FRED WHO - PART 2

Margarita town halls. An anti-gay email that made national news. A presidential campaign with no headquarters. Fred Karger’s run through Iowa was anything but typical, and that was the point. Karger, the first openly gay Republican to run for president, joins Matthew Breen to talk about his 2012 campaign and how a long shot got noticed in a crowded field. New Hampshire was his priority, so why did he keep coming back to Iowa? He explains his crash course in the caucuses and how he turned ever...

In this episode of Fred Who?, Fred Karger sits down with Matthew Breen to discuss how he went from quietly considering a run for president to testing the waters for a historic 2012 campaign as the first openly gay presidential candidate. Fred shares how coming out publicly in 2006, his activism against Proposition 8, and his legal fight with the National Organization for Marriage helped push him toward national politics. He explains how subpoenas, legal defense fund campaigns, and early fundr...

In Episode 2 of this 10-part series, Fred Karger, the first openly gay U.S. presidential candidate, sits down withMatthew Breen for a powerful conversation about identity, resilience, politics, and the long road toward LGBTQ+ equality. From coming of age as a gay man in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s to finding his voice in politics, Fred reflects on the personal experiences and public battles that shaped his life. He shares stories of early campaign work, Hollywood detours, the fight against Cali...

Fred Karger made history as the first openly gay candidate for president of the United States. In this first episode of a ten-part series documenting his groundbreaking 2012 campaign, Matthew Breen interviews Karger about the final stop of that historic run: Utah. Karger explains why Utah became both a symbolic and strategic battleground, not only in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, but in his long fight against the Mormon Church’s role in anti–same-sex marriage effort...