Hillary Clinton Invited By Gay Couple In ‘Getting Started’ Campaign To Their Wedding
Featuring a gay couple in her campaign video titled “Getting Started” indicates Hillary Clinton’s support for same-sex marriage. As the video goes viral, the engaged same-sex couple featured in the campaign invited the former First Lady to their upcoming wedding.
Engaged couple Jared Milrad and Nathan Johnson are among the everyday Americans featured in Clinton’s “Getting Started” campaign video, which was posted on YouTube on April 12, Sunday, sealing her official announcement of her run for United States President in 2016.
Milrad took to Twitter to thank the aspiring first female U.S. president and to invite her to his upcoming wedding with fiancé Johnson. He tweeted, “Thanks for inviting us to your big day @HillaryClinton. We're returning the favor & inviting you to ours. #wedding.”
In an interview with the Washington Blade, Johnson said the decision to include a gay couple engaged to be legally married in the “Getting Started” campaign video shows Clinton’s “commitment to LGBT equality and the type of inclusive leader she would be as president.”
In the “Getting Started” campaign video, which runs two minutes and 18 seconds, Clinton declares, “I’m getting ready to do something, too. I’m running for President.” Two days since it was published, the video has been viewed more than 3.5 million times. Watch it here:
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