I and others have written about Hillary Clinton's almost choke like reflex when it comes to allowing the word "gay" to come from her lips. It's like the thought of uttering the word frightens her. John Aravosis was among those who have noted this phenomenon. Not surprisingly, gays and the LGBT communit continue to be invisible on Hillary's campaign website. Today at America Blog John has an update on this issue. As I have stated, if Hillary cannot bear to say the word "gay" in public, why do some gays foolishly think she's going to be forceful on gay issues? Here's what John Aravosis found:
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I wrote the other day about how Hillary seems downright afraid of saying the word "gay" (and don't even try to get her to say "lesbian"). I thought it might be interesting to see, in a real-world gay event, just how often Hillary used the words gay, lesbian and lgbt as compared to Obama. Well, what better event to test the candidates than the LOGO gay forum last August where all the Dem candidates were quizzed about gay issues. Here's what we found, in terms of how often Obama and Hillary used the following gay-related words:
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Obama: 7 gay, 5 lgbt, 3 lesbian
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Clinton: 2 gay, 1 lgbt, 0 lesbian
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So that's 15 references for Obama, 3 for Hillary. And notably, no "lesbian" at all for Hillary.
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