Tipper Gore

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Tipper Gore (2009)

Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore (born August 19, 1948 in Orlando , Florida as Mary Elizabeth Aicheson ) is the former wife of Al Gore , the former Vice President of the United States .

Life and family

Tipper Gore's parents divorced when she was four years old. From then on she grew up with her mother and grandmother. She first studied psychology at Boston University , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1970 , and later at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University , where she graduated with a master's in 1975 .

She met her future husband, Al Gore, at a ball at St. Albans School in Washington, DC . The two have four children: Karenna (1973), Kristin (1977), Sarah (1979) and Albert III. (1982). They also have three grandchildren: Wyatt (1999), Anna (2001) and Oscar Schiff (2006). Until 1976 she worked for the newspaper The Tennessean .

On June 1, 2010, the couple announced the separation after 40 years of marriage.

Public activities

Tipper Gore (2nd from left) with husband Al (2nd from right) and the Clinton couple

In 1984 she helped found the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). The PMRC was a lobby organization that had set itself the goal of defending traditional family values, which they saw threatened by (rock) music, but especially by its lyrics. The organization was u. a. Responsible for the fact that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had to put the Parental Advisory sticker on recordings in the course of the 1980s, warning of clear language or content ( explicit lyrics or contents ). The aim was to enable the parents of the mostly young consumers of this music to control their children's music consumption. The best-known critics of the PMRC in general and Gores in particular were the musicians Frank Zappa , John Denver , Dee Snider and Jello Biafra , who described the demands as censorship and a violation of the 1st Amendment . The rapper Ice-T from the group Body Count also expressed protests that bordered on insult, for example in the song KKK Bitch he alluded to having fallen in love with Gore's 12-year-old nieces.

Since 2000, Gore is an activist in the field of mental health ( mental health act). In this context , she is criticized by human rights organizations for her ambivalent positions in the area of ​​involuntary medication and psychiatric treatment of patients who are described as "mentally ill".

In 2002 she was asked to run for the vacant Senate seat in the US state of Tennessee , previously held by her then husband . However, Gore declined on the grounds that it wasn't right for her at the time. In the same year, she and her then-husband published two books on Family Values ​​and the Transformed American Family , titled Joined at the Heart and Spirit of Family .

Publications

  • The great women photographers at National Geographic . Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-934385-07-9 (together with Cathy Newman )
  • Joined at the heart. The transformation of the American family . Holt, New York 2002, ISBN 0-8050-6893-7 (together with Al Gore)
  • Picture this. A visual diary . Broadway Books, New York 1996, ISBN 0-553-06720-6
  • The Spirit of Family . Holt, New York 2002, ISBN 0-8050-6894-5 (together with Al Gore)

Web links

Commons : Tipper Gore  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Al and Tipper Gore split up , Spiegel Online , June 1, 2010
  2. ^ Dee Snider's Statement on Censorship to the US Senate
personal data
SURNAME Gore, Tipper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gore, Mary Elizabeth; Aicheson, Mary Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wife of Albert Gore, former Vice President of the United States
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Orlando , Florida