Who Is HuffPost Chief Lydia Polgreen's Wife Candace Fe? His Gay Movement

Contents:

• LYDIA POLGREEN MARRIED, HBAND, GAY, B, SALARY
• HUFFPOST CHIEF LYDIA POLGREEN'S GAY LOVE! MARRIED TAG IN B, KEEPG INTACT
• AT AXIS OF EPISPAL SPL, AN ANTI-GAY NIGERIAN
• LYDIA POLGREEN, HUFFPOST’S GAY LOVE! KEEPG INTACT WH THE MARRIED TAG IN MY B
• THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY

LYDIA POLGREEN MARRIED, HBAND, GAY, B, SALARY

"Polgreen lik to pot to her own backstory as a classic Amerin tale: "My mother is an Ain immigrant, my father is a disabled veteran, and my grandparents on my father's si were sort of WASPy Goldwater Republins who had a Catholic son, a gay son, and a son who married an Ain.

"I wrote an impassned edorial about acceptg gay people and was extremely exriated for by my homophobic classmat, " she says. Polgreen was only dimly aware of her sexual orientatn at the time, but her father's youngt brother was gay and a long-term relatnship.

HUFFPOST CHIEF LYDIA POLGREEN'S GAY LOVE! MARRIED TAG IN B, KEEPG INTACT

"And my parents had this role mol, far om the stereotype of the sperate, lonely homosexual, of a well-adjted uple who'd had a lovg, long-standg relatnship. "I always worried about her as a gay woman Wt Ai, " Callimachi says. "Soon after she left, I did a story about this town of Thi Senegal where people were exhumg the bodi of spected gay men and draggg the rps through town.

To this day I don't know how Lydia explaed who she and Candy were to the staff this credibly homophobic space. "We were livg there at a time when gay people were beg murred Uganda and plac like that, and there were ont pag of newspapers outg people, so that was an eye-openg experience, " Polgreen says.

AT AXIS OF EPISPAL SPL, AN ANTI-GAY NIGERIAN

"My last postg for The New York Tim was South Ai, where gay marriage is law but there are huge problems around homophobia and vlence, particularly agast queer Ain women, so was a tremendo relief to e back to the U. She is also a role mol for the Ain-Amerin and gay muni. 'Openly Gay Lydia's Married Life Wh Betiful WifeThe former journalist of The New York Tim, Lydia is openly gay.

Durg the ial phase of their married life, they lived a low-key life Wt Ai bee of var homicis and vlence towards the people of the gay muny.

Even after gettg dged by nservative nsumers and gay rights activists, Bud Light pledged to keep supportg queer fights disguise a bigger tth: Corporatns, far om dictatg cultural mor om some palist Mount Olymp, reflect and -opt the social trends around 2018, as the Black Liv Matter movement gathered force, Nike created a ntroversial ad mpaign wh Col Kaepernick, the Black football player who famoly knelt durg the natnal anthem to prott police racism and btaly toward Black civilians.

LYDIA POLGREEN, HUFFPOST’S GAY LOVE! KEEPG INTACT WH THE MARRIED TAG IN MY B

It meant that if a right-wg mob me for queer programmg on the platform, the pany uld pot to that cisn as fends hostg podsts that my lleagu ma, stuff like “The Two Prc, ” a fantasy show for kids about two prc who fall love, and “Gay Pri & Prejudice, ” a morn take on the Jane Aten classic.

THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY

Amerin journalist and executive edor Lydia Polgreen's married life has wnsed some fiery tim om stag the relatnship an unacceptable culture to jot terviewg anti-gay Sudane warlord alongsi her artistic partner. The Gee Polk Award wner was forced to nceal her relatnship wh her wife, Candace Fe while livg homophobic Wt Ai om 2005 to two met at llege, and have been matag a strong bond ever sce.