Is it a “Rainbow Wave” if the candidates are LGBT Republicans?

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Republican candidates for the state House of Representatives, from left, AJ Kerouac of Brooklyn, Ken Richards of Groton and John Scott of Mystic talk at Scott's home. Each sees Connecticut's financial crisis as its biggest issue, each is Republican and each is openly gay. (Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant)

Shortly after Ken Richards announced he was running for state representative, the 35-year-old gay Republican from Groton had an unsettling encounter with an old friend.

“He literally said to me…