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.
MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
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.
MASSACHETTS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE, GAY ERNOR OVER TMPIST OPPONENT
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. 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. In 1980 she me out to her mother, who told her that beg gay would prevent her om ever holdg elected office.