Democratic Atty. Gen. Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the office.
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- MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
- MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
- MASSACHETTS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE, GAY ERNOR OVER TMPIST OPPONENT
MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
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Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Tmp. Healey and Democrat Ta Kotek, a ndidate for ernor Oregon, each began the day wh a chance to bee the first openly lbian person elected ernor of a — elected eight years ago as the natn’s first openly gay attorney general — snapped what’s bee known Massachetts as the “curse of the attorney general.
A momento mood surround the guratn of Healey, who not only beme the state’s first openly gay ernor but also s first elected female ernor and part of one of the untry’s first female ernor-litenant ernor duos.
And gay rights. The Supreme Court overturned the law Healey appeared wh then-attorney general Martha Coakley after a hearg on the Defense of Marriage Boston Globe/Boston GlobeAfter the DOMA w Boston, Healey sudnly beme a very public figure the gay muny.
MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
But even ep blue Massachetts, was not that long ago that the LGTBQ muny was ls Barney Frank, the first ngrsman to voluntarily e out as gay, served as a state legislator the 1970s, he stayed the closet due to the “very powerful myth” Democrats and Republins alike believed that LGTBQ people were eventually created a plan to e out to iends and relativ, but then the ngrsnal seat opened up and he cid to n for higher office.
“There was no way I uld have gotten elected to Congrs if I was openly gay.
MASSACHETTS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE, GAY ERNOR OVER TMPIST OPPONENT
In 1980 she me out to her mother, who told her that beg gay would prevent her om ever holdg elected office.
“So to be the Hoe Chamber today, and watch the first woman be elected to be sworn as ernor of Massachetts, the first gay person beg sworn as ernor of Massachetts, I uldn’t help but thk about...