Alan Keyes' Daughter Comes
Out
CBS News
Feb. 13, 2005
(CBS) The 19-year-old daughter of Alan Keyes has a Valentine
for the anti-gay rights conservative pundit and frequent
Republican candidate.
Maya Marcel-Keyes will be making her first public appearance
as a gay activist at a Valentine Day's rally in front of the
Maryland State House, says Dan Furmansky, the leader of Equality
Maryland, a gay rights group.
Last summer her father, a conservative pundit and frequent
Republican candidate, caused a stir during the Republican
convention by labeling Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian
daughter a sinner and calling homosexuality "selfish
hedonism."
"It was kind of strange that he said it like a hypothetical,"
she told the Washington Post. "It was really kind of
unpleasant."
Marcel-Keyes told the Post her parents have thrown her out of
the house, stopped speaking to her and refuse to pay for college
because she is gay. She said she loves her parents.
Keyes' Web site says he is against "the homosexual rights
agenda, including same-sex marriage."
Marcel-Keyes grew up in Darnestown, Md., attended a
conservative Catholic school for girls in McLean, Va., spent a
year in the south of India advocating tribal rights, and plans to
attend Brown University this fall, according to an Equality
Maryland press release.
Furmansky told CBSNews.com that Marcel-Keyes would not be
speaking to the media ahead of Monday's rally, and probably not
afterward, either.
Bloggers have identified her Web site as
http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Xmisled0youthX. The author of
the blog says it is public and she has nothing to hide.
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