Before Chrissy Gephardt came revealed as a lesbian and announced her support for her father.

Before Chrissy Gephardt came revealed as a lesbian and announced her support for her father, Dick Gephardt, in his pursuit of the Democratic nomination for the 2004 presidential election, there was Mary Cheney. When Dick Cheney became Bush's running mate in 2000 the media had to keep up his lesbian daughter.

to what degree did she feel, many marveled 'about her father's running onward a platform vowing to set against protections based on "sexual preference"? In an Advocate profile of Mary Cheney, journalist Sarah Wildman wrote of the inability to protected an interview with her.

"The silence is particularly striking for someone who until lately [as manager of Coors Brewing Co.'s corporate relations for the gay market] made her living doing outreach to gays and lesbians," Wildman noted.

In the article, Richard Socarides, former gay liaison for President Clinton and son of a leading proponent of "homosexual conversion" therapy, said that to retain from harming her father's campaign, Cheney might have to detain quiet about being a lesbian.

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