Former RNC Chairman Com Out: I'm Gay
Contents:
- KEN MEHLMAN, BH CAMPAIGN MANAGER, COM OUT AS GAY
- BH CAMPAIGN CHIEF AND FORMER RNC CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN: I’M GAY
- FORMER G.O.P. LEAR SAYS HE IS GAY
- KEN MEHLMAN, SENR REPUBLIN PARTY FIGURE, REVEALS HE IS GAY
- FORMER REPUBLIN PARTY CHAIRMAN KEN MEHLMAN ADMS HE'S GAY
- SENR REPUBLIN KEN MEHLMAN OUT AS GAY
- FORMER RNC CHAIRMAN KEN MEHLMAN COM OUT: I'M GAY
- KEN MEHLMAN'S GAY DILEMMA: INSI THE MD OF A CONFLICTED MAN
KEN MEHLMAN, BH CAMPAIGN MANAGER, COM OUT AS GAY
Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Says Took Him 43 Years to Accept his Sexualy; Gay Activist Giv him "Roy Cohn Award" for Managg Bh-Cheney Campaigns * ken mehlman is 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. 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.
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 is horridly homophobic and no matter how orchtrated his g out is, our muny should hold him acuntable for his past, " Rogers wrote. 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.
BH CAMPAIGN CHIEF AND FORMER RNC CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN: I’M GAY
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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. He out of the closet and talks about gay marriage, Karl Rove, and Jay L.
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.
” Mehlman often wonred why gay voters never formed mon e wh Republin opponents of Islamic jihad, which he lled “the greatt anti-gay force the world right now. ”Mehlman’s learship posns the GOP me at a time when the party was steppg up s anti-gay activi—such as the 2006 distributn Wt Virgia of lerature lkg homosexualy to atheism, or the ls-than-subtle, d language the party’s platform (“Attempts to refe marriage a sgle state or cy uld have ser nsequenc throughout the untry … ”). He was aware that Karl Rove, Print Bh’s chief strategic adviser, had been workg wh Republins to make sure that anti-gay iativ and referenda would appear on November ballots 2004 and 2006 to help Republins.
FORMER G.O.P. LEAR SAYS HE IS GAY
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Mehlman acknowledg that if he had publicly clared his sexualy sooner, he might have played a role keepg the party om phg an anti-gay agenda.
I didn’t do this the gay muny at all. ”He said that he “really wished” he had e to terms wh his sexual orientatn earlier, “so I uld have worked agast [the Feral Marriage Amendment]” and “reached out to the gay muny the way I reached out to Ain Amerins. He and his iends say that he is aware that he will no longer ntrol the story about his inty—which will simultaneoly expose old wounds, ve schanue, and legimize anger among gay-rights activists both parti who did not hi their sexual orientatns.
KEN MEHLMAN, SENR REPUBLIN PARTY FIGURE, REVEALS HE IS GAY
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He was the subject of an outg mpaign by gay-rights activist Mike Rogers, startg when Mehlman was Bh’s mpaign manager. Rogers’s csas agast closeted gay Republins spl the anized gay lobby Washgton but were undoubtedly effective: He drove several elected officials, cludg Virgia Reprentative Ed Shrock, om office, phed out a would-be printial mpaign manager for Gee Allen well before Allen was set to n, slung mors about Senator Larry Craig’s sexual orientatn well before Craig’s cint a Mneapolis airport bathroom, and even managed to make homosexualy a wedge issue wh the party’s activist 2006, Rogers ught up to Mehlman and asked him why he gave “so many nfg answers to social nservativ about your homosexualy, ” and followed up by askg whether Mehlman knew of a man who Rogers had claimed was Mehlman’s secret partner. Mehlman nied to Rogers that he had given nflictg answers and said that the man qutn was a law-school several discsns I’ve had wh Mehlman sce he stepped down om the Republin Natnal Commtee 2007, he never volunteered rmatn about his sexual orientatn, although charg that he helped pri over a rurgence anti-gay sentiment were clearly an ongog burn to disclosure at this stage of Mehlman’s life strik one close iend as beg like a cisn to jump off of a high divg board: Mehlman knows that there is plenty of water below, but is still ighteng to look down and make the leap.
