Notable Lesbians
This week’s Notable Lesbian is:
Maya J. Marcel-Keyes
May 23, 1985 -
Maya Keyes (born May 23, 1985), is an 
American political activist and daughter of United States Ambassador Alan Keyes, former Republican presidential, senatorial candidate, and adviser to Ronald Reagan. After the 2004 campaign, Marcel-Keyes became a consultant for Keyes’ Illinois office. However, on January 20, 2005, she participated in a march protesting the second inauguration of President George W. Bush. Keyes relieved his daughter from her duties and requested that she move out of an apartment funded by Keyes’ political organizations in Chicago. Marcel-Keyes wrote in her online journal that her parents had given her two weeks to move out of the apartment, and had effectively left her “jobless and … homeless.” She also discussed this series of events in an interview with The Advocate.
Interesting tid bit:
The death of a close friend of Marcel-Keyes, a young man named Shymmer, presaged her entry into the public eye. Shymmer had been kicked out of his house at age sixteen after revealing his sexual orientation to his parents, thereby forcing him to survive on the streets. After over three years living without a home, and facing many of the problems LGBT youth face while homeless — rape, beatings, prostitution — Shymmer died of starvation brought about by a severe case of anorexia nervosa after a Washington, D.C. hospital refused to provide him an IV drip. Marcel-Keyes spoke about Shymmer at an Equality Maryland rally on Valentine’s Day, 2005.
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Maya Marcel Keyes, Alan Keyes, George W. Bush, Notable Lesbians
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