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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• AM I GAY?
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY MAK REPUBLIN HISTORY

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Most are Democrats, and anti-Tmp fervor spurred many to Kirkpatrick for The New York TimThe number of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr elected officials has ntued to surge, growg by about 17 percent the last year to nearly 1, 000 natnwi — more than double the number jt four years ago, acrdg to a new annual ranks now clu two ernors, two Uned Stat senators, ne members of Congrs, 189 state legislators and 56 mayors, acrdg to the report om the L. Parker was one of the first openly gay mayors of a major Amerin is the fifth year that the stute has surveyed the natn, and total L. Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay or as gay women.

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Forty-six years ago, on April 2, 1974, out lbian Kathy Kozachenko was elected to the Ann Arbor Cy Council Michigan — beg the first openly gay person elected to polil office the Uned Stat. The acla of “first elected openly gay official” is often misattributed to Harvey Milk, the boistero gay in who was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.

AM I GAY?

“Harvey Milk was a very strong and vibrant gay activist, ” Kozachenko said, addg that Milk, who was assassated a year after his electn, was a hero and a martyr.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

“I am so proud of all the activists that me after me … The people that phed and phed and phed for gay marriage, the transgenr people that have phed for their rights... ”The Michigan-based, left-wg Human Rights Party, an early champn for racial jtice and gay rights, reced Kozachenko to n for cy uncil. ”Unlike most Amerin towns at the time, Ann Arbor was a liberal enclave, Kozachenko relled— not many people seemed to re if you were gay.

By that time, the Human Rights Party had already been succsful electg two members to the cy uncil: Jerry DeGrieck, a gay man, and Nancy Wechsler, a lbian, who were both graduat of the Universy of Michigan. ’”In fact, the party had so much succs champng for gay rights Ann Arbor that Kozachenko didn’t feel the need to make central to her agenda. That someone has n openly as a gay person and been elected to public office, ” Kozachenko said durg her 1974 victory speech, which was unearthed by Bloomberg.

OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY MAK REPUBLIN HISTORY

“Gay liberatn was not a major issue the mpaign — both ndidat this ward said they supported gay rights, but 10 years ago, or even three years ago, lbianism would have meant tomatic feat. Many people’s attus about gayns are still far om healthy, but my mpaign forced some people at least to re-exame their prejudic and stereotyp. ”After graduatn, Kozachenko moved to New York Cy, where she joed a group of lbian and gay socialists, and also volunteered for a group lled Dyk and Tyk.

“It was an anizatn that was helpg women who had e out after havg been married and had children, and their hbands were tryg to take their kids away om them for beg gay, ” she, a group of gay activists ved her to Ptsburgh, where she spoke at a rally agast anti-LGBTQ activists, cludg sger Ana Bryant. “I fell love wh the cy and basilly jt cid to move here, ” said Kozachenko, who still liv the Ptsburgh, she helped rec people to the 1979 Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, the first large monstratn champng gay rights the natn’s pal. Today, 855 out LGBTQ polil lears s elected office, acrdg to the Victory Instute, a nonprof that helps tra and elect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer ndidat.

“The people that phed and phed and phed for gay marriage, the transgenr people that have phed for their rights and for unrstandg of who they are. A gay elected official Arizona whose recent Zoom ll to a meetg received a lot of attentn bee of a person who showed up the background has explaed how the vio me to be, and acrdg to him, 's not at all what looked to some on the right who beme outraged.

We're not married, " he said that bee he is a sgle gay man, he often tak shifts around the holidays that his lleagu would appreciate havg off to be wh their fai. "Hez said he's an out gay man who's been nng for office sce 2006. Gifford, a gay man, announced his parture om State via Twter Monday, and shortly afterward, the Bin mpaign announced his new posn a prs release.

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