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lot of his supporters,
Bush continued.
“There’s some
problems with
this claim. If you
say the heart and
soul of America
is found in
Hollywood, I’m
afraid you are
not the candidate
of conservative
values. If you
voted against the
bipartisan
Defense of
Marriage Act,
which President
Clinton signed,
you are not, the
Log Cabin Executive
Director Patrick
Guerriero: 'For too
long we have watched
while the radical right
hijacked our party/
candidate of conservative values.”
When Bush finished speaking, he was
joined on stage by his wife, daughters and
parents, and by Vice President Dick
Cheney and his wife, their daughter Liz,
Liz’s husband and their four children.
Conspicuously missing, as she had been
the night before when Cheney spoke, was
the Cheneys’ other daughter, openly les
bian Mary Cheney.
“I make of it that Mary is shoved back
in the closet as viciously and strongly as
the Cheney family could and the GOP
could,” said |ohn Aravosis, founder of
DearMary.com.
“I would be shocked if the Bush-
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Cheney campaign told Mary that she and
Heather were absolutely a-okay on stage.
Mary’s life partner that wears a gold wed
ding band along with Mary? There’s no
way.”
Mary did appear on stage with her par
ents during the 2000 GOP convention in
Philadelphia.
ACT-UP security breach
There were several other gay stories
during the convention. On the morning of
Sept. I, during the Republican Youth
Convention, II members of ACT-UP
slipped through layers upon layers of
extreme security to stage a protest on the
convention floor.
They disrupted a speech by White
House Chief of Staff Andrew Card by
standing on chairs, chanting, and taking
off their shirts to reveal anti-Bush slogans.
The Republican youth responded with
chants of “Four more years.”
The protesters were aggressively
hauled away by police, charged with
assault and/or inciting to riot, and jailed.
In a second gay protest, several mem
bers of a group called Gays Against Bush
taunted members of the Missouri delega
tion as they walked into a Manhattan
restaurant for dinner.
Missouri voters recently amended their
constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
“The Missouri delegation can’t come to
New York and act like no one is aware of
what’s happening in their state,” said.
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