CHINLE, Ariz. — Arizona state Rep. Arlando Teller says he was ecstatic when the Biden campaign asked him to introduce Cher at an Oct.
25 campaign fundraiser in Phoenix.“I was actually trying to be calm,” Teller told the Los Angeles Blade a few weeks later during a Zoom interview. “Inside I was a screaming queen, just giddy as all get about.”Teller said the campaign did not tell him the fundraiser’s location until an hour before it took place.
Teller nevertheless described hisexperience with Cher as “amazing.”“I opened for Cher,” Teller joked.Teller is one of six openly gay members of the Arizona Legislature.He was born and raised in Chinle, a town in northeastern Arizona that is in the Navajo Nation.