Chrissy Gephardt, the daughter of Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt, has declared her lesbian orientation and support for same-sex marriage on network television.
In a "coming out" on ABC's "Good Morning America," Gephardt related how she realized she was a homosexual and the difficult process of coming clean with her husband and political father.
"I met this woman at school, Amy [Loder]. We were having coffee one day at a coffee shop in St. Louis and she said, 'Chrissy, there's something I need to tell you. ... I'm gay.' And my heart started racing," Gephardt said. "I felt like it was coming out of my chest. And I was like, oh, my goodness, that's it. That's exactly what this is. I have an absolute crush on her."
The 30-year-old said she kept her revelation a secret for a year.
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