Activists at both extrem of the gay rights qutn are publicly sistg they know more about Ja Reno's sexual orientatn than Ja Reno do.
Contents:
- WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
- IS JA RENO GAY
- THEATER REVIEW; GAY2K, JA RENO'S HAIR AND OVERZEALO PARENTS
- FROM RENO PRI TO THE GAY ROO: LOLS SAY NEVADA'S LGBTQ+ MOVEMENT HAS E A LONG WAY
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
This morng, Josh Gerste of Poli reported that two of the top ndidat for the SCOTUS seat, Stanford Law School’s Pamela Karlan and Kathleen Sullivan, are gay. You’d thk this would have cleared the air for the first ee and unfettered discsn of an openly gay jtice.
On hearg the news about Karlan, Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council said he doubts Print Obama will nomate a gay person to the Supreme Court, bee of the possibily of a polil battle: “That would enter a whole new element of the bate that I don’t thk he’s ready for, ” Perks said. Thk of all the sgle, childls women posns of promence who have been “mored to be gay.
The very much married Hillary Clton is practilly the only one who n proudly, sually say that she march Gay Pri paras, although mors that she was a lbian have dogged her, too, for s. ” Although she has taken pas to wele nservativ onto mp, Kagan is targeted by the right for beg “gay iendly” bee she took sis a Supreme Court se which several law schools objected to the ary’s policy on gay servicemen and servicewomen.
IS JA RENO GAY
Ja Napolano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Secury and another short-lister, has many tim answered qutns om Rh Limbgh and reporters about whether she is gay. That we n’t speak openly about whether some of the women who have earned nsiratn for the Supreme Court are gay or not, and whether even matters, is, of urse, madng.
Maybe Tony Perks is right, and Obama is “not ready” to nomate a gay person. 8, 2005 Activists at both extrem of the gay rights qutn are publicly sistg they know more about Ja Reno's sexual orientatn than Ja Reno do. "I am not a lbian, " Reno said Monday, after the strint gay rights group Queer Natn lled a news nference to assert she "more likely than not" is homosexual.
The most famo nontatn me durg the 1988 general electn mpaign agast Thompson, who said mors the cumbent was a closet homosexual is what prompted him to enter the race the first place. At a mpaign event he hand Reno a letter and told her she had four days to check one of the optns: "I, Ja Reno, am a (box) homosexual (box) bisexual (box) heterosexual.
THEATER REVIEW; GAY2K, JA RENO'S HAIR AND OVERZEALO PARENTS
In 1990, for stance, Thompson claimed that a Metro-Da police officer told him of seeg Reno and another woman dnk and engaged a homosexual act at Sundays on the Bay Key Bisyne. As member of the ntroversial Queer Natn, Cantrell believ that homosexual public figur who rema the closet impe the gay rights movement. "The reason I don't like labels, the reason I don't apply labels to myself is there are so many gradatns, so many different cultur _ om gays to lbians to bisexuals _ until some of were jokg that the next group to e out is celibat by choice or chance, " said NOW's Ireland.
Gordon Jam Klgenschmt, a urt-martialed ary chapla who now ns an anti-gay webse, circulated a prs release cg anonymo stunt reviews on Epns as proof that Kagan is gay. Peter LaBarbera at Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy blasted out a prs release llg on Kagan to answer the qutn: “Are (or were) you a practicg homosexual? ” He wrote, “ an era of ubiquo pro-gay msag and pop culture celebratn of homosexualy, ’s ridiculo that Amerins should be left gusg as to whether a Supreme Court nomee has a special, personal tert homosexualy.
FROM RENO PRI TO THE GAY ROO: LOLS SAY NEVADA'S LGBTQ+ MOVEMENT HAS E A LONG WAY
Given the important homosexual-related issu g before the Supreme Court, Kagan should say so if she has a personal tert lbianism.
But wasn’t jt homophobic right-wgers llg on Kagan to addrs her sexual orientatn directly. Sullivan, who’s openly gay, wrote, “Is Obama actually gog to e a Supreme Court nomee to advance the e of the closet (as well as kill any urt imposn of marriage equaly)? Bis, if Obama really wanted to make a statement and nomate a gay or lbian Supreme Court jtice, wouldn’t he have done so openly?
Buried the many bat over whether ’s even appropriate to nsir someone’s sexual orientatn as part of the nfirmatn procs is the unspoken acknowledgement that Kagan mt, after all, be gay. Overall, the se for her gayns seems to rt on a pretty th argument that go somethg like this:.