21 Highlights From The First Openly Gay Presidential Campaign!

Fred, the documentary following Fred Karger, the First Openly Gay Presidential Candidate, premiered at the Monadnock International Film Festival on April 4. Let's remember the highlights of Fred's historic campaign to win the Republican Presidential Nomination!

1. Fred made HISTORY as the First Openly Gay Presidential Candidate!

Debate is still out on whether James Buchanan was our first Gay President. ---- And there may have already been the first Closeted Gay Presidential Candidate.

2. OH and he was the first Jewish Republican Presidential Candidate!

OMG-D, I know what you're thinking, BUT Arlen Specter suspended his presidential campaign before any of the primaries got started.

3. Fred Introduced himself to RNC Chairman Steele as "The Gay Shirley Chisholm"

As you all know, Shirley Chisholm was a seven-term congresswoman who was the First African-American to run for President of the United States. She technically came in second place in the 1972 Democratic Presidential Primary.

4. Steve Scheffler, the head of the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, welcomed Fred by promising he would ABORT Fred's candidacy

AWWWKKKWARD ---- Good choice of verb. Oh and Fred received a lot of Iowa and National coverage about this scandal and Democrat and Republican officials came to Fred's defense.

5. Fred flipped Pork Chops at the Iowa State Fair like a Champ!

Unlike Mitt Romney, who dropped a pork chop on the ground, picked it up and put it back on the grill... RUH-ROH!

6. Fred's Response to calling Homosexuality "a Scam"

Jan Mickelson, Iowa's #1 conservative talk-radio show host, described Fred as "the Gay Rights Boogie Man of the GOP Presidential Race" and then stated:

"I reject the concept of gay, I'm not a heterosexual, I'm a guy, you're a guy, its a scam invented in the 50s by Kinsey."

7. Fred starred in one of the Republican Presidential Debates!

WHOOPS! Fred qualified for a Fox News-Iowa Debate, but Fox News kept Fred off the stage.

8. Fred Karger won New Hampshire's largest Straw Poll!

Fred beat out Mitt Romney by 5 votes!

9. Fred was the first candidate to file for the New Hampshire Primary... with a GIANT Check!

10. Fred bests Michele Bachmann in the New Hampshire Primary!

Fred got 138 more votes than Congresswoman Bachmann in the First in the Nation New Hampshire Primary!

11. Fred took on Rick Perry's Anti-Gay Commercial "Strong" with a Perfect Parody

You can relive Rick Perry's shameful ad HERE

AND watch Fred's parody commercial HERE

12. Fred was the ONLY candidate to campaign in Puerto Rico BLASTING Reggaeton from a Sound Truck!

Probably because the other campaigns ran out of GASOLINA!

13. Fred beat Ron Paul in the Puerto Rico Primary!

Fred won by 250 votes in the Puerto Rican Republican Primary!

14. Fred had the first EVER Gay Kiss in a Presidential Campaign Commercial!

Fred launched his California Primary campaign with THIS ad, Sexy Frisbee.

15. Fred NEVER Flip-Flopped on any issue, Unlike...

Fred Karger spoke out consistently for women's rights and LGBTQ rights.

16. Fred got along with Republicans and Democrats, just like his old boss, Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan worked closely with Democrat Speaker Tip O'Neill to get things done.

17. Fred tied and topped EVERY other Republican Candidate

in the national polls EXCEPT for Ron Paul & Mitt Romney

18. Fred's campaign NEVER went into debt, UNLIKE...

Two years after the Republican Primary, his competitors still owe millions of dollars in debt. Talk about Fiscal Responsibility!

19. Fred embraces all people, even those who call LGBTQ people... BARBARIANS

Even Perez Hilton said "OH MY..."

20. Fred was interviewed by Sir David Frost!

And Fred shared his historic candidacy on ABC News, CBS News, Rachel Maddow, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Thomas Roberts and Fox News.

21. Watch the documentary FRED and get an Inside Look at a very OUT Campaign!

The documentary by filmmaker John Fitzgerald Keitel and premiered at the MONiff International Film Festival in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Watch the Trailer for FRED here

BONUS: Remember when Fred got the Mormon Church convicted of 13 counts of Election Fraud because of the Church's involvement in Prop 8?!

Oh yeah, before he was Presidential Candidate Karger, Fred discovered how the Mormon Church orchestrated Proposition 8. He then filed the complaint with California's Fair Political Practices Committee that found the Mormon Church guilty on 13 counts.

BONUS 2: Fred has gotten the National Organization for Marriage investigated across the US for hiding donors.

NOM is the group that is LOSING the war against Marriage Equality.

BONUS 3: Fred is an expert Photo Bomber!

Fred mugs for the camera while Brian Brown, head of the National Organization for Marriage, is being interviewed. Smile Brian!