Article: Father-daughter alliance: Chrissy Gephardt comes out to help get her dad, Rep. Dick Gephardt, elected president. Can she make him more pro-gay than he already is? (Politics).

Chrissy Gephardt is going where no child of a presidential aspirant has gone before--out of the closet and onto the campaign trail to talk not only about her father, U.S. representative Dick Gephardt, but also about being gay.

The 30-year-old is talking about how she figured out in 2000 that she is a lesbian: Gephardt's graduate school classmate (and now her partner) Amy Loder came out to her at a St. Louis coffee shop. Gephardt, who was married to physician Marc Leibole at the time, says she immediately realized her feelings for Loder, now 31, were more than friendship, and as a result, she threw up.

She's talking about coming out to her family--the ...

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