I feel I have a lot in common with Barack Obama. He's half white and half other, like many of you out there. In fact, his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, is a racial mix: half white and half Asian. He's the closest to many of us in age among all the candidates. He, you and I spent a lot of time in Asia (and Hawaii in his case) growing up. We identify with him in many ways.
But we, the queer guys, feel we have a lot more in common with Hillary Clinton. She's a working mom and always was; you are working dad - most of you I know are working daddies - just like Hillary. She's raised a lovely, grounded young woman, and I am striving valiantly toward that goal. Her husband, like yours, plays a wind instrument, although ours with somewhat greater proficiency. We identify with her in many ways.
Herein lies a problem the media tells me I've been grappling with: in a presidential race now fraught with racial and gender politics, with whom does a minority woman identify? Oprah's involvement in Obama's campaign could draw our votes his way, huffed CNN.com. Foxnews.com swears "Clinton Faces Tough Scrutiny Among Women Voters."
There's little data as of yet. Among the teeny tiny sample of minority women living in New Hampshire, the Zogby poll found
minority women say they feel more compelled to support Hillary Clinton because she is a woman candidate than they are to vote for Barack Obama because he is a minority candidate.
Both Obama and Hillary have yet to say to us this: "We are going to give LGBT full rights to marriage and equality"
But we, the queer guys, feel we have a lot more in common with Hillary Clinton. She's a working mom and always was; you are working dad - most of you I know are working daddies - just like Hillary. She's raised a lovely, grounded young woman, and I am striving valiantly toward that goal. Her husband, like yours, plays a wind instrument, although ours with somewhat greater proficiency. We identify with her in many ways.
Herein lies a problem the media tells me I've been grappling with: in a presidential race now fraught with racial and gender politics, with whom does a minority woman identify? Oprah's involvement in Obama's campaign could draw our votes his way, huffed CNN.com. Foxnews.com swears "Clinton Faces Tough Scrutiny Among Women Voters."
There's little data as of yet. Among the teeny tiny sample of minority women living in New Hampshire, the Zogby poll found
minority women say they feel more compelled to support Hillary Clinton because she is a woman candidate than they are to vote for Barack Obama because he is a minority candidate.
Both Obama and Hillary have yet to say to us this: "We are going to give LGBT full rights to marriage and equality"
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