Just how bisexual is Gregg Kravitz? His political career may pivot on the answer. Kravitz is a 29-year-old former stockbroker from Philadelphia, who is running for the Pennsylvania statehouse. He claims to be a bisexual.
His opponent in the Democratic primary, incumbent Babette Josephs, says Kravitz is lying about who he sleeps with in order to curry favor with gay voters. Josephs claims she met a woman at a fundraiser who identified herself as Kravitz’s girlfriend. “I outed him as a straight person,” Josephs announced.
“I do have a girlfriend,” Kravitz conceded in an interview with The Daily Caller, “but I am a bisexual man, which means I am attracted to both men and women.” Kravitz says he has been involved with girlfriend Leah Greenspoon since they met on New Years Eve, and ultimately could see himself married to either a man or a woman. “I’m very happy in the relationship that I’m in, but it doesn’t mean you’re not attracted to other people,” adding that he’s “disappointed that I have to use my time and energy to respond to blatant lies about my sexuality,”
Kravitz won’t comment on the last time he had sex with a man, calling it “a private matter,” though he does highlight his “intimate relationships” with men when he gives speeches to primarily gay audiences. The burden of history, he says, rests on his shoulders. “I do recognize the historic significance that if elected I would be the first openly bisexual member elected to the state house. And there’s a huge responsibility that comes with that. I want to be completely open with how I am proud of my bisexuality.”
Proud perhaps, but also conflicted. Even as Kravitz and Josephs bicker in public over who is attracted to whom, both claim, virtually in the same sentence, that a candidate’s sexuality ought to be private and politically irrelevant. “My sexuality is not a qualification for office,” Kravitz explains moments after asserting its historic significance.
For her part, Josephs told The Daily Caller that she attacked Kravitz as a closeted straight man “to illustrate that it doesn’t really matter what your sexuality is — it’s your record of achievement and whether you can lead.”
So is his sexuality centrally important or utterly beside the point? As in his dating life, Kravitz resists firm choices. “If someone reading this was going to vote for me simply because I’m bisexual, I would rather them not to. Because the truth of the matter is that voters should vote on the issues that matter to them most. And again, frankly, I don’t feel like I should have to prove my bisexuality to anyone.”
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