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Gay Maryland House of Delegates candidate Tim Quinn says most voters don’t know — or don’t care — that he’s gay.
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By: JOSHUA LYNSEN COMMENTS
 
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he said. “She’s going to have to start defending it.”
For his part, Quinn has faced some unfriendly voters. He said some people can’t see past his sexual orientation.
“I’m running into some kind of prejudices here and there,” he said. “Most of the time it’s not there, but once in a while it’s there.”
Willis said Quinn might be experiencing some residual bias from a 26-year-old scandal involving an Eastern Shore congressman.
Republican Rep. Edmund Bauman, a staunch conservative, was charged Oct. 3, 1980, with committing oral sodomy on a teenage boy in Washington. Voters jettisoned Bauman, a husband and father, from office the following month.
Quinn said most voters, though, don’t know or don’t care that he’s gay.
Even when Quinn references his partner, John Dodson, 38, most people assume Quinn, who co-owns the Legal Tavern Spirits restaurant in Easton, is talking about his business partner.
“Seventy percent of the time, that’s what people think,” he said. “It’s really quite comical.”
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