HuffPost Candidate Confessional: What It Was Like To Be The First Openly Gay Candidate To Run For Congress

For the latest episode of 'Candidate Confessional,' HuffPost spoke to Rick Zbur, who, along with three others, became the first class of openly gay candidates to run for congressional office. Zbur reflects on that run, what it said about America at the time and what it says about the gains LGBTQ rights advocates have made.

“It was a really different time,” he said. “It was really unusual to have an openly gay candidate.” On the press treating him as an anomlay, Zbur recalled, "Every newspaper article in Long Beach was 'Rick Zbur, an openly gay candidate.’ They couldn’t not ever say it.”

Listen to the latest episode of Candidate Confessional here.