{"id":2385,"date":"2007-06-06T10:16:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T18:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/hey_bisexuals_exist.html"},"modified":"2007-06-06T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T18:16:37","slug":"hey_bisexuals_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/hey_bisexuals_e.html","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Bisexuals Exist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports that the first openly bisexual person since David Bowie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06062007\/news\/regionalnews\/bisexual_pol_wins_regionalnews_clemente_lisi.htm\">will be representing the Upper East Side in the State Assembly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An aide to City Comptroller William Thompson became the first openly bisexual member of the state Legislature last night after defeating his Republican opponent in a special election.<\/p>\n<p>Micah Kellner, a Democrat, took 64 percent of the vote to Republican Gregory Camp&#8217;s 36.<\/p>\n<p>Kellner, 28, a top aide to Thompson, has also worked for Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We campaigned on the issues and I really think that&#8217;s what voters responded to,&#8221; Kellner said.<\/p>\n<p>The special election in the 65th Assembly District &#8212; which covers the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island &#8212; fills a seat held for 33 years by Democrat Pete Grannis, who now heads the state Department of Environmental Conservation. There are currently four openly gay members serving in the Legislature.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re still waiting for a statement from <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/news\/sean-delonas\/\">Sean Delonas<\/a>, assuming he knows the difference between gay and bisexual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports that the first openly bisexual person since David Bowie will be representing the Upper East Side in the State Assembly: An aide to City Comptroller William Thompson became the first openly bisexual member of the state Legislature last night after defeating his Republican opponent in a special election. Micah Kellner, a Democrat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological","category-new_york_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}