When will America be ready for a gay president? – Alex Andreou asks Michael Bronski

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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America’s presidents have generally been straight, white, old men. Barack Obama bucked that trend, but the United States is yet to have a woman or a queer person in the White House. In today’s Bunker, Alex Andreou asks Harvard professor, award-winning activist and author of the influential A Queer History of the United States Michael Bronski if the US is, or when it might be, ready for an LGBTQ+ president. • “While Pete Buttigieg may break glass ceilings, there may also be backlash against that, in the same way that there was a decade long backlash from the Republicans against Obama getting elected with the ultimate punishment being Trump.” - Michael Bronski • “We’re at a point in American popular culture where Ru Paul’s Drag Race is one of the most popular tv shows, and we have multiple movies about trans and non-binary people. So Americans can accept this as a part of popular culture, and simultaneously there’s a political backlash." - Michael Bronski Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.0	History will never be able to contain all of America, a great country, an evil country, a place of tremendous generosity and welcome, as well as a place of
1:26.0	pronounced disdain for foreigners and outsiders.
1:30.4	America is not one thing or another. America is queer.
1:34.8	Those other words of my guest an American academic and professor at Harvard,
1:39.1	an award-winning LGBT activist and organizer and the author of the influential A Queer History of the United States.
1:46.4	He is with me today to help me answer one simple question.
1:50.8	Is America ready for its first queer president? I am thrilled to welcome to the bunker
1:56.5	Professor Michael Bronsky. Thank you for having me. Michael, many listeners I think will
2:02.0	find this a fanciful proposition, but a significant
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