Cassidy Uematsu was the first openly gay Republican of Japanese ancestry to be elected to the Colorado House of Representatives before age thirty-five. All these things were true about him, but until he’d read that description of himself in the free weekly newspaper that covered Denver clubs, trends, and politics, he wouldn’t have thought there was such a specific legislative niche waiting to be filled. He was also of Norwegian ancestry—he didn’t speak Norwegian, but his mom had lived in Oslo until she was a teenager, and growing up he’d understood well enough to know when he was in big trouble—but that hadn’t yet warranted a mention. Presumably, the young gay Norwegians had long since stormed the State house.
Whatever. Cassidy wasn’t afraid to play the diversity game. He knew he ‘looked
