• PoastRotato@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The gay former transportation secretary

    What on earth does his sexuality have to do with this topic? Why bother mentioning it?

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        3 days ago

        I get it, it’s still jarring though. I get that an LGBTQI+ mag would want to promote his sexuality to prove visibility of senior civil servants or G-men or whatever the US calls them, but it just feels like a qualifier that shouldn’t be necessary.

        Happy to learn otherwise though, I’m open to opinions.