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“Sexual orientation shouldn’t be a barrier to participation in the public sphere. It’s a difficult issue for my opponents to try to use against me overtly without a backlash,” he says, “but there have been some jabs, insinuations and whisper campaigns.” – Colorado Congressional hopeful Jared Polis on today’s primary. If he wins, Polis has a good chance of being the third openly gay Congressman. He spoke with us last April. [Time]