Mehlman is the most powerful Republin history to intify as gay. Bee his tenure as RNC chairman and his time at the center of the Bh polil mache cid wh the Republin Party’s attempts to explo anti-gay prejudic and cement the allegiance of social nservativ, his claratn to the world is at once a personal act and an act of polil speech.
FORMER REPUBLIN PARTY CHAIRMAN KEN MEHLMAN ADMS HE'S GAY
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Mehlman once joked public that although he was not gay, the mors put a crimp on his social life. He adms to havg misled several people who asked him about his sexualy said that he plans to be an advote for gay rights wh the GOP, that he remas proud to be a Republin, and that his polil inty is not fed by any one issue.
”“I hope that we, as a party, would wele gay and lbian supporters. I also thk there needs to be, the gay muny, robt and bipartisan support [for] marriage rights. ”Ed Gillpie, a former RNC chairman and long-time iend of Mehlman, said that “ is signifint that a former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee is openly gay and that he is supportive of gay marriage.
” Although Gillpie himself oppos gay marriage, he poted to party stalwarts like former Vice Print Dick Cheney and strategist Mary Matal as open advot for gay rights who had not been dmmed out of the party.
SENR REPUBLIN KEN MEHLMAN OUT AS GAY
He acknowledged “big generatnal differenc perceptn when to gay marriage and gay rights as an agenda, and I thk that is te on the Republin si. “There are a lot of Republins who are gay, there are a lot of Republins who support ernment sanctn of gay marriage, a lot of Republins who support abortn on mand, a lot of Republins who support p-and-tra provisns.
” Gillpie acknowledged that the party had been hospable to gay people the past, and said that he hop Mehlman’s cisn to e out leads the party to be “more rpectful and civil our disurse” when to the gay muny. Mehlman recently moved to Chelsea, a gay mec New York Cy.
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FORMER RNC CHAIRMAN KEN MEHLMAN COM OUT: I'M GAY
Bh’s mpaign manager 2004 and a former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee, has revealed that he is gay and is workg to advance the e of same-sex nfid his sexual orientatn to fay and iends the last few months, he said an terview Wednday. Mehlman had the past nied that he was gay. “Obvly, I look back and wish I was the place I am today and been able to do that wh the gay muny.
”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Former Republin Lear Disclos That He Is Gay. After headg a Republin party that was openly hostile to the civil rights of gay and lbian Amerins, the former Republin party chairman and Bh ai Ken Mehlman has stepped out of the dog so Mehlman be the most senr Republin figure to publicly acknowledge his homosexualy, at a time when the Republin party remas eply opposed to same-sex marriage and the aboln of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars homosexuals om servg the US an terview wh Marc Ambr of the Atlantic, Mehlman said he was gog public over his sexualy bee he wants to openly support the e of legalisg marriage for gays and lbians.
Durg that perd Republin strategists rorted to vic such as state referendums banng gay marriage as wedge issu signed to motivate Republin to expla his reactn to the Republin party's gay-bag tactics, Mehlman replied: "I n't change the fact that I wasn't this place personally when I was polics, and I genuely regret that. "Mehlman said that Gee Bh was not homophobic, but that he was aware that Bh's polil strategist Karl Rove had -ordated efforts to e anti-gay legislatn and referendums to boost Republin turnout. Although mours had circulated Washgton DC, pecially when Mehlman was targeted by gay activists attemptg to out him, the news still me as a surprise to many.
KEN MEHLMAN'S GAY DILEMMA: INSI THE MD OF A CONFLICTED MAN
Ambr's terview also revealed that Mehlman has been workg behd the scen to help the Amerin Foundatn for Equal Rights – the backers of the the legal challenge to California's Proposn 8 banng gay marriage – raise funds om Republin donors. (AP)WASHINGTON -- Former Republin Party Chairman Ken Mehlman says a magaze terview that he is gay.
Bh 2004 and then RNC chairman after Bh's re-electn, told The Atlantic an terview published onle Wednday that he me to the ncln he is gay recently and wanted to talk about publicly bee he wants to bee an advote for gay marriage.