Op-ed: A Note to Mary Cheney on Why Drag and Blackface Differ
The next time someone asks what the difference is between blackface and drag, here's what you can tell them.
February 04 2015 7:15 AM
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The latest news about Mary Cheney, the out, married lesbian daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, and younger sister of US Senate candidate Liz Cheney. Currently a Vice President for Consumer Advocacy at AOL, Mary Cheney has stirred controversy over her support of and work with the Republican party and her father's campaigns. Mary Cheney married Heather Poe in 2012 in Washington, D.C. and the couple has two children together. Her father Dick Cheney has since come out publicly in support of his lesbian daughter.
The next time someone asks what the difference is between blackface and drag, here's what you can tell them.
It's not out of the question, says leading equality foe Maggie Gallagher, who also used a recent radio appearance to assert once again that same-sex marriage is 'going to hurt a lot of children.'
Mary Cheney isn't keeping quiet about her disappointment with her sister's opposition to marriage equality.
In Liz Cheney's quest for the Senate, Mary Cheney's family further becomes a political football.
Liz Cheney and her gay sister, Mary Cheney, take their marriage equality arguments public.
On Fox News Sunday, the former vice president's daughter, running for U.S. Senate from Wyoming, responded to perceptions that she's insufficiently opposed to marriage rights for same-sex couples.
Liz Cheney said this week that she doesn't support same-sex marriage, and now the National Organization for Marriage wants her to prove it.
The couple were married 20 years after their first date.
Cino filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to create the committee Friday.
Multiple New Hampshire news outlets have confirmed that Ayotte is opposed to marriage equality.
The candidate has been a strong supporter of the state's ban on adoption by gay people.
Sarah Lynne Cheney was born at Sibley Hospital in Washington.
The staunch Republican and her partner, Heather Poe, expect the baby in mid to late November.
Mary Cheney is against California's Proposition 8.
Samuel David Cheney is the sixth grandchild for Lynne and Vice President Cheney.
The decision to become pregnant and raise a child with her female partner was not political, Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, said Wednesday.
A gay rights group said the vice president faces ''a lifetime of sleepless nights."
Mary Cheney (pictured), the gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne, is pregnant, according to a published report.
She took a public stand against President Bush and his antigay policies in her new book, Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life.
The lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney talks about her new book and her relationship with her father.