Presidential candidate reveals closeted history
Presidential candidate Fred Karger is the first political figure in the US who does not attempt to conceal his sexual orientation.
Sixty-two-year old Karger, who's the first openly gay candidate for president, has been stirring things up on the campaign trail this year, seeking the Republican nomination for president though another Republican Mitt Romney is on the ballot in California and Utah for the Republican primary.
Talking to NPR radio station, Karger answered a few questions about his dark horse campaign and what he really thinks about his rivals and not-so-gay-friendly politicians Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney.
"I'm the only alternative to Romney and I want to send a message out that the Republican Party has moved so far to the right, we need to include LGBT people, younger people, people who might not tow the party line. And I think that's an important message to get across. And then I head to Utah at the end of the week with a similar message. I'm going to fight until full marriage equality is the law of the land because that, to me, is our civil rights act and it sends that powerful message to anyone out there that you're equal to your brother, your sister or your best friend. And so I am now, I guess, angry at the way I live my life and I don't way anyone else to have to live the way I did for so long.
Fred Karger, who has kept his sexual orientation in the ‘closet' for 30 years, earlier worked as a Republican political consultant for Presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush Sr. he says that President Reagan was corporately more patient with sexual minorities if compared with the acting Republican leadership.
