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“How Hillary Clinton
Helped Make Queer History in 1998
“She took a risk on me,”
said Sen. Tammy Baldwin
At the Democratic
National Convention in Philadelphia last week, Senator Tammy
Baldwin (D-Wis.), the first and only openly gay or lesbian
person elected to the U.S. Senate, explained in an interview with me
on SiriusXM Progress how Hillary Clinton, as first
lady, helped her make queer history as a House candidate back in
1998.
It was a time when it was
exceedingly difficult to run as an openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or
transgender candidate for national political office. While
Democratic House members like Barney Frank and the late Gerry
Studds, both of Massachusetts, had come out while in office and had
even been re-elected, no candidate who’d already been out, like
Baldwin, had ever been elected to national office as a challenger.
“Shortly after I won my
primary, [Hillary Clinton] came out to Madison, Wisconsin, and
actually stumped for me in what was a very competitive House race,”
Baldwin recalled, noting that their relationship went back to that
very day. “And I believe my narrow victory is at least, maybe in
large part, due to her research and her faith in a candidate who was
going to make history and, I hope she believed, also make a
difference.” … “
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