{"id":1283,"date":"2008-02-09T12:59:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-03-13T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:48:22","slug":"why-does-hillary-attract-more-lesbian-and-gay-voters-more-than-barack-is-it-racism-or-some-other-bias-within-our-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/02\/why-does-hillary-attract-more-lesbian-and-gay-voters-more-than-barack-is-it-racism-or-some-other-bias-within-our-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Hillary attract more lesbian & gay voters than Barack? Is it racism, or some other bias within our community?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer<\/cite> does a good job exploring reasons for Hillary Clinton’s popularity among lesbian and gay citizens. In a piece called Why Barack\u2019s Mojo With the Gays Can\u2019t Match Hillary\u2019s<\/a>, Sean Kennedy writes:<\/p>\n

“First, there’s the record: As First Lady, Hillary marched in a gay-pride parade, and she has done so multiple times as a senator. She’s supported AIDS-care funding and an expansion of hate-crimes legislation. And after nearly running his first administration aground by coming out for gays to serve openly in the military, Bill appointed openly gay James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg in 1999 during a congressional recess. The Clintons just seemed comfortable around gay people<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

And he considers reasons for Barack’s failure to overwhelm lesbians and gay men:<\/p>\n

“Obama is handsome and well meaning<\/a>, but it’s hard for many gay voters to not also see just another straight guy with the messianic ego to think he deserves to lead. And then there’s the hard-to-shake perception that he might be somehow personally uncomfortable around gay people. As part of his building of a coalition of idealistic white liberals and black churchgoers, Obama invited gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who says his faith cured him of homosexuality, to perform at one of his fund-raisers (though he repudiated McClurkin’s views).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer does a good job exploring reasons for Hillary Clinton’s popularity among lesbian and gay citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[409,730],"yoast_head":"\nWhy does Hillary attract more lesbian & gay voters than Barack? 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