Alabama

and I shall never forgive the NYC current governor and his daddy, who's campaign for Governor against NYC Mayor Ed Koch stooped to unheard of levels that year.

I for one will never forget nor forgive nor vote for at any time the current NYC gov. because of that.

There was an extreme whisper camaign that year outside of NYC mostly, in non-democratic parts of NY State, that said "vote for cuomo not the homo".

people don't forget that were there.and we were reminded by none other than Frank Rich
in an article

Again, this is NOT right no matter who does it. Homophobia leads to Mathew Shepard like situations (the young man chained like a scarecrow to a fence left to die because he was Gay. NEVER FORGET)

the Frank Rich article recently reminding people of the Cuomo/ Koch race
http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/gay-marriage-2012-3/index2.html

It’s this atmosphere that explains why another woman of Miss America fame—Bess Myerson, who, unlike Anita Bryant, had won the crown—was dragged into a New York mayoral contest between two liberals. Koch was a Greenwich Village bachelor, at the time a scarlet letter of assumed homosexuality second only to being a hairdresser. Myerson was drafted as his steady campaign companion—if not a girlfriend, exactly, a hand-holding BFF—to stave off the accusation that dare not speak its name except in below-the-radar whispers. The Cuomo campaign did what it could to encourage those whispers by running ads trumpeting its candidate as a “family man.” As Election Day approached, posters of mysterious provenance reading VOTE FOR CUOMO, NOT THE HOMO appeared in Brooklyn and Queens.



Both Cuomos have long denied having anything to do with those posters. They could not, however, deny their ostentatious playing of the “family man” card. Whatever went down in 1977 was enough to move Andrew Cuomo to later apologize privately to Koch for the tone of the race. Asked in a recent Times interview if he believed the younger Cuomo was blameless for the homophobic posters, Koch said: “I honestly don’t know. I’d like to believe it. But I don’t know.”


-----------(longer article that is not pertinent to this thread, but will be posted at a later time in a 2016 race thread.)(just started a 2016 favorite save box for articles like this).