When I run for President
hahaha.
I doubt we will see it anytime soon, or even in my lifetime. I think the more daunting question is when will we see another white male enter the White House? I think now that African Americans have shattered their ceiling (somewhat, because I don't identify Barack Obama as an "African American" or a "black," he's mixed/mulatto whatever the PC term is), other minorities - Latinos/Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Jews, women - will want their turn to nominate someone from their community, and seeing as how minorities vote Democratic, I just wonder when the next time we'll see a white Democratic male as President? We can safely assume that the Republicans will always nominate white males seeing as how they compose 90% of their base. Our community will want our turn as well but right now we are more concerned with our own "agenda" of getting our lawmakers to give us equal rights, i.e. hate crimes, nondiscrimination in the workforce, ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, marriage equality, etc. When the day comes when we receive full equality and are not treated like second-class citizens is when we will try to nominate a member of our community to run for President.
Someone on here made a comment about how some gay men are conservative elitist snobs or something to the extent. They are a small minority in the community. Only about a quarter of our community votes Republican (which is like being black and loving the KKK or being Jewish and supporting Hitler if you ask me); they're referred to as Log Cabin Republicans, and even the national Republican Party tries to distance itself as much as possible from them. They're more libertarian than Republican because they obviously want gay rights and Republicans do not. But most of us in the community are not Democrats simply for the fact that Democrats don't tell us we're going to Hell and say they will give us rights; we are not single-issue voters.
I would certainly love to see someone from our community nominated as President, but there are currently only three openly gay members of Congress: Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), Jared Polis (D-Colorado), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin). Frank has too much personal baggage; Polis is young and Jewish; and Baldwin is a woman (not that there's anything wrong with being Jewish or a woman; it just may make it harder for them to get nominated in a society driven by WASP males). I do think my generation will be much open to the idea of electing members of the LGBT community to Congress, and we do need more.
