They were romantically involved for a time after Benet left her husband, actor Bill Bixby. In her book The Death of Right and Wrong, Tammy Bruce writes of her involvement with Brenda Benet, who killed herself in a home she had shared with Bruce. She returned to TRN in 2012 as a guest host following the cancellation of The Laura Ingraham Show. She described civil unions as an alternative providing equal rights.īruce hosted a national radio program on Talk Radio Network through much of the 2000s. In 2004, Bruce argued that gay Americans were not uniformly supportive of same-sex marriage, and that marriage should be restricted to heterosexual couples. In 2014, Bruce created a short video for the educational website Prager University in which she summarizes her criticisms of the contemporary feminist movement.
Instead, she advocates a "Feminism that honors all responsible choices, including becoming a wife and mother." She has said that the feminist establishment in the U.S.
Since then, Bruce has written about the dispute in her critique on what she sees as the failings of NOW, and the political left in general. Bruce claimed that the censure was due to her focus on domestic violence, as opposed to defense attorney Johnnie Cochran's "racial issues" trial argument. In May 1996, Bruce resigned as president of Los Angeles NOW. In 1996, the NOW Executive Board voted nearly unanimously to censure Bruce for what it claimed were "racially insensitive comments" during the O.J. During the early 1990s, she spearheaded the campaign to publicly criticize the sexualized violence in the novel American Psycho, and led an effort to boycott all titles by the book's publisher, Knopf, for a year. Bruce served two years on NOW's board of directors, but later criticized the organization in one of her books. During the years 1987–1990 she also participated in the Los Angeles chapter of the AIDS activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP).įor seven years, Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) (1990–1996). This group confronted anti-abortion group protesters, and helped develop a strategy to stop "Operation Rescue" from successfully blocking the entrance to abortion clinics. The group's early feminist activism began in 1987. Bruce collaborated with Los Angeles professional women to create one of the first ad hoc independent pro-choice activist groups.
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