re: Ted Cruz announces candidacy.

"out of sight, out of mind." They didn't have to deal with it because there wasn't enough of an issue to address it.

I don't know how it started, but being gay is no longer universally shamed. I'd think that there were gay people in earlier times who simply married the opposite sex to have "normal" lives.

Using House of Cards as a political reference...Francis Underwood had some implied gay moments, but he is obviously married to claire for political purposes.