Posted on 02/14/2005 9:46:45 AM PST by metalmanx2j
MARYLAND - Scheduled to speak at an Equality Maryland rally for gay rights today, Maya Keyes, 19, daughter of former Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes, is speaking publicly for the first time about her sexuality and her soured relationship with her parents. Both Advocate.com and The Washington Post ran articles over the weekend wherein Maya Keyes discussed the situation.
Read Maya Keyes' interview with Advocate.com:
Maya Keyes ends speculation about her sexuality.
On Sunday, Marc Fisher of the Washington Post reported,
Maya Keyes loves her father and mother. She put off college and moved from the family home in Darnestown to Chicago to be with her dad on a grand adventure. Even though she disagrees with him on "almost everything" political, she worked hard for his quixotic and losing campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Now Maya Keyes -- liberal, lesbian and a little lost -- finds herself out on her own. She says her parents -- conservative commentator and perennial candidate Alan Keyes and his wife, Jocelyn -- threw her out of their house, refused to pay her college tuition and stopped speaking to her.
Maya, 19, says her parents cut her off because of who she is -- "a liberal queer." Tomorrow, she will take her private dispute with her dad into the open. She is scheduled to make her debut as a political animal, speaking at a rally in Annapolis sponsored by Equality Maryland, the state's gay rights lobby.
She plans to talk about "what it was like for me growing up as a liberal queer in a very conservative household. I've known so many other people in a position like mine, where their families really don't want much to do with them. Maybe I can help by talking about it."
The issue of Maya Keyes' sexuality came up during the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois when Capitol Fax publisher Rich Miller discovered a blog apparently populated by Maya that discussed her family and her sexuality and included pictures of her kissing another girl. The story remained underground during the Senate campaign thanks in large measure to the campaign's unwillingness to confirm or deny that the blog was indeed Maya's.
According to Fisher's piece in the Washington Post, despite the fact that Maya has been kicked out of her home, a San Francisco-based charity, the Point Foundation, has stepped in to provide the money needed for Maya to begin her studies at Brown University.
Interestingly, Maya Keyes seems to harbor little ill will towards her father. Again, from the Washington Post,
Maya still sounds more sad than angry about her situation. "I wouldn't want to do anything to hurt my father," she says. Like other gay relatives of prominent conservatives, she has struggled with how public to be about her sexuality...Maya is looking for work, planning to move in with friends in Washington or a brother in Boston. She hopes to get back in touch with her mom and dad..."It all seems kind of ridiculous," she says, "because I love him. He's my father."
© 2005 IllinoisLeader.com
It's not about ideas, it's about behaviour.
>Thats not the same!
I didn't know that at the time. I went to my mom with the "I'm a lesbian" speech. I thought at the time, I slept with a woman, I must be a lesbian. Nope, been married for 10 years now to a MAN. Wouldn't be with another woman.
I find your defending the indefensible embarrassing and shameful.
The Chaneys are wrong! They didn't have the guts as Keyes! It was sanctioning the gay life style even though they hated it.
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And for those of you who intend to flame me, I under no condition support gay marriage or civil unions or whatever you want to call it, nor do I support any element of the homosexual agenda and I don't have any gay friends. Further, I doubt anyone can review my posts on this board and question my conservatism.
Don't kid yourself. You are a shining example of the success of the homosexual campaign to desensitize the public to their natural repugnance for homosexuality.
According to the tenets of Keyes' religious tradition, his daughter is now actively promoting behaviour that is abominable by definition.
Call him petty if you like, but his principles have a much more firmly established pedigree than yours.
Do you have any evidence that the Cheneys hate the gay life style?
"Sorry son, I know we're paying for all of your siblings' schooling, but they didn't vote for John Kerry."
I guess some Freepers put their politics over their childrens' wellbeing. I'm not one of them.
By using her name and abusing his fame to speak at GAY rallies? Funny way of showing love.
"If she needs luggage, she can always borrow her dad's carpetbag"
Or Hillary's!
Parents don't owe their children a college education. They all look at it differently. Some have no choice; they simply cannot afford it. That was my parents. They love me. I love them. End of story. For those who can afford and choose to put conditions on it, or who think they child will grow more by having to work his/her way through school, they probably have good intentions whether the rest of us agree with them or not.
It may be snobbish but it's a fact. Her career prospects are MUCH brighter coming from Brown than from a Junior College.
How does paying for tuition equal funding her sexual relations with other women?
How does paying for a child's tuition equal endorsement of their homosexual lifestyle?
Nope, it's just clear that she's bisexual.
Your ignorance is what's embarrassing and shameful. Maya Keyes is obviously having a tough time right now. For her life to be examined and picked apart on this board by a bunch of holier than thou tight arses is probably the last thing she needs. And you people have way too much time on your hands.
"Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me".
Apparently for all the bible thumping that goes around on this board the quote about judging others seems to be left out. Perhaps, it isn't the Evangelical editions? The Cheneys don't seem to be entirely comfortable with their daughter's lesbianism. But they treat her with dignity and respect.
I have not nor will I defend homosexuality. Nonetheless, the idea that Alan Keyes would "disown" his daughter based on her sexuality is an anthema to not only christian teaching but sane behavoir as well.
If they can afford it, they do. If the kid wastes the opportunity and drops out or gets kicked out, that's something the kid will have to deal with.
If you have something to say, but can't do it without characterizing other's opinions, then I think you have nothing of value to add.
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