Steve Gunderson

Steve Gunderson (R), US House of Representatives, Wisconsin. Photo by Ron Schlittler.

Steve Gunderson, (R) Born May 10, 1951 US House of Representatives Wisconsin

Career Overview Elected State Assembly, November 1974 Re-elected 1976, 1978 Elected to US Representative 1980 Re-elected 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992 Outed in 1994 Re-elected in 1994

Steve Gunderson was outed on the House floor by the famously homophobic former California representative Bob Dornan during the debate over the federal Defense of Marriage Act in 1994. After re-election that year, Gunderson decided not to run again. He and his then long time partner, Rob Morris, co-wrote a book titled House and Home published in 1997.

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