIL SCIENCE.RAD CAREERIN 1999 MADDOW LAND A JOB AS -HOST ON WRNX RAD'S THE DAVE THE MORNG SHOW. HER NEXT JOB WAS A TWO-YEAR STT AS HOST OF WRSI'S MORNG SHOW BIG BREAKFAST. IN 2004, SHE DNED FOR AIR AMERI, A NEWLY FOUND LIBERAL RAD WORK, AND HELD A -HOST POSN UNTIL THE SHOW WAS NCELLED 2005. THE NCELLATN TURNED OUT TO BE A BLSG DISGUISE FOR MADDOW, AS AIR AMERI GAVE HER THE CHANCE TO FLY SOLO WH THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW. IT SERVED AS ONE OF AIR AMERI’S HIGHT-RATED PROGRAMS UNTIL THE WORK FOLD EARLY 2010.TV CAREER: 'THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW'IN 2006, MADDOW MANAGED TO PARLAY HER RAD REER TO BLE TELEVISN WHEN SHE BEME A REGULAR ON THE MSNBC SHOW THE SUATN WH TUCKER CARLSON. SHE WAS ALSO A RECURRG GUT ON CNN’S PLA ZAHN NOW DURG THE 2006 MIDTERM ELECTNS. IN JANUARY 2008, MADDOW SIGNED AN EXCLIVE NTRACT WH MSNBC AS THE STATN’S POLIL ANALYST. THAT SEPTEMBER THE LNCH OF HER NIGHTLY BLE TELEVISN PROGRAM, ALSO LLED THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, MARKED MSNBC’S MOST SUCCSFUL SHOW BUT TO DATE. SHE BEME THE WORK'S MOST PROMENT PUBLIC FIGURE, SERVG AS A CHAMPN OF LIBERAL IALS AS THE PARTISAN DIVI BEME MORE PRONOUNCED ON BLE TV NEWS.IN JUNE 2018, MADDOW DREW ATTENTN WHEN SHE BEME TOO EMOTNAL TO READ A BREAKG NEWS REPORT ABOUT THE SEPARATN OF CHILDREN OM PARENTS WHO ILLEGALLY CROSSED THE MEXI-U.S. BORR, FORCG HER TO PASS ON THE RPONSIBILY TO FELLOW MSNBC BROADSTER LAWRENCE O’DONNELL. MADDOW LATER APOLOGIZED ON TWTER FOR BEG UNABLE TO RELAY THE REPORT, WHICH SCRIBED HOW THREE SHELTERS WERE SET UP SOUTH TEXAS TO HOLD PRCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN.AWARDS AND BOOKMADDOW HAS GARNERED A SLEW OF ACLAS FOR HER NEWS WORK, CLUDG MULTIPLE EMMY AND GRACIE WS, THE WALTER CRONKE FAH & FREEDOM AWARD, THE JOHN STEBECK AWARD OM SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSY AND A GLAAD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDG JOURNALISM.ADDNALLY, MADDOW BEME A BT-SELLG THOR WH THE 2012 PUBLITN OF DRIFT: THE UNMOORG OF AMERIN MILARY POWER, WHICH EXAMED AMERIN POLICY AND LEGISLATN THAT AREA OM RECENT S. PERSONAL LIFEMADDOW ME OUT ABOUT HER HOMOSEXUALY WHEN SHE WAS A 17-YEAR-OLD HMAN AT STANFORD. SHE MET HER PARTNER, ARTIST SAN MIKULA, WHEN MADDOW WAS WORKG ODD JOBS MASSACHETTS WHILE FISHG HER DISSERTATN. IN 1999, THE PAIR MOVED TO A FARMHOE RAL MASSACHETTS. IN RECENT YEARS, MADDOW HAS DIVID HER TIME BETWEEN HER HOM NEW YORK AND MASSACHETTS, WHERE SHE HAS NTUED TO RI WH HER GIRLIEND SAN AND THE UPLE'S LABRADOR {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

"Divorce is more dangero to Amerin life than gay marriage.

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"We have to make everybody get gay married, and we have to ban the Bible, and we have to send you to Guantanamo. "A lot of people don't support gay rights, " Carlson said durg a May 2006 segment about a class of high schoolers learng about sexual orientatn public school. "Tucker, learng about the arguments for gay rights don't mean that you are makg those arguments, and you're smart enough to know that.

""As long as they give equal time to the arguments agast gay rights, " Carlson said. It will be gay bashg next week, right?

""This is not an argument for gay rights. Maddow is the first openly gay anchor to host a major prime-time news program the Uned Stat. She beme the first openly gay news anchor to appear on air wh a large news anizatn the Uned Stat.

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Rachel Maddow sparred wh nservativ over gay marriage on Sunday's "Meet the Prs.

" Maddow objected, sayg that nyg same-sex upl the right to marry was "huiatg and meang" for kids raised by gay parents. She ntued: "Gay people exist.

And you guys have been argug for a generatn that public policy ought to sentially mean gay people as a way of exprsg disapproval of the fact that we exist, but you don't make any ls of exist. "Reed said that Maddow's argument would mean that Obama, who first stated his support for gay marriage last May, was a "bigot" until fourteen months ago.