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By Laura Kiritsy | Wednesday Dec 6, 2006
Publication of an editorial in Bay Windows referencing a 1994 letter Mitt Romney wrote during his 1994 U.S. Senate bid to unseat Ted Kennedy unleashed a frenzied effort by media researchers and activists to find the letter. In the letter, which was written to the Massachusetts Log Cabin Club, Romney pledged to provide more effective leadership on gay equality than his opponent, U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Mitt’s secret gay history II
By Laura Kiritsy | Wednesday Dec 6, 2006
Given his recent obsession with fighting marriage equality, slashing funds for every LGBT program in the state budget and generally characterizing gay people as aliens ("Some of them are even having children born to them," he fretted incredulously last year to a group of South Carolina Republicans), it’s kind of funny that back when Mitt Romney was looking to unseat Ted Kennedy from the U.S. Senate he just loooooved the gays. Or at least he pretended to, since he certainly hasn’t shown this side of his personality since he collected that endorsement donation from the Log Cabin Republicans back in his 2002 gubernatorial campaign. Here are a few excerpts from Romney’s Aug. 25, 1994 interview with Bay Windows.
Romney is a big fat liar
By Laura Kiritsy | Wednesday Dec 6, 2006
The fact that there’s intense interest in a letter Mitt Romney wrote to the Massachusetts Log Cabin Club 12 years ago in which he pledged to be a more ardent advocate for gay rights than U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy isn’t a surprise. Romney is an all-but-declared candidate for president who’s staked his candidacy on social conservatism. Any hint of hypocrisy on Romney’s part with regard to LGBT issues is of great use for political reporters, GOP primary opponents and LGBT activists alike. What is surprising, though, is the depth of Romney’s hypocrisy.
Mitt Romney: Garden variety bigot or political opportunist?
By Susan Ryan-Vollmar | Tuesday Nov 21, 2006
Editor Susan Ryan Vollmar’s editorial on the political motivations behind Romney’s highly-touted November 2006 rally in support of an anti-gay constitutional amendment in Massachusetts.
Mitt Romney’s secret gay history!
By Ethan Jacobs | Thursday Mar 3, 2005
Governor Romney has been touring the country in the past few weeks, courting anti-gay right-wingers in South Carolina, Missouri, and Utah with speeches designed to show that he is firmly in their camp. Yet a look at Romney’s record shows that his Rick Santorum drag act is a relatively new phenomenon.
Don’t dismiss Romney, gay Republicans say
By Bay Windows Staff | Thursday Oct 24, 2002
An interview with Romney conducted just after the Massachusetts Log Cabin Republicans endorsed his gubernatorial candidacy.
Gay GOP touts Romney as good for the community
By Bay Windows Staff | Thursday Mar 28, 2002
Mitt Romney rode his wild success organizing this year’s Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, all the way back to Massachusetts and right onto center stage as the Republican candidate for governor. But the Olympic gold dust has begun to settle -- Democrats have already taken aim at his inconsistent stance on abortion and criticized his positions on a host of other issues, from fixing the state’s budget crisis to managing the Big Dig. And now that gay-friendly Governor Jane Swift has bowed out of the running, gay voters may also be wondering: Is Mitt good for gays?
19 questions for Mitt Romney
By Bay Windows Staff | Tuesday Jan 1, 2002
A Bay Windows questionnaire Romney completed during his 2002 gubernatorial campaign.
Lakian and Romney pitch for support of Massachusetts gay GOP organization
By Bay Windows Staff | Thursday Sep 15, 1994
The event was so low-keyed, you’d never know that history was being made, but the appearance of John Lakian and Mitt Romney at the Sept. 7 meeting of the Massachusetts Log Cabin Club marked the first U.S. Senate primary campaign ever with two Republicans contenders openly courting the votes of gays.
Romney: I’ll be better than Ted for gay rights
By Bay Windows Staff | Thursday Aug 25, 1994
Mitt Romney’s campaign for the U.S. Senate hit a snag last month when four members of his Mormon congregation alleged in a Boston Globe article that Romney referred to lesbians and gay men as "perverse" in a November, 1993 speech.
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