Gay Whe Hoe staffer Brendan Cohen has scribed how seeg then-vice print Joe Bin talk about same-sex marriage helped him.
Contents:
- JOE BIN APPOTS OUT GAY MAN TO LEAD THE WHE HOE’S PERSONNEL OFFICE
- GAY STAFFERS REFLECT ON YEARS WORKG THE BH WHE HOE
- JOE BIN GAVE A YOUNG GAY HIGH SCHOOLER THE URAGE TO E OUT. NOW, HE’S A CCIAL PART OF HIS WHE HOE TEAM
- TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
- THE WHE HOE FIRED MELANIA TMP'S GAY STAFFER AFTER HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE A 'LIVELY GRDR ACUNT:' BOOK
- JOE BIN APPOTS GAY STAFFER TO HIGH PROFILE WHE HOE ROLE
JOE BIN APPOTS OUT GAY MAN TO LEAD THE WHE HOE’S PERSONNEL OFFICE
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GAY STAFFERS REFLECT ON YEARS WORKG THE BH WHE HOE
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JOE BIN GAVE A YOUNG GAY HIGH SCHOOLER THE URAGE TO E OUT. NOW, HE’S A CCIAL PART OF HIS WHE HOE TEAM
Print-elect Joe Bin has named the first out member of his Whe Hoe staff -- Carlos Elizondo, a gay man who will be social secretary. Won't be the first gay man to be Whe Hoe social secretary -- that distctn went to Jeremy Bernard, who held that post durg part of Obama's princy, the first man and the first out gay person to do is expected to announce more LGBTQ+ staffers.
Stuart Delery, a gay attorney who worked on Edie Wdsor's marriage equaly se, will be the next Whe Hoe unsel, the first out member of the LGBTQ+ muny to hold that posn, Print Joe Bin announced will step to the post next month, when Dana Rem parts. Print Joe Bin is appotg an out gay man to n his Whe Hoe’s personnel office.
He worked to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the ary’s ban on out gay and bisexual people. But he won’t be workg alone: The former vice print has already tapped LGBTQ appote for several key rol and gay rights advot are hopeful that more will be named, cludg the first out Cabet member nfirmed by the Senate.
TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
Tobar, a lbian, also worked as a munitns director for the Bin November, Carlos Elizondo, who is gay and was Bin’s social secretary when Bin was vice print, was named Whe Hoe social secretary. ”In Febary, Tmp appoted a gay man, Richard Grenell, as actg director of natnal telligence, makg him the first out member of a printial Cabet. Gtam Raghavan, a gay Indian-Amerin, will be the hight-rankg out member of the Whe Hoe staff when he advanc to director of the Office of Printial Personnel.
Burger has penned a fascatg article for Poli highlightg several gay men who worked Gee W. Each provis a personal piece to the larger puzzle — what was life like for them workg an admistratn publicly opposed to gay rights? Steven Leve, a former Whe Hoe advance ai, tells Burger that he knew of at least 70 gay Bh Whe Hoe ’s the Big Ia?
THE WHE HOE FIRED MELANIA TMP'S GAY STAFFER AFTER HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE A 'LIVELY GRDR ACUNT:' BOOK
Bh started out as perhaps the most gay-iendly Republin print ever… a few months before nailg down his party’s nomatn 2000, met At wh a dozen gay Republin lears, proclaimg afterward, “I am a better person for the meetg.
JOE BIN APPOTS GAY STAFFER TO HIGH PROFILE WHE HOE ROLE
”Soon after his guratn, early 2001, Bh braved the ire of the relig right by namg [Stt] Evertz, one of the so-lled At 12, as Whe Hoe AIDS Burger tails the saga, Bh’s stat as an anti-gay Bogeyman of a bygone era is qutned. Sure, he opposed gay marriage favor of s “tradnal” alternative, but the print didn’t mpaign on an anti-gay platform until 2004, when his re-electn mpaign (and his Ohan relig right votg re) need an extra jolt. Burger impli that Bh’s famo place the annals of anti-gay history is more to blame on the polil (and Karl Rove) than the personal.
Whether that’s fair, I’ll leave up to the off very well the piece; he and Dick Cheney are emed to have always been grac to openly gay staffers and their partners.
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