Md. could see nation’s first black gay state legislators
Anthony McCarthy and Mary Washington, candidates for Maryland House of Delegates, could become the nation’s first openly gay black state legislators.
Officials at the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, which recently endorsed both candidates, said a win by either candidate would be an unprecedented event. No openly gay black candidate has yet been elected to any state legislature, according to the Victory Fund. (more…)
On one hand I am told that a person’s sexual preference does not matter, but on the other hand it is shouted from the rooftops in cases such as this.
It is all about furthering their own agenda. If it put them in a better light then yes call me gay. When is something that the mainstream is trying to preserve (ie. marriage) then it should matter you sexual orientation.