{"id":10947,"date":"2018-06-07T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2018-06-07T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:37:53","slug":"madalenos-radical-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10947","title":{"rendered":"Madaleno&#8217;s Radical Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cc9ovvth3sY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Who knew a kiss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/maryland-gubernatorial-candidate-madeleno-tries-to-irritate-trump--with-a-kiss\/2018\/06\/06\/f7c833c0-699d-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html?utm_term=.d24dc5368351\">could be so radical<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Political advertisements rarely do something different. In public, straight people kiss all the time. In the media, they often do a lot more. For all the real and significant advances of the LGBT-rights movement, LGBT people are far more cautious.<\/p>\n<p>Even mainstream television shows with LGBT characters rarely show much basic, normal affection. <em>Will &amp; Grace,<\/em> which has two major gay characters, is practically the archetype for the absence of physical affection. (<a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2014\/01\/22\/finding\/\">Andrew Sullivan refers<\/a> to Will as the &#8220;eunuch.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Political ads take it to a whole new level. After all, political ads try to present candidates as wholesome, family oriented individuals. Candidates don&#8217;t want to threaten target voters but make them think he or she is &#8220;one of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By showing himself kissing his husband with his two terrific African-American children, Madaleno pushes the boundary &#8211; and not in a safe, made for cable series but in a political advertisement. It explicitly makes the case and challenges voters that his marriage and his family are just as good as anyone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Now THAT&#8217;s progressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew a kiss could be so radical? Political advertisements rarely do something different. In public, straight people kiss all the time. In the media, they often do a lot more. For all the real and significant advances of the LGBT-rights movement, LGBT people are far more cautious. Even mainstream television shows with LGBT characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madaleno&#8217;s Radical Kiss<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2020],"tags":[2207,1485],"class_list":["post-10947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-governors-race","tag-political-advertisements","tag-rich-madaleno"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2Qz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10948,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions\/10948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}