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Archive Home > 2013 > January > 26 > Being gay now less of a novelty in Congress

Being gay now less of a novelty in Congress

By Jeremy W. Peters / The Bulletin
January 26, 2013

WASHINGTON — When Mark Takano ran unsuccessfully for Congress twice in the early 1990s in California, his opponents tried to smear him as a “homosexual liberal" and a “nutzoid." One of them even had pink fliers printed that asked, “A congressman for Riverside ... Or San....

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