John Schlafly, son of longtime nservative Republin firebrand Phyllis Schlafly, said Friday he is gay, a disclosure his mother said was a sneak attack by her polil enemi.
Contents:
- MRS. AMERI: THE TTH ABOUT JOHN, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON
- SON OF CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REVEALS HE’S GAY
- ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY WAS CLOSE TO HER HOMOSEXUAL SON
- HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
- FROM THE ARCHIV: AT 2004 NVENTN, SCHLAFLY MAK HER POT ON GAY MARRIAGE — UNABASHEDLY
- SON OF NSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY SAYS HE IS GAY
- PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S SON IS GAY
- PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S LEGACY OF ANTI-GAY ACTIVISM
MRS. AMERI: THE TTH ABOUT JOHN, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S GAY SON
Did anti-gay activist and Equal Rights Amendment opposer Phyllis Schlafly have a gay son? Pl, how did they get along wh opposg views? * phyllis schlafly son gay *
Ameri has retroduced John Schlafly (Ben Rosenfield), the gay son of Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett), the right-wg activist who waged war agast the Equal Rights Amendment. While John is gay, he did not acknowledge publicly until September 1992, when the gay New York Cy magaze Queer World, also known as QW, outed him shortly after the Republin Natnal Conventn, which was phg a "fay valu", a supporter of the homophobic ndidate Pat Buchanan, nfirmed his inty shortly afterward. " "There's nothg about my posn on gay rights that should be offensive to a gay unls he's seekg some kd of preferential stat, " she the L.
SON OF CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REVEALS HE’S GAY
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(Related: The Sad Last Days of Homo-Hate Queen Phyllis Schlafly)"The gays have their argument about evabily, " Schlafly said of the fight for marriage equaly. TIMES STAFF WRITER A son of nservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has publicly revealed that he is homosexual, while at the same time fendg his mother’s polil views and the Republin Party’s “fay valu” mpaign theme.
ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY WAS CLOSE TO HER HOMOSEXUAL SON
In September 1992, John Schlafly, the son of nservative csar Phyllis Schlafly, nfirmed he was gay to the San Francis Examer. On the most recent episo of Hulu's Mrs. Ameri, though, ’s still only 1974. * phyllis schlafly son gay *
”He add that he “didn’t agree wh everythg” he heard at the GOP nventn but sisted that “efforts to nvey the (Republin) Conventn and the platform and speakers as bigots and gay bashers is pletely accurate. ”Schlafly was “outed, ” or revealed to be gay, by QW, a magaze published New York, two weeks ago.
” She cled to say when she learned her son is gay and add that homosexualy “is not a big subject around (the Schlafly fay). ”As for her stand on gay rights, Phyllis Schlafly said: “There’s nothg about my posn on gay rights that should be offensive to a gay unls he’s seekg some kd of preferential stat.
HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
The son of nservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, an arnt opponent of gay rights, nfirmed he is a homosexual.... * phyllis schlafly son gay *
”While John Schlafly said he did not thk was right for someone to be fired based on sexual orientatn, he said he did “not support the so-lled gay-rights agenda” and was not sure what he thought of the ary’s ban on his remarks to the Examer, he disagreed wh one mon ntentn of the relig right, that homosexualy is a choice. Anti-Gay Activist Phyllis Schlafly Was Close to Her Homosexual SonDid anti-gay activist and Equal Rights Amendment opposer Phyllis Schlafly have a gay son? Throughout her many years polics, Phyllis Schlafly advoted agast the Equal Rights Amendment, abortn, sex tn public schools, same-sex marriage, and gay civil rights.
Not only did she build a very succsful reer on the argument that a woman’s place is the home, her stance on gay rights was plited by the fact that her own son was a latt episos of Mrs. Ameri explore Phyllis’ relatnship wh her son and how she mataed her opposn to gay rights even wh him by her si. Prr to this terview, John was outed by a New York-based weekly journal lled QW, an fensible and misguid attempt to unmask the hypocrisy of Phyllis’ arguments agast gay rights.
FROM THE ARCHIV: AT 2004 NVENTN, SCHLAFLY MAK HER POT ON GAY MARRIAGE — UNABASHEDLY
But even if was a lculated move, did ltle to soften her stance agast gay rights, or her relatnship wh her son. If anythg, John doubled down on supportg his mother’s msage of "fay valu, " and took shots at lears of the gay agenda llg them “a band of screechy gay activists. ”Article ntu below advertisementSource: gettyHe fend his mother an terview wh the Washgton Post, sayg, “Fay valu people, of which my mother is a part, are not out to bash gay people, ” addg that they were beg unfairly stigated by the media and the opposn party.
SON OF NSERVATIVE ACTIVIST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY SAYS HE IS GAY
It remas unclear about when exactly Phyllis found out that her son was gay sce both of them refed to ment on the matter. In this episo, Phyllis gradually realiz that her elst son, John, is gay and nonts him about his sexualy an direct but unmistakable way, tellg him how she was able to qu smokg bee “the md is stronger than the body. ”While the particulars of the nversatn — and the circumstanc that spired — have almost certaly been imaged by the wrers, is te that John Schlafly is gay.
He was outed by Queer World, a New York gay magaze, jt after the Republin Natnal Conventn 1992 — where cultural nservativ like Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson tmpeted the importance of “fay valu” and nounced Bill Clon’s support for gay rights.
”In a 1993 terview, Schlafly said she’d known for a long time that her child was gay, but they did not discs until the Queer World article me out. John Schlafly, the son of Republin fay valu csar Phyllis Schlafly, acknowledged yterday that he is a homosexual.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S SON IS GAY
But he me out swgg at gay lears rather than at the GOP, which has been acced of vilifyg homosexuals.
"I thk there has been a hysteril overreactn the gay muny" to the Republin platform, said John Schlafly, a 41-year-old attorney who liv and works wh his mother Alton, Ill. "We have a band of screechy gay activists and Washgton-based prsure groups who get all the attentn. The tth is: Fay valu people, of which my mother is a part, are not out to bash gay people.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S LEGACY OF ANTI-GAY ACTIVISM
" He embrac his mother's views, cludg her opposn to same-sex marriag and to extendg civil rights protectn to gays and lbians, which he said would be a burn to employers. The statements e at a time when the printial ndidat are exprsg sharply different views on gay rights and the subject of homosexuals has emerged as a wedge issue the mpaign.
" Gay lears say that the Bh team has been spegoatg gays and lbians to distract voters om the moribund enomy.
"I uldn't disagree wh John Schlafly more, " said Urvashi Vaid, print of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.