20th Anniversary Repost: The Fetterman Correspondances

From the Los Angeles Blade, December 12, 2022: Meet the Bisexual Wife of Pennsylvania's New US Senator.

Sub-hed: When the Washington Blade caught up with Gisele Barreto Fetterman this month, she was looking forward to some upcoming travel plans

Yeah I'll bet she was!!!

When the Washington Blade caught up with Gisele Barreto Fetterman this month, she was looking forward to some upcoming travel plans.

First up is a trip to Washington in January to witness the swearing-in ceremony for her husband, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who was just elected to represent the Keystone State in the U.S. Senate after one of the year's most hard-fought midterm races.

Then, in March, she plans to visit family in Brazil for the first time since travel to her native country was restricted in the early days of the pandemic, and just in time to celebrate another electoral victory as Brazilian voters have ousted their far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

This bisexual girlboss lived as an illegal alien in the US for something like 12 years.

Regarding the right-wing attacks that were focused on her identity as a bisexual woman and immigrant from Latin America, she jokes, "they made me sound like a superhero."

She expounded upon her theories about how to honor and obey one's (yuch!) husband.

She also shares photos on social media with her 6-foot-8 husband's head partially cropped out so that her shoes are visible in the frame, and insists that their marriage operates with the unspoken understanding that Gisele is always right when there are differences of opinion.

On that latter point, should anyone long for the same dynamic with their spouse or significant other, Gisele Fetterman offers the following advice: "You just have to be really confident in your truth," she said, adding, "then you just, like, ignore him when he's speaking."

America's foremost Pompous Documentarian Ken Burns has been collecting the correspondence of John and Gisele Fetterman. He has shared with me their most recent exchanges, which I will now share with you.

I think you will agree that this love is a fire whose embers will smolder and glow throughout eternity.

You may find that John's letters are best accompanied with this musical accompaniment, and that Gisele's flow nicely with this.

posted by Lamont the Big Dummy at 06:30 PM

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