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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (28165)	1/15/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

That's just what they said here, Michelle, I couldn't say for sure. For indirect confirmation, there's this story from the NYT, 7/22/98. Maybe I should have added nonincumbent, though I can't recall any women in Congress coming "out", either. Gay Candidate for Congress Seeks to Overcome Voter Uneasiness Although she has never run for office before, Margarethe Cammermeyer would seem to have a resume tailor-made for politics: she is a mother of four, a nurse with a doctorate degree, a retired Army colonel and a Vietnam War veteran who won the Bronze Star. But the one thing that voters in this fast-growing district north of Seattle are sure to hear about Ms. Cammermeyer in her run for Congress is that she also is a homosexual. Or, as Rep. Jack Metcalf, the Republican incumbent, called her in a recent mailing, "a controversial lesbian." As one of four lesbians running for national office this year, Ms. Cammermeyer is trying to do something no one has ever done: become the first openly homosexual nonincumbent elected to Congress. I don't know what happened to Cammermeyer or the other 2. Here's another lead bit from a local story: Published on 11/04/98 BYLINE: Associated Press Election of Madison's Tammy Baldwin as the first open lesbian to Congress wasn't decided on sexual issues, but it means a great deal to gay rights activists nonetheless.