Top 2012 Campaign Donor Also Gives Money to Gay Causes

One of the nation's biggest 2012 campaign donors, a gay Chicago man named Fred Eychaner, has given hundreds of thousands to both President Obama and tens of thousands to LGBT political candidates.

Mother Jones compiled a list of the 20 biggest donors in the 2012 election and only three of the 20 gave to Democratic PACs or candidates: Eychaner, along with Hollywood luminaries Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steve Bing. Eychaner -- with total contributions of $791,800 -- came in after Katzenberg and before Bing on the list of top left-leaning contributors in 2012. Fifty thousand dollars of that money went to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, an organization that works to elect LGBT candidates.

Mother Jones describes Eychaner as a former reporter and "reclusive media mogul" who made $420 million in 2002 when he, ironically, sold a television station to Rupert Murdoch. According to the Chicago Tribune, the 60-something Eychaner contributes regularly to gay and HIV causes and "drives a 1999 Ford Escort, flies coach, owns just three suits and sometimes stays at budget motels."

Click here to see where the rest of Eychaner's 2012 campaign contributions went.