If there's nothing wrong with it then there was no reason for Kerry to bring it up.
I invite everyone to listen to the recording, and listen to how Kerry's voice drops on the word Lesbian. As if he's afraid of the word. And why would that be.
Kerry had plenty of other names he could have dropped to make a point or "humanize" the issue.
"My good friend Barney Frank would say..."
"Ask any of the Log Cabin Republicans that question and I would bet..."
Those are two examples of what he COULD have said if the motive was merely to make a human-interest point. He did not, and it was a repeat from the Silky Pony's clearly calculated political move.
These people don't realize they don't have Clinton delivering these lines any more. He could have pulled it off, maybe. But even he is more transparent after 8 years of "Is".