I wanted to draw a cartoon for Q Syndicate this week about Chris Pappas, the newly elected Senator from New Hampshire. Openly gay, he opened his election night victory speech by thanking his husband because of whom he considers himself the luckiest man in the world. I included him in a cartoon back when he was first elected to Congress.
And there didn't seem to be much else on which to hang a cartoon. His Republican opponent didn't run virulently homophobic ads or accuse him of being vegan. There are no photos of him as a leather model or Sister of Perpetual Indulgence, although his Republican rival when he ran for Congress in 2018 tried to make a big deal over his having worn a rainbow t-shirt with the word "Resist" at an LGBTQ+ Pride parade.
He seems about as Civic-Minded Student Body President Guy Next Door as they come.
So this week's cartoon ended up saluting all the openly gay Democrats in or heading to Congress. (Plus Pete Buttigieg, just because. I had originally included Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, too, but he got shoved out of the third panel by Congressmen-elect Wiener and Ford.) I'm overlooking some of the other colors on the Revised And Extended Rainbow Flag, so I promise to correct that next week.
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