Maya Jeane Marcel-Keyes (born May 23, 1985) is an American social and political activist and daughter of Alan Keyes, a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Marcel-Keyes has been involved with the anarchist and gay rights movements, despite her staunch conservative upbringing. She also identifies herself as adamantly pro-life, describing this stance as integral to her pacifist beliefs.
Marcel-Keyes was born in New Jersey and ...
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Maya Jeane Marcel-Keyes (born May 23, 1985) is an American social and political activist and daughter of Alan Keyes, a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Marcel-Keyes has been involved with the anarchist and gay rights movements, despite her staunch conservative upbringing. She also identifies herself as adamantly pro-life, describing this stance as integral to her pacifist beliefs.
Marcel-Keyes was born in New Jersey and raised in suburban Maryland by Keyes and wife Jocelyn Marcel-Keyes. Marcel-Keyes is the second of three children. She was raised in the Roman Catholic Church.
Maya Marcel-Keyes often sought friends that were outside the family's conservative atmosphere, befriending those that began to introduce her to new ideas. During her teenage years, Marcel-Keyes began to evaluate her sexual orientation. She eventually came out as a lesbian. The death of a close friend, a young man named Shymmer, presaged Marcel-Keyes' entry into the public eye. Shymmer...
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