“I’m very proud to be a gay woman. It’s part of who I am and it feels like I’m now in a position to be able to help the people of the state of New York.”
“There was an undercurrent of disgust,” she recalled.Richard Grenell, meanwhile, said he was the first LGBT in the White House cabinet, having served as acting director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration and president ambassador to Germany.He said conservative LGBT Americans “want freedom, safety and economic prosperity” like other Americans.
“How can she run with Lee Zeldin who is unquestionably a homophobe. Just look at his voting record,” said Allen Roskoff, president of the Jim Owles Liberal LGBT Democratic Club. “It is an outrage for Esposito to be on the Zeldin ticket. She’s allowing herself to be used to make Zeldin appear to be what he is not. She’s being used to soften Zeldin’s image.”
Responding to Roskoff’s criticism, Zeldin spokeswoman Katie Vincentz said he picked Esposito as his running mate “based on her vast qualifications while knowing she was openly gay.”