Meanwhile, another set of data shows an increase in the number of openly lesbian lawmakers in state legislatures. In contrast, only 25 percent of all state lawmakers, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, are women. But they gibe with some politicians’ sense that voters may indeed be more receptive, or at least less resistant, to lesbians than to gay men. She said lesbians don’t deal with anything precisely like “the long-dispelled shibboleths about gay men being sexual predators.”More gay men than gay women have been mayors — including, currently, the mayors of cities as disparate as Santa Fe, N.M., and Lexington, Ky. — just as more straight men than straight women have. “I think at the highest levels,” she said, “the woman thing kicks in and kicks us in the teeth.”And the gay woman thing?

Source: New York Times July 29, 2017 18:30 UTC