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Yes, she’s a lesbian. According to her own blog<\/a> and that of her girlfriend<\/a>. They both posted this picture on the internet as I understand it. I saw it at her girlfriend’s site who also has a gay.com profile<\/a> (with more Maya pics).<\/p>\n There’s been much handwringing in the leftie blogosphere<\/a> about this picture, and others from the series, and the idea of publicizing Maya’s sexuality at all. She is, after all, a 19 year old girl who can’t be blamed for being the daughter of a near-psychotically conservative Republican U.S. Senatorial candidate from I too though, thought long and hard before blogging at all on this, and I believe it was finally this passage from Maya’s rather moving blog that moved me to go ahead and jump in here:<\/p>\n And even if I am a charitable dyke I am still a dyke who KISSES GIRLS and especially with the gay marriage thing going on now that’s at the front of their minds. So I think I might get back to find out they still don’t like me and I won’t have a college to go to.<\/p><\/div>\n Basically, this young girl describes having the gift of an education being held hostage from her by her parents because she is gay. I guess that’s the “Compassionate Conservativism” we’ve heard so much about. Or would that be “Family Values”? (See chillinois’ excellent chronical<\/a> of many of today’s events for more of those moving passages and other commentary from the ‘sphere. The articles at Maya’s girlfriend’s blog — who’s mother seems to be similarly intolerant\/cruel are also an object lesson in shame.)<\/p>\n That Maya has been pointing to her own blog for quite a while via her posts on a Keyes Campaign Message Group strikes me — for all of my armchair psychiatry — as a cry for help. Well, if America regains its senses and John Kerry is elected, perhaps as he likes to say “help is on the way”.<\/p>\n One may note the suprising number of hard-right Conservatives with homosexuals in their immediate family (prominently Cheney’s daughter, Gingrich’s sister, now Keyes’ daughter) and wonder how it is they manage to justify the hatred — yes, hatred — that they perpetuate on a daily basis. Through their words, their deeds, and their passive (and not so passive) tolerance for those that who oppress, deny, belittle, hurt, harm, hate and even advocate the murder<\/a> of other humans solely on the basis of their sexual identities. All in the name of a few more votes.<\/p>\nMaryland<\/strike> Illinois who recently called<\/a> Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter a “selfish hedonist” because she was gay. Also, she was not outted by anyone other than herself on her own blog. Her Yahoo ID<\/a> is “dangerousanjul”. Indeed.<\/p>\nmy parents and I were seriously not getting along and so we needed some time off from each other; the idea was that after a year of being a wonderful good helping-the-poor type person they would once again like me and therefore be willing to pay for my college I’m not so sure that part of it will work; despite the fact that I’m all about working for global justice THEY don’t care about that, THEY only care that I am an evil dyke.<\/p>\n