'Mad Men': Is Bob Benson Gay? Probably Not - TheWrap

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• BOB GREEN, ANA BRYANT’S EX-HBAND DIED FULL OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND BLAMG THE GAYS TILL THE BTER END
• BOB GREEN, ANTI-GAY BIGOT, DI AS RENTFUL AS HE LIVED
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• BOB GAY | TEAM | HGGC
• ‘MAD MEN’: IS BOB BENSON GAY? PROBABLY NOT

BOB GREEN, ANA BRYANT’S EX-HBAND DIED FULL OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND BLAMG THE GAYS TILL THE BTER END

Bob Green, was a one time rad DJ who married Miss Oklahoma and orange juice spokman Ana Bryant and managed her reer and then followed her to anti-gay activism, which ultimately stroyed their reers — and marriage 1980.

BOB GREEN, ANTI-GAY BIGOT, DI AS RENTFUL AS HE LIVED

For more than 30 years Green lived alone full of hate and rentment blamg gays for all of his problems. Green and Bryant led a succsful effort to repeal Miami-Da County’s newly passed gay rights ordance, Bryant out ont and the tall, handsome Green behd the scen, as he had been when he managed her sgg reer……. Flh wh victory Miami-Da, the uple found Ana Bryant Mistri, which offered “programmg” and halfway ho for gays and a lecture seri lled “Dign for Succsful Livg, ” aimed at battlg divorce..

Green told the Miami Herald that he blamed gay people for the turmoil his life bee “their stated goal was to put [Bryant] out of bs and stroy her reer. ” And that the Bryants’ are the “origator” of the lie that children would be molted or nverted by gay perverts.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

“As a mother, ” Ana shamelsly explaed, “I know that homosexuals nnot blogilly reproduce children; therefore, they mt rec our children. Bryant and Greene fanned the flam of anti-gay bigotry wh speakg tours that ma her a natnal spokperson agast “homosexual rights. ” She was the star attractn at ralli that led to the repeal of gay rights numero ci, and she me to California to support the Briggs Iniative 1978, which failed, but would have banned homosexuals or anyone advotg the “gay liftyle” om teachg public schools.

“I don’t hate the homosexuals, ” she wrote a fundraisg letter. ” and promised she would “seek help and change for homosexuals, whose sick and sad valu belie the word ‘gay’ which they pathetilly e to ver their unhappy liv. Behd the scen, however, he played an important role creatg the "culture war" that still plagu this Bryant, the anti-gay csar, was his wife.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Her mercials hawkg orange juice ma her a faiar face Amerin livg rooms, somethg she ed to her advantage 1977 when she and Bob lnched their anti-gay mpaign. The uple trotted out all the ual anti-gay stereotyp, right down to namg their anizatn Save Our mpaign rulted numero pyts workg to repeal anti-discrimatn laws around the untry -- but only those anti-discrimatn laws that protected the LGBT muny. Jerry Falwell shed to Miami to support her but stole the lucrative anti-gay issue om unr her by formg his Moral addn to phg the ual stereotyp, Bryant even claimed that her "mistry" was pable of "curg" gay people through prayer.

Save Our Children origated most of the talkg pots still ed by the relig right regard to gay people. Some rried prott signs mandg that gay people be executed.

Others serly told me that the prence of homosexuals ed droughts. I jokgly asked if were possible to ntrol floodg by bg homosexuals, and one person serly told me would had a ncert/rally schled South Bend on the Oct. He blamed gays, sayg, "Blame gay people?

BOB GAY | TEAM | HGGC

He enuraged the csa that lost her the spokwoman reer, and they uldn't out-pete Falwell the anti-gay The Miami Herald Steve Roths wrote, "For more than 30 years, Mr. He nvced himself that was all the flt of "the gays" and his ex-wife.

Is the olst son of famo anti-gay csars Ana Bryant and Bob Green, who battled the Da County, Fla., ordance banng discrimatn agast gay people and won 1977.

He wants his father to be remembered for more than the fiercely anti-gay stance that me to fe his fay, but Green Jr. He also has a number of gay iends, a fact he discs unremarkably. : He blamed gay and lbian people for the disappotments that followed the aftermath of that for wreckg my mom's reer, which of urse my dad at the time had been very much a part of as her manager as well as her hband.

‘MAD MEN’: IS BOB BENSON GAY? PROBABLY NOT

I thk he blamed gay and lbian people some parts for my parent's divorce and the difficulty that my dad had fdg other work. WCT: So, you don't share your parents views on gay rights? : I thk of the four of kids of Bob Green and Ana Bryant, I am probably the most sympathetic towards gay and lbian rights and probably a lot of ways more socially, polilly, religly left of certaly where my parents were at that time.

Was your sense that he followg your mom's lead on gay issu?