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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: When will America be ready for a gay president?
Description: America’s presidents have generally been straight, white, old men. Barack Obama bucked that trend, but the United States is yet to have a woman or a queer person in the White House. In today’s Bunker, Alex Andreou asks Harvard professor, award-winning activist and author of the influential A Queer History of the United States Michael Bronski if the US is, or when it might be, ready for an LGBTQ+ president. • “While Pete Buttigieg may break glass ceilings, there may also be backlash against that, in the same way that there was a decade lo